Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics

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Snowboarding at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games

Venue	Mount Yakebitai (giant slalom) & Kanbayashi Snowboard Park (halfpipe)
Dates	8–12 February 1998
Competitors	125 from 22 nations
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Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Halfpipe	men	women
Giant slalom	men	women
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The snowboarding competition of the 1998 Winter Olympics was held at Mount Yakebitai and Kanbayashi Snowboard Park. The competition took place between 8 and 12 February 1998 and featured four events: Men's and Women's giant slalom and halfpipe.^[1]^[2]

This was the first Olympic appearance of snowboarding. Although a separate snowboard federation was established in 1994, the International Ski Federation brought snowboard under its jurisdiction with encouragement from the IOC.^[3]

Medal summary

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Medal table

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	1	1	0	2
2	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	1	2
3	Canada (CAN)	1	0	0	1
3	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
5	Norway (NOR)	0	2	0	2
6	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
7	United States (USA)	0	0	2	2
8	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		4	4	4	12

Men's events

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Giant slalom^[1] details	Ross Rebagliati Canada	2:03.96	Thomas Prugger Italy	2:03.98	Ueli Kestenholz Switzerland	2:04.08
Halfpipe^[1] details	Gian Simmen Switzerland	85.2	Daniel Franck Norway	82.4	Ross Powers United States	82.1

Women's events

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Giant slalom^[1] details	Karine Ruby France	2:17.34	Heidi Renoth Germany	2:19.17	Brigitte Köck Austria	2:19.42
Halfpipe^[1] details	Nicola Thost Germany	74.6	Stine Brun Kjeldaas Norway	74.2	Shannon Dunn-Downing United States	72.8

Participating nations

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Twenty-two nations participated in snowboarding at the Nagano Games.^[1]

Argentina (1)
Australia (1)
Austria (11)
Bulgaria (1)
Canada (12)
Denmark (1)
Spain (2)
Finland (5)
France (13)
Germany (8)
Greece (3)
Italy (9)
Japan (7)
Netherlands (1)
New Zealand (1)
Norway (7)
Poland (3)
Slovenia (1)
Slovakia (1)
Sweden (10)
Switzerland (12)
United States (14)

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Nagano 1998 Official Report – Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
^ "Snowboarding at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
^ "Olympic Snowboard: Snowboarding Debuts as an Olympic Sport". Official Canadian Olympic Team Website. Retrieved 24 February 2014.

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