Snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Women's slopestyle

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Women's slopestyle
at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Snowboarding pictogram.svg
Venue Genting Snow Park,
Zhangjiakou
Date5, 6 February
Competitors28 from 18 nations
Winning score92.88
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Zoi Sadowski-Synnott Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
Silver medal icon.svg Julia Marino Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg Tess Coady Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
  2018
2026  

The women's slopestyle competition in snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 5 February (qualification) and 6 February (final), at the Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou. [1]

Summary

Jamie Anderson won both previous slopestyle events at the Olympics, in 2014 and 2018, and qualified for the 2022 Olympics to defend her title. The 2018 silver medalist, Laurie Blouin, and the bronze medalist, Enni Rukajärvi, qualified at the Olympics as well. At the 2021–22 FIS Snowboard World Cup, only three slopestyle events were held before the Olympics. Kokomo Murase was leading the ranking, followed by Melissa Peperkamp and Reira Iwabuchi. Zoi Sadowski-Synnott is the 2021 world champion, with Jamie Anderson and Tess Coady being the silver and bronze medalists, respectively. Zoi Sadowski-Synnott is also the 2022 X Games winner, ahead of Jamie Anderson and Miyabi Onitsuka.

Zoi Sadowski-Synnott won the gold medal, becoming the first person from New Zealand to win a Winter Olympic gold medal. [2] Julia Marino of the United States and Tess Coady of Australian won silver and bronze, respectively. For Marino and Coady, this was the first Olympic medal.

Qualification

A total of 30 snowboarders qualified to compete at the games. For an athlete to compete they must have a minimum of 50.00 FIS points in Big Air or Slopestyle on the FIS Points List on 17 January 2022 and a top 30 finish in a World Cup event in Big Air or slopestyle or at the FIS Snowboard World Championships 2021. A country could enter a maximum of four athletes into the event. [3]

Results

Qualification

Q — Qualified for the Final

The top 12 athletes in the qualifiers advanced to the Final. [4]

RankBibOrderNameCountryRun 1Run 2BestNotes
112 Zoi Sadowski-Synnott Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 73.5886.7586.75Q
2610 Kokomo Murase Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 74.9581.4581.45Q
331 Enni Rukajärvi Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 66.7578.8378.83Q
444 Anna Gasser Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 50.7175.0075.00Q
525 Jamie Anderson Flag of the United States.svg  United States 74.3553.2674.35Q
6919 Julia Marino Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2.9171.7871.78Q
7817 Laurie Blouin Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 66.8571.5571.55Q
853 Tess Coady Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 55.9871.1371.13Q
9129 Hailey Langland Flag of the United States.svg  United States 28.3168.7168.71Q
101124 Annika Morgan Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 29.6167.6367.63Q
11714 Reira Iwabuchi Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 48.5167.0067.00Q
121928 Ariane Burri Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 33.1565.5565.55Q
131018 Melissa Peperkamp Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 61.2660.1861.26
141322 Evy Poppe Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 47.0856.8056.80
151420 Jasmine Baird Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 49.5014.4149.50
16228 Hanne Eilertsen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 48.3535.3048.35
171623 Courtney Rummel Flag of the United States.svg  United States 37.1848.3048.30
18176 Katie Ormerod Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 47.3844.0147.38
192013 Miyabi Onitsuka Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 42.6046.5846.58
202127 Bianca Gisler Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 40.3538.4340.35
21267 Carola Niemelä Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 22.3638.4338.43
221826 Brooke Voigt Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 37.1112.7837.11
231530 Cool Wakushima Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 34.46DNS34.46
242929 Urška Pribošič Civil Ensign of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 27.4832.0032.00
252811 Rong Ge Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 29.3613.0129.36
262321 Šárka Pančochová Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 25.5117.1825.51
272512 Lucile Lefevre Flag of France.svg  France 23.1621.9823.16
283125Kamilla KozubackFlag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 21.9519.5821.95
2715 Klaudia Medlová Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia Did not start
3016 Lea Jugovac Civil ensign of Croatia.svg  Croatia

Final

[5]

RankBibOrderNameCountryRun 1Run 2Run 3Best
Gold medal icon.svg112 Zoi Sadowski-Synnott Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 84.5128.1592.8892.88
Silver medal icon.svg97 Julia Marino Flag of the United States.svg  United States 30.6187.6860.3587.68
Bronze medal icon.svg55 Tess Coady Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 82.6855.9884.1584.15
486 Laurie Blouin Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 77.9646.7081.4181.41
572 Reira Iwabuchi Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 75.6080.0346.1580.03
649 Anna Gasser Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 35.0143.5875.3375.33
7310 Enni Rukajärvi Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 30.5171.4523.4371.45
8113 Annika Morgan Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 64.1331.0128.7664.13
928 Jamie Anderson Flag of the United States.svg  United States 22.9860.7836.8860.78
10611 Kokomo Murase Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 48.5049.0548.0049.05
11124 Hailey Langland Flag of the United States.svg  United States 32.0548.3529.9348.35
12191 Ariane Burri Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 21.4024.0118.8624.01

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