Snowboarding at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's halfpipe

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Men's halfpipe
at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Olympic rings without rims.svg
Pictogram for snowboarding
Venue Park City
Date11 February
Competitors34 from 12 nations
Winning score46.1
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Ross Powers Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg Daniel Kass Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg Jarret Thomas Flag of the United States.svg  United States
  1998
2006  

The men's halfpipe event in snowboarding at the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Park City, United States. The competition took place on 11 February 2002. [1]

The American sweep of the medal podium was the first for that country since the 1956 Winter Olympics, when they won all three medals in the men's singles in figure skating. [2]

Medalists

Gold Ross Powers
Flag of the United States.svg United States
Silver Danny Kass
Flag of the United States.svg United States
Bronze Jarret Thomas
Flag of the United States.svg United States

Results

The halfpipe event for men took place on 11 February 2002, both the qualification rounds and the finals taking place on that day. Fortythirty snowboarders took part in the qualification, the top twelve of whom move on to the finals.

In the qualification round, each snowboarder was given two runs to be in the top six of that run. Regardless of how many points the person received, as long as they placed in the top six, they advanced to the finals. If the person qualified in the first run, they did not need to do a second run in the qualification. The finals proceeded in a similar fashion. The twelve qualifiers had two runs in which to score the highest possible points. The snowboarders were ranked by their highest score, and medals were awarded accordingly. The following is a table detailing the results of the qualification and finals runs of the competing snowboarders. [3]

RankNameCountryQual. 1Qual. 2Qual. RankFinal 1Final 2Final Best
Gold medal icon.svg Ross Powers Flag of the United States.svg  United States 33.942.1946.132.046.1
Silver medal icon.svg Danny Kass Flag of the United States.svg  United States 36.742.7842.541.542.5
Bronze medal icon.svg Jarret Thomas Flag of the United States.svg  United States 19.743.5733.242.142.1
4 Giacomo Kratter Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 39.8-434.942.042.0
5 Takaharu Nakai Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 38.3-638.340.740.7
6 Tommy Czeschin Flag of the United States.svg  United States 41.8-240.640.540.6
7 Heikki Sorsa Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 44.2-136.840.440.4
8 Markku Koski Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 36.941.31039.025.439.0
9 Trevor Andrew Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 10.839.41130.338.638.6
10 Daniel Franck Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 39.9-329.237.437.4
11 Magnus Sterner Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 32.039.11236.617.936.6
12 Jan Michaelis Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 39.7-5DNS0.20.2
13 Therry Brunner Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 36.037.713-
14 Kim Christiansen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 23.337.014
15 Marcel Hirtz Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 23.835.915
16 Risto Mattila Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 35.734.316
17 Marek Sasiadek Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 18.834.017
18 Gian Simmen Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 34.833.518
19 Daisuke Murakami Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 19.432.719
20 Xaver Hoffmann Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 32.332.620
21 Sebastien Vassoney Flag of France.svg  France 13.532.121
22 Brett Carpentier Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 29.731.622
23 Iker Fernandez Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 31.031.123
24 Stefan Karlsson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 29.830.424
25 Tomas Johansson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 32.130.125
26 Daniel Migneault Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 19.228.726
27 Mike Michalchuk Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 34.828.627
28 Jonathan Collomb-Patton Flag of France.svg  France 23.928.528
29 Kentaro Miyawaki Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 13.627.029
30 Tuomo Ojala Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 28.223.330
31 Halvor Skramstad Lunn Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 30.021.731
32 Daniel Tyrkas Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 22.521.432
33 Mathieu Justafre Flag of France.svg  France 16.012.233
- Espen Arvesen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway DNSDNS-

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