| Snowboarding at the XII Paralympic Winter Games | |
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| Venue | Jeongseon Alpine Centre |
| Dates | 12, 16 March |
| Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Paralympics | ||
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| Snowboard cross | ||
| SB-LL1 | men | women |
| SB-LL2 | men | women |
| SB-UL | men | – |
| Banked slalom | ||
| SB-LL1 | men | women |
| SB-LL2 | men | women |
| SB-UL | men | – |
The Snowboarding competition of the 2018 Winter Paralympics was held on 12 and 16 March 2018 at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre in Gangneung, South Korea. [1]
Para-snowboarding is divided into three classification categories. [2]
The following is the competition schedule for all 10 events (five categories in snowboard cross and five in banked slalom). [1]
All times are local (UTC+9).
| Date | Time | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 12 March | 10:30 | Women's snowboard cross qualification run 1 |
| 10:42 | Men's snowboard cross qualification run 1 | |
| 11:54 | Women's snowboard cross qualification run 2 | |
| 11:59 | Men's snowboard cross qualification run 2 | |
| 13:33 | Men's snowboard cross 1/8 finals | |
| 14:05 | Women's snowboard cross quarterfinals | |
| 14:09 | Men's snowboard cross quarterfinals | |
| 14:27 | Women's snowboard cross semifinals | |
| 14:33 | Men's snowboard cross semifinals | |
| 14:42 | Women's snowboard cross small finals | |
| 14:45 | Men's snowboard cross small finals | |
| 14:49 | Women's snowboard cross big finals | |
| 14:56 | Men's snowboard cross big finals | |
| 16 March | 10:30 | Women's banked slalom run 1 |
| 10:45 | Men's banked slalom run 1 | |
| 11:42 | Women's banked slalom run 2 | |
| 11:57 | Men's banked slalom run 2 | |
| 12:54 | Women's banked slalom run 3 | |
| 13:13 | Men's banked slalom run 3 |
The ranking in the table is based on information provided by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and will be consistent with IPC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table will be ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won (in this context, a "nation" is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by IPC country code. [4]
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 |  United States (USA) | 5 | 5 | 3 | 13 |
| 2 |  Netherlands (NED) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 3 |  Australia (AUS) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
 Finland (FIN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
 Japan (JPN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 6 |  France (FRA) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 |  Austria (AUT) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Italy (ITA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 9 |  Croatia (CRO) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Spain (ESP) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (10 entries) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | |
| Event | Class | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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| Banked slalom | SB-LL1 [5] | Brenna Huckaby  United States | 56.17 | Cécile Hernandez  France | 56.53 | Amy Purdy United States | 1:05.40 |
| SB-LL2 [6] | Bibian Mentel-Spee  Netherlands | 56.94 | Brittani Coury United States | 59.87 | Lisa Bunschoten Netherlands | 1:00.04 | |
| Snowboard cross | SB-LL1 [7] | Brenna Huckaby United States | Amy Purdy United States | Cécile Hernandez France | |||
| SB-LL2 [8] | Bibian Mentel-Spee Netherlands | Lisa Bunschoten Netherlands | Astrid Fina Paredes  Spain | ||||
| Event | Class | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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| Banked slalom | SB-LL1 [9] | Noah Elliott United States | 51.90 | Mike Schultz United States | 53.42 | Bruno Bošnjak  Croatia | 54.08 |
| SB-LL2 [10] | Gurimu Narita  Japan | 48.68 | Evan Strong United States | 49.20 | Matti Suur-Hamari  Finland | 49.51 | |
| SB-UL [11] | Mike Minor United States | 50.77 | Patrick Mayrhofer  Austria | 51.36 | Simon Patmore  Australia | 51.99 | |
| Snowboard cross | SB-LL1 [12] | Mike Schultz United States | Chris Vos Netherlands | Noah Elliott United States | |||
| SB-LL2 [13] | Matti Suur-Hamari Finland | Keith Gabel United States | Gurimu Narita Japan | ||||
| SB-UL [14] | Simon Patmore Australia | Manuel Pozzerle  Italy | Mike Minor United States | ||||
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