Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's halfpipe

Men's halfpipe
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
VenueBogwang Phoenix Park
Date13 February (qualification)
14 February (final)
Competitors29 from 13 nations
Winning score97.75
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Shaun White  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ayumu Hirano  Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Scott James  Australia
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The men's halfpipe competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held from 13 to 14 February 2018 at the Bogwang Phoenix Park in Pyeongchang, South Korea.[1][2] The event was won by Shaun White, who previously won this event in 2006 and 2010. Ayumu Hirano, the 2014 silver medalist, took silver. Scott James became the bronze medalist. For James, this is the first Olympic medal, and this was also the second medal for Australia at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

In the victory ceremony, the medals were presented by John Dowling Coates, member of the International Olympic Committee, accompanied by Dexter Paine, International Ski Federation vice president.

Qualification

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Main article: Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

The top 30 athletes in the Olympic quota allocation list qualified, with a maximum of four athletes per National Olympic Committee (NOC) allowed. All athletes qualifying must also have placed in the top 30 of a FIS World Cup event or the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2017 during the qualification period (July 1, 2016 to January 21, 2018) and also have a minimum of 50 FIS points to compete. If the host country, South Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics, did not qualify, their chosen athlete would displace the last qualified athlete, granted all qualification criterion was met.[3]

Due to an injury, the 2014 Olympic Champion Iouri Podladtchikov was not able to defend his title. He was qualified but in Pyeongchang he decided not to compete. Podladtchikov crashed during the X-Games in January.[4]

Results

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Qualification

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Q — Qualified for the Final

The top 12 athletes in the qualifiers move on to the medal round.[5]

Rank Order Name Country Run 1 Run 2 Best Notes
1 14 Shaun White  United States 93.25 98.50 98.50 Q
2 13 Scott James  Australia 89.00 96.75 96.75 Q
3 7 Ayumu Hirano  Japan 87.50 95.25 95.25 Q
4 10 Ben Ferguson  United States 91.00 89.75 91.00 Q
5 8 Raibu Katayama  Japan 85.50 90.75 90.75 Q
6 5 Jan Scherrer  Switzerland 84.00 16.00 84.00 Q
7 6 Chase Josey  United States 47.75 83.75 83.75 Q
8 4 Jake Pates  United States 59.50 82.25 82.25 Q
9 15 Patrick Burgener  Switzerland 82.00 50.25 82.00 Q
10 1 Yuto Totsuka  Japan 80.00 65.25 80.00 Q
11 23 Peetu Piiroinen  Finland 14.25 77.50 77.50 Q
12 3 Kent Callister  Australia 66.75 77.00 77.00 Q
13 11 Taku Hiraoka  Japan 26.00 75.75 75.75
14 24 Lee Kwang-ki  South Korea 75.00 72.00 75.00
15 16 Zhang Yiwei  China 32.50 74.00 74.00
16 9 Tim-Kevin Ravnjak  Slovenia 72.50 27.00 72.50
17 2 Derek Livingston  Canada 71.25 32.75 71.25
18 25 Seamus O'Connor  Ireland 65.50 39.75 65.50
19 12 Markus Malin  Finland 30.25 63.50 63.50
20 29 Nikita Avtaneev  Olympic Athletes from Russia 63.25 32.75 63.25
21 28 Kweon Lee-jun  South Korea 58.50 62.75 62.75
22 27 Nathan Johnstone  Australia 62.25 10.25 62.25
23 18 Johannes Hoepfl  Germany 53.25 59.50 59.50
24 26 Kim Ho-jun  South Korea 54.50 10.25 54.50
25 22 Tit Štante  Slovenia 24.50 52.25 52.25
26 21 Rakai Tait  New Zealand 36.50 25.75 36.50
27 20 Elias Allenspach  Switzerland 23.75 25.50 25.50
28 19 Janne Korpi  Finland 4.50 22.50 22.50
29 17 Shi Wancheng  China 10.00 11.75 11.75

Final

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The final was held at 11:30 on 14 February 2018.[6] Yuto Totsuka was injured during his second run, coming down on the edge of the halfpipe and injuring his hip.[7] He was taken off the halfpipe by a team of paramedics and taken to a local hospital. As a result, he was unable to compete in the third round of the finals.

Rank Order Name Country Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Best Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 12 Shaun White  United States 94.25 55.00 97.75 97.75
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 10 Ayumu Hirano  Japan 35.25 95.25 43.25 95.25
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 11 Scott James  Australia 92.00 81.75 40.25 92.00
4 9 Ben Ferguson  United States 43.00 83.50 90.75 90.75
5 4 Patrick Burgener  Switzerland 84.00 51.00 89.75 89.75
6 6 Chase Josey  United States 87.75 52.25 88.00 88.00
7 8 Raibu Katayama  Japan 85.75 25.00 87.00 87.00
8 5 Jake Pates  United States 47.00 82.25 27.00 82.25
9 7 Jan Scherrer  Switzerland 31.25 80.50 70.75 80.50
10 1 Kent Callister  Australia 20.00 62.00 56.75 62.00
11 3 Yuto Totsuka  Japan 39.25 7.00 DNS 39.25
12 2 Peetu Piiroinen  Finland 4.50 12.75 13.50 13.50

References

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  1. ^ "Schedule". Archived from the original on 2017-11-05. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
  2. ^ Start list
  3. ^ "Qualification Systems for XXII Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang 2018 Snowboarding" (PDF). International Ski Federation (FIS). 9 September 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Snowboarder Podladtchikov kan titel niet verdedigen in halfpipe". NUsport (in Dutch). ANP. 9 February 2018.
  5. ^ Qualification results
  6. ^ Final results
  7. ^ Scott Davis (14 February 2018). "16-year-old Japanese snowboarder suffers horrifying fall in men's halfpipe and gets taken out on stretcher". Business Insider – via San Francisco Chronicle.
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