Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's giant slalom

Women's Giant Slalom
at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
VenueMount Yakebitai
Date10 February
Competitors31 from 14 nations
Winning time2:17.34
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Karine Ruby  France
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Heidi Renoth  Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Brigitte Köck  Austria
Snowboarding at the
1998 Winter Olympics
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The women's giant slalom competition of the Nagano 1998 Olympics was held at Mount Yakebitai on 10 February.[1]

It was the first time snowboarding was added as a sport at the Winter Olympic Games. The giant slalom was replaced by the parallel giant slalom event in 2002 in Salt Lake City.[2]

Medalists

Gold Karine Ruby
 France
Silver Heidi Renoth
 Germany
Bronze Brigitte Köck
 Austria

Results

Rank[2] Bib Name Nationality Run 1 Rank Run 2 Rank Total Difference
1st place, gold medalist(s) 2 Karine Ruby  France 1:09.33 1 1:08.01 6 2:17.34 -
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1 Heidi Renoth  Germany 1:11.92 5 1:07.25 3 2:19.17 +1.83
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 11 Brigitte Köck  Austria 1:13.01 7 1:06.41 2 2:19.42 +2.08
4 15 Lidia Trettel  Italy 1:11.68 3 1:08.03 8 2:19.71 +2.37
5 17 Ursula Fingerlos  Austria 1:12.37 6 1:07.99 5 2:20.36 +3.02
6 8 Marion Posch  Italy 1:13.32 8 1:08.02 7 2:21.34 +4.00
7 4 Dagi Mair unter der Eggen  Italy 1:13.35 9 1:09.07 13 2:22.42 +5.08
8 6 Isabel Zedlacher  Austria 1:11.89 4 1:11.03 15 2:22.92 +5.58
9 19 Sandra Farmand  Germany 1:14.39 10 1:08.71 12 2:23.10 +5.76
10 20 Marie Birkl  Sweden 1:15.99 13 1:07.92 4 2:23.91 +6.57
11 23 Cécile Plancherel  Switzerland 1:15.84 12 1:08.23 9 2:24.07 +6.73
12 12 Sondra Van Ert  United States 1:17.89 16 1:08.67 11 2:26.56 +9.22
13 14 Margherita Parini  Italy 1:21.42 20 1:06.15 1 2:27.57 +10.23
14 25 Heidi Jaufenthaler  Austria 1:18.43 17 1:09.51 14 2:27.94 +10.60
15 22 Shinobu Ueshima  Japan 1:16.88 14 1:11.17 16 2:28.05 +10.71
16 18 Charlotte Bernard  France 1:14.43 11 1:14.30 18 2:28.73 +11.39
17 24 Nathalie Desmares  France 1:21.43 21 1:08.42 10 2:29.85 +12.51
18 29 Renate Keller  Switzerland 1:19.48 19 1:12.32 17 2:31.80 +14.46
19 27 Małgorzata Rosiak  Poland 1:19.41 18 1:19.53 19 2:38.94 +21.60
20 28 Mariya Dimova  Bulgaria 1:23.31 23 1:19.53 20 2:42.84 +25.50
21 30 Marousa Pappou  Greece 1:33.55 24 1:22.98 21 2:56.53 +39.19
- 3 Isabelle Blanc  France 1:11.28 2 DSQ - - -
- 16 Polona Zupan  Slovenia 1:16.90 15 DNF - - -
- 13 Steffi von Siebenthal  Switzerland 1:21.93 22 DNS - - -
- 5 Rosey Fletcher  United States DNF - - - - -
- 7 Burgl Heckmair  Germany DNF - - - - -
- 9 Betsy Shaw  United States DSQ - - - - -
- 10 Lisa Kosglow  United States DNF - - - - -
- 21 Jana Šedová  Slovakia DNF - - - - -
- 26 Jagna Marczułajtis  Poland DNF - - - - -
- 31 Pamela Bell  New Zealand DNF - - - - -

DSQ - Disqualified; DNS - Did not start; DNF - Did not finish

References

  1. ^ "Snowboarding at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games: Women's Giant Slalom". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 14 January 2014.