Snowboarding at the 2019 Winter Deaflympics | |
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Location | Province of Sondrio, Italy |
Dates | 13–19 December |
Snowboarding was one of the competitions held at the 2019 Winter Deaflympics . [1] Russia won most of the medals in the competition. [2]
* Host nation (Italy)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 19 | |
2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
Totals (7 nations) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Parallel giant slalom | Aleksei Kazantsev | Petr Lebedev | Danil Istomin |
Parallel slalom | Aleksei Kazantsev | Danil Istomin | Eduard Khaladzhan |
Snowboard cross | Tomáš Pazdera | Alexey Ignatenko | Stanislav Sokolov |
Slopestyle | Sean Esson | Stanislav Sokolov | Ilya Penkov |
Big air | Nikita Goryachev | Ilya Penkov | Sean Esson |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Parallel giant slalom | Anna Surmilina | Cecilia Hanhikoski | Maria Kapustkina |
Parallel slalom | Anna Surmilina | Cecilia Hanhikoski | Zhao Yueyue |
Snowboard cross | Margarita Noskova | Lisa Zörweg | Erica Dugnani |
Slopestyle | Lauren Weibert | Margarita Noskova | Ella Shevlyakova |
Big air | Margarita Noskova | Lauren Weibert | Lauren Benedict |
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