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

References

1. "2018 PyeongChang Paralympic Winter Games: What you need to know". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 14 February 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
2. "Österreich Journal". Australian Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
3. "Zimowe dyscypliny Paraolimpijskie". Polski Komitet Paraolimpijski (in Polish). Archived from the original on 9 February 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
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11. "Medals and Ranking — Men's Snowboard Cross SB-LL1". PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games. 12 March 2018. Archived from the original on 17 March 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
12. "Medals and Ranking — Men's Snowboard Cross SB-LL2". PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games. 12 March 2018. Archived from the original on 17 March 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
13. "Medals and Ranking — Men's Snowboard Cross SB-UL". PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games. 12 March 2018. Archived from the original on 17 March 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2018.