Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

The snowboard events at the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games will be held on March 12, 2018 and March 16, 2018 at Bokwang Phoenix Park .

History

This is the first time that the discipline is officially represented at the Games. At the earlier edition of the Games, snowboarding was included with para-alpine skiing events .^[1][2]

Program

Two types of events will be present:

• Snowboard Cross: competition where the people race against each other on a course with a whole range of obstacles: banked turns, rollers, spines, jumps, etc.
• Banked Slalom: competition whose competitors make the route through gates

Disability categories are either upper body (SB-UL) or lower body (SB-LL-1 and SB-LL-2). There are ten medals people can win. They are in SBX: SB-LL1 Men, SB-LL1 Women, SB-LL2M, SB-LL2W, SB-UL Men; BSL: SB-LL1 Men, SB-LL1 Women, SB-LL2M, SB-LL2W, and SB-UL Men.^[3]

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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

Women's events

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Banked slalom details	SB-LL1[4]	Brenna Huckaby  United States	56.17	Cécile Hernandez  France	56.53	Amy Purdy  United States	1:05.40
	SB-LL2[5]	Bibian Mentel-Spee  Netherlands	56.94	Brittani Coury  United States	59.87	Lisa Bunschoten  Netherlands	1:00.04
Snowboard cross details	SB-LL1[6]	Brenna Huckaby  United States		Amy Purdy  United States		Cécile Hernandez  France
	SB-LL2[7]	Bibian Mentel-Spee  Netherlands		Lisa Bunschoten  Netherlands		Astrid Fina Paredes  Spain

Men's events

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Banked slalom details	SB-LL1[8]	Noah Elliott  United States	51.90	Mike Schultz  United States	53.42	Bruno Bošnjak  Croatia	54.08
	SB-LL2[9]	Gurimu Narita  Japan	48.68	Evan Strong  United States	49.20	Matti Suur-Hamari  Finland	49.51
	SB-UL[10]	Mike Minor  United States	50.77	Patrick Mayrhofer  Austria	51.36	Simon Patmore  Australia	51.99
Snowboard cross details	SB-LL1[11]	Mike Schultz  United States		Chris Vos  Netherlands		Noah Elliott  United States
	SB-LL2[12]	Matti Suur-Hamari  Finland		Keith Gabel  United States		Gurimu Narita  Japan
	SB-UL[13]	Simon Patmore  Australia		Manuel Pozzerle  Italy		Mike Minor  United States