2018 Winter Olympics
SNOWBOARDING- Parallel Giant Slalom
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Thu, 22 Feb 12:27 19:27
- Men's Parallel Giant Slalom Qualification Run Thu, 22 Feb 13:21
- Men's Parallel Giant Slalom Elimination Run Sat, 24 Feb 12:15
- Men's Parallel Giant Slalom 1/8 Finals Heat 1 Run 1 Sat, 24 Feb 12:17
- Men's Parallel Giant Slalom 1/8 Finals Heat 2 Run 1 Sat, 24 Feb 12:19
- Men's Parallel Giant Slalom 1/8 Finals Heat 3 Run 1 Sat, 24 Feb 12:21
- Men's Parallel Giant Slalom 1/8 Finals Heat 4 Run 1 Sat, 24 Feb 12:23
- Men's Parallel Giant Slalom 1/8 Finals Heat 5 Run 1 Sat, 24 Feb 12:25
- Men's Parallel Giant Slalom 1/8 Finals Heat 6 Run 1 Sat, 24 Feb 12:27
- Men's Parallel Giant Slalom 1/8 Finals Heat 7 Run 1 Sat, 24 Feb 12:29
- Men's Parallel Giant Slalom 1/8 Finals Heat 8 Run 1 Sat, 24 Feb 12:38
- Men's Parallel Giant Slalom Quarterfinals Heat 1 Run 1 Sat, 24 Feb 12:40
- Men's Parallel Giant Slalom Quarterfinals Heat 2 Run 1 Sat, 24 Feb 12:42
- Men's Parallel Giant Slalom Quarterfinals Heat 3 Run 1 Sat, 24 Feb 12:44
- Men's Parallel Giant Slalom Quarterfinals Heat 4 Run 1 Sat, 24 Feb 12:52
- Men's Parallel Giant Slalom Semifinals Heat 1 Run 1 Sat, 24 Feb 12:54
- Men's Parallel Giant Slalom Semifinals Heat 2 Run 1 Sat, 24 Feb 13:04
- Men's Parallel Giant Slalom Small Final Run 1 Sat, 24 Feb 13:07 Men's Parallel Giant Slalom Big Final Run 1
- GOLD CZE Ester LEDECKA
- Silver GER Selina JOERG
- Bronze GER Ramona Theresia HOFMEISTER Ladies' Parallel Giant Slalom Big Final Run 1
- GOLD CZE Ester LEDECKA
- Silver GER Selina JOERG
- Bronze GER Ramona Theresia HOFMEISTER Finished Powered by Atos-Omega Powered by Atos Stina NILSSON
- GOLD GALMARINI Nevin SUI - Switzerland SILVER LEE Sangho KOR - Republic of Korea BRONZE KOSIR Zan SLO - Slovenia
"What is this sport you might ask well Snowboard racing can be done against the clock, or by two or more competitors racing in a head-to-head format. The current Olympic snowboarding racing events are parallel giant slalom, parallel slalom and snowboard cross.Snowboarding is a relatively new sport, invented in the 1960s and ’70s. The sport quickly grew and was on the program for the inaugural X Games in 1997. A year later, it made its Olympic debut at the Nagano Games with two events."
Gian Simmen (born 19 February 1977) is a Swiss snowboarder.In Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics, Simmen won Gold in Men's Halfpipe. He attended the 1998, 2002, and the 2006 Olympics Winter games.
Ross Powers (born February 10, 1979) is an American world champion halfpipe snowboarder from South Londonderry, Vermont. Though he originally rode at Stratton Mountain, Vermont,[3] his home mountain is now Okemo, Vermont.[4] Ross helps with the design of the Superpipe and also helped design the RossCross Family Terrain Park.Powers is one of the most high-profile figures on the halfpipe snowboard circuit. He regularly competes in such events as the US and European Opens of Snowboarding, the Vans Triple Crown (now known simply as the Vans Cup), and the X-Games. During the 2004/2005 season, Ross won the Mt. Bachelor Grand Prix event and went on to be the overall champion for the series.In 2007 Powers, shifted gears and began (or returned to) racing in snowboard cross. He had his 1st world cup podium in that discipline in Feb. 2009 at Sunday River Maine, and again in Dec. 2009 in Telluride, CO.
Vic Wild won a bronze medal in the parallel giant slalom at the 2013 FIS Snowboarding World Championships[1] and gold medals in the parallel slalom and parallel giant slalom at 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, which made him the first snowboarder ever to win two medals at the same Winter Games.Wild originally competed for the United States, but after the 2010 Winter Olympics, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association shut down its alpine snowboarding program. According to a 2014 story by Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports, Wild had been viewed by US snowboarding officials "as an enfant terrible, someone who didn't understand alpine's place in the [USA] snowboarding power structure. Halfpipe is king, with slopestyle creeping up in importance, and snowboardcross racing third."[2] One of Wild's former coaches indicated that before its closure, the alpine snowboarding program had a budget of $135,000, a fraction of the funding needed for an internationally competitive team.[2]