| Men's snowboard cross at the XX Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Bardonecchia | ||||||||||||
| Date | 16 February 2006 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 36 from 14 nations | ||||||||||||
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| Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics | ||
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| Halfpipe | men | women |
| Parallel giant slalom | men | women |
| Snowboard cross | men | women |
The men's snowboard cross event in snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Bardonecchia, a village in the Province of Turin, Italy. Competition took place on 16 February 2006. [1]
| Gold | Seth Wescott  United States |
| Silver | Radoslav Židek  Slovakia |
| Bronze | Paul-Henri de Le Rue  France |
All competitors raced two qualification runs, with only the best of the two times used in the final ranking. The top 32 of the 36 competitors advanced to the 1/8 finals. Struck-through runs in the table below represent the discarded time for a competitor. Only one snowboarder, Michal Novotny, had first run that was faster than his second run. [2]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Run 1 (time) | Rank | Run 2 (time) | Rank | Best time |
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| 1 | Drew Neilson |  Canada | 4 | 1:19.33 | 1 | 1:19.33 | |
| 2 | Marco Huser |  Switzerland | 2 | 1:20.26 | 2 | 1:20.26 | |
| 3 | Seth Wescott |  United States | 5 | 1:20.69 | 3 | 1:20.69 | |
| 4 | Tommaso Tagliaferri |  Italy | 9 | 1:20.93 | 4 | 1:20.93 | |
| 5 | Xavier de Le Rue |  France | 14 | 1:20.97 | 5 | 1:20.97 | |
| 6 | Dieter Krassnig |  Austria | 21 | 1:21.00 | 6 | 1:21.00 | |
| 7 | Nate Holland | United States | 3 | 1:21.03 | 7 | 1:21.03 | |
| 8 | Jordi Font |  Spain | 1 | 1:21.18 | 8 | 1:21.18 | |
| 9 | Radoslav Židek |  Slovakia | 36 | 1:21.19 | 9 | 1:21.19 | |
| 10 | Paul-Henri de Le Rue | France | 8 | 1:21.21 | 10 | 1:21.21 | |
| 11 | Lukas Gruener | Austria | 10 | 1:21.28 | 11 | 1:21.28 | |
| 12 | Damon Hayler |  Australia | 28 | 1:21.51 | 12 | 1:21.51 | |
| 13 | Mateusz Ligocki |  Poland | 13 | 1:21.81 | 13 | 1:21.81 | |
| 14 | Jonte Grundelius |  Sweden | 26 | 1:21.85 | 14 | 1:21.85 | |
| 15 | Jason R. Smith | United States | 15 | 1:21.98 | 15 | 1:21.98 | |
| 16 | Rafal Skarbek-Malczewski | Poland | 27 | 1:22.07 | 16 | 1:22.07 | |
| 17 | Hans Joerg Unterrainer | Austria | 12 | 1:22.10 | 17 | 1:22.10 | |
| 18 | Tom Velisek | Canada | 6 | 1:22.12 | 18 | 1:22.12 | |
| 19 | Stefano Pozzolini | Italy | 25 | 1:22.23 | 19 | 1:22.23 | |
| 20 | Jasey Jay Anderson | Canada | 22 | 1:22.27 | 20 | 1:22.27 | |
| 21 | Ueli Kestenholz | Switzerland | 11 | 1:22.32 | 21 | 1:22.32 | |
| 22 | Alberto Schiavon | Italy | 30 | 1:22.38 | 22 | 1:22.38 | |
| 23 | Michael Layer |  Germany | 19 | 1:22.43 | 23 | 1:22.43 | |
| 24 | Mattias Blomberg | Sweden | 20 | 1:22.48 | 24 | 1:22.48 | |
| 25 | Sylvain Duclos | France | 18 | 1:22.55 | 25 | 1:22.55 | |
| 26 | Mario Fuchs | Austria | 29 | 1:22.60 | 26 | 1:22.60 | |
| 27 | Itaru Chimura |  Japan | 32 | 1:22.83 | 27 | 1:22.83 | |
| 28 | Michal Novotny |  Czech Republic | 1:22.92 | 7 | 34 | 1:22.92 | |
| 29 | Graham Watanabe | United States | 31 | 1:22.98 | 28 | 1:22.98 | |
| 30 | Francois Boivin | Canada | 16 | 1:23.17 | 29 | 1:23.17 | |
| 31 | David Speiser | Germany | 24 | 1:23.38 | 30 | 1:23.38 | |
| 31 | Jonatan Johansson | Sweden | 34 | 1:23.38 | 30 | 1:23.38 | |
| 33 | Simone Malusa | Italy | 23 | 1:23.53 | 32 | 1:23.53 | |
| 34 | Ibón Idigoras | Spain | 17 | 1:23.56 | 33 | 1:23.56 | |
| 35 | Pierre Vaultier | France | 35 | 1:23.75 | 35 | 1:23.75 | |
| 36 | Alex Kupprion | Germany | 33 | 1:24.66 | 36 | 1:24.66 |
The top 32 qualifiers advanced to the 1/8 round. From here, they participated in four-person elimination races, with the top two from each race advancing.
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The four semifinalists who failed to advanced to the big final competed in the small final to determine 5th through 8th places. The four last place finishers in the quarterfinals contested a 13th–16th classification race, while the third-placed finishers raced for 9th through 13th. [2]
| Seed | Name | Rank |
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| 3 | Seth Wescott (USA) |  |
| 9 | Radoslav Židek (SVK) |  |
| 10 | Paul-Henri de Le Rue (FRA) |  |
| 8 | Jordi Font (ESP) | 4 |
| Seed | Name | Rank |
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| 20 | Jasey Jay Anderson (CAN) | 5 |
| 15 | Jason R. Smith (USA) | 6 |
| 12 | Damon Hayler (AUS) | 7 |
| 6 | Dieter Krassnig (AUT) | 8 |
| Seed | Name | Rank |
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| 2 | Marco Huser (SUI) | 9 |
| 30 | Francois Boivin (CAN) | 10 |
| 4 | Tommaso Tagliaferri (ITA) | 11 |
| 32 | Jonatan Johansson (SWE) | 12 |
| Seed | Name | Rank |
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| 28 | Michal Novotny (CZE) | 13 |
| 7 | Nate Holland (USA) | 14 |
| 17 | Hans Joerg Unterrainer (AUT) | 15 |
| 27 | Itaru Chimura (JPN) | 16 |
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