Women's big air at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Big Air Shougang, Beijing | ||||||||||||
Date | 14, 15 February | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 29 from 21 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 185.50 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics | |||
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Qualification | |||
Big air | men | women | |
Halfpipe | men | women | |
Parallel giant slalom | men | women | |
Slopestyle | men | women | |
Snowboard cross | men | women | |
Snowboard cross team | mixed | ||
The women's big air competition in snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 14 February (qualification) and 15 February (final), at the Big Air Shougang in Beijing. [1] Anna Gasser of Austria won the event, successfully defending her 2018 title. Zoi Sadowski-Synnott of New Zealand won the silver medal, and Kokomo Murase of Japan bronze, her first Olympic medal.
The 2018 silver medalist, Jamie Anderson, twice Olympic champion in slopestyle, and the bronze medalist, Sadowski-Synnott, qualified as well. Andreson did not qualify for the finals. At the 2021–22 FIS Snowboard World Cup, only two big air events were held before the Olympics. Gasser was second in both, and was leading the ranking, followed by Reira Iwabuchi and Murase. Laurie Blouin was the 2021 world champion, with Sadowski-Synnott and Miyabi Onitsuka being the silver and bronze medalists, respectively. Sadowski-Synnott was the 2021 X-Games winner, ahead of Anderson and Onitsuka.
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 January 17, 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. [2]
The top 12 athletes in the qualifiers advanced to the Final. [3]
Rank | Bib | Order | Name | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Total | Notes |
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1 | 2 | 4 | Zoi Sadowski-Synnott | New Zealand | 85.50 | 62.25 | 91.00 | 176.50 | Q |
2 | 6 | 17 | Kokomo Murase | Japan | 85.00 | 72.75 | 86.00 | 171.00 | Q |
3 | 3 | 2 | Reira Iwabuchi | Japan | 83.00 | 75.50 | 11.75 | 158.50 | Q |
4 | 9 | 14 | Laurie Blouin | Canada | 68.00 | 67.25 | 88.25 | 156.25 | Q |
5 | 1 | 1 | Miyabi Onitsuka | Japan | 80.75 | 72.25 | 73.50 | 154.25 | Q |
6 | 7 | 24 | Anna Gasser | Austria | 73.25 | 62.25 | 80.25 | 153.50 | Q |
7 | 8 | 15 | Tess Coady | Australia | 74.00 | 54.75 | 62.25 | 136.25 | Q |
8 | 11 | 25 | Annika Morgan | Germany | 12.00 | 64.25 | 68.00 | 132.25 | Q |
9 | 30 | 13 | Rong Ge | China | 10.75 | 64.00 | 65.75 | 129.75 | Q |
10 | 17 | 18 | Jasmine Baird | Canada | 69.00 | 60.50 | 69.00 | 129.50 | Q |
11 | 13 | 8 | Melissa Peperkamp | Netherlands | 60.00 | 68.25 | 58.00 | 128.25 | Q |
12 | 15 | 19 | Hailey Langland | United States | 62.00 | 65.50 | 21.25 | 127.50 | Q |
13 | 23 | 9 | Bianca Gisler | Switzerland | 50.00 | 63.50 | 63.75 | 127.25 | |
14 | 20 | 11 | Šárka Pančochová | Czech Republic | 20.75 | 62.75 | 60.25 | 123.00 | |
15 | 4 | 5 | Jamie Anderson | United States | 30.00 | 29.50 | 89.75 | 119.75 | |
16 | 22 | 10 | Klaudia Medlová | Slovakia | 62.25 | 51.00 | 29.75 | 113.25 | |
17 | 31 | 12 | Kamilla Kozuback | Hungary | 51.50 | 5.50 | 59.00 | 110.50 | |
18 | 26 | 20 | Urška Pribošič | Slovenia | 43.00 | 25.75 | 63.75 | 106.75 | |
19 | 19 | 28 | Courtney Rummel | United States | 44.75 | 56.25 | 38.75 | 101.00 | |
20 | 28 | 6 | Carola Niemelä | Finland | 12.75 | 58.50 | 42.25 | 100.75 | |
21 | 10 | 22 | Brooke Voigt | Canada | 65.00 | 31.00 | 17.50 | 96.00 | |
22 | 5 | 3 | Enni Rukajärvi | Finland | 25.75 | 17.25 | 63.50 | 89.25 | |
23 | 21 | 16 | Ariane Burri | Switzerland | 57.75 | 18.75 | 27.25 | 85.00 | |
24 | 16 | 30 | Evy Poppe | Belgium | 44.00 | 60.75 | 21.00 | 81.75 | |
25 | 14 | 27 | Katie Ormerod | Great Britain | 14.75 | 60.25 | 9.50 | 69.75 | |
26 | 24 | 7 | Ekaterina Kosova | ROC | 17.00 | 46.00 | 10.50 | 63.00 | |
27 | 25 | 29 | Hanne Eilertsen | Norway | 39.75 | 17.50 | 12.75 | 57.25 | |
28 | 29 | 26 | Lea Jugovac | Croatia | 9.25 | 15.00 | 10.00 | 24.25 | |
29 | 27 | 21 | Lucile Lefevre | France | 19.00 | 15.00 | 20.00 | 20.00 | |
12 | 23 | Julia Marino | United States | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS |
Rank | Bib | Order | Name | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Total |
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7 | 7 | Anna Gasser | Austria | 90.00 | 86.75 | 95.50 | 185.50 | |
2 | 12 | Zoi Sadowski-Synnott | New Zealand | 93.25 | 83.75 | 30.25 | 177.00 | |
6 | 11 | Kokomo Murase | Japan | 80.00 | 91.50 | 12.00 | 171.50 | |
4 | 3 | 10 | Reira Iwabuchi | Japan | 83.75 | 82.25 | 37.00 | 166.00 |
5 | 30 | 4 | Rong Ge | China | 29.00 | 85.75 | 74.25 | 160.00 |
6 | 13 | 2 | Melissa Peperkamp | Netherlands | 64.25 | 72.00 | 69.75 | 141.75 |
7 | 17 | 3 | Jasmine Baird | Canada | 68.75 | 48.75 | 61.25 | 130.00 |
8 | 9 | 9 | Laurie Blouin | Canada | 13.50 | 86.25 | 28.75 | 115.00 |
9 | 8 | 6 | Tess Coady | Australia | 85.00 | 29.75 | 8.50 | 114.75 |
10 | 11 | 5 | Annika Morgan | Germany | 15.50 | 73.50 | 14.50 | 88.00 |
11 | 1 | 8 | Miyabi Onitsuka | Japan | 9.50 | 54.50 | 10.75 | 65.25 |
12 | 15 | 1 | Hailey Langland | United States | 25.25 | 31.00 | 22.25 | 56.25 |
Anna Gasser is an Austrian snowboarder, competing in slopestyle and big air. She lives in Millstatt. She is the 2018 and 2022 Olympic Champion in Big air.
Laurie Blouin is a Canadian freestyle snowboarder. She is the reigning FIS World Champion in slopestyle, winning the gold at the 2017 World Championships. Blouin won a silver medal in slopestyle at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
New Zealand competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from 9 to 25 February 2018. The team consisted of 21 athletes, 17 men and 4 women, across five sports.
Zoi Katherine Sadowski-Synnott is a New Zealand snowboarder, specialising in slopestyle and big air competitions. She won the gold medal in the women's slopestyle and silver in the big air at the 2022 Winter Olympics, becoming New Zealand's first gold medallist and first to win multiple medals at the Winter Olympics. She also won the bronze medal in the women's big air at the 2018 Winter Olympics, and won the women's slopestyle title at the 2019 World Championships.
The women's slopestyle competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 12 February 2018 at the Bogwang Phoenix Park in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Tess Coady is an Australian snowboarder from Melbourne who won bronze in the slopestyle event at the 2022 Winter Olympics. She also won a bronze medal in slopestyle at the 2021 FIS Snowboard World Championships, and a bronze medal in big air at the 2023 world championships.
New Zealand competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022. The New Zealand team consisted of 15 athletes—nine men and six women—who competed in five sports. Selection of the New Zealand team was the responsibility of the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC).
These are the qualification rules and the quota allocation for the snowboarding events at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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