Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics - Snowboarding

The Winter Olympics are here, and that means Snowboarding is back on our screens!

You can view the schedule here. Snowboarding is on from 5-18 Feb 2026.

What is Snowboarding?
Snowboarding is a fun mix of surfing, skateboarding, and skiing.

In the halfpipe, competitors perform a series of tricks while snowboarding down a slope with a semi-cylindrical shape. They are scored on the breadth and difficulty of the jumps.

In the parallel giant slalom, two snowboarders ride down two parallel tracks at the same time. During the qualifiers, each competitor rides down the two tracks (blue and red) once. The times from each run are added together, and the 16 best combined times advance to the elimination rounds. The fastest athlete in each group automatically qualifies for the next round.

In snowboard cross, timed qualifiers are held to determine the top 16 athletes, who compete in direct races involving four athletes per group on a track with jumps, moguls, and wide curves. Each heat determines the best two athletes for the next round; this process continues until the final. c.

In the Big Air event, competitors use a ramp to make jumps and perform a series of aerial tricks.

In slopestyle, athletes snowboard down a course with different types of structures (including rails and jumps) and are judged on the breadth, originality, and quality of their tricks.

Very brief history of Snowboarding
Snowboarding has become immensely popular as a winter sport, making its Olympic debut at the 1998 Games in Nagano. Snowboarding was created in the United States in the 1960s, when social change and the search for greater freedom of expression, along with advances in equipment, led to the development of new ways to play sports on snow. In the 1970s, the production of snowboards grew, and the sport began to gain popularity among surfers and skateboarders. Snowboarders began to ‘invade’ ski resorts. The USA hosted the first national snowboarding championships in 1982 and the first world championships in 1983. The International Snowboarding Federation (ISF) was formed seven years later and the International Ski Federation (FIS) introduced snowboarding as an FIS discipline in 1994.

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Reply 20

Kallisto

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Medal ranking incoming!

Women's halfpipe:

:king1:

Choi (South Korea)
:king2:

Kim (USA)

Ono (Japan)

I am sure that a ranking for men is also already known. Add it later when I have found it.

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Kallisto

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Gold for Italy, silver to the United States aaaand... bronze to Germany in men's snowboard cross! :woo:

I add the ranking when I get the time.

EDIT: Oooops, it was not the final round yet. My mistake! :colondollar:

Reply 22

Geo Lover 7

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So proud of Huw and Charlotte in the Mixed Team Snowboard Cross.

Reply 23

Kallisto

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Snowboard cross, mixed team:

:king1:

Great Britain
:king2:

Italy

France

Gold for Britain! :woo:

@Geo Lover 7 hey, British team wins gold, what do you think? it is sublime, isn't it?

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Reply 24

Geo Lover 7

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Original post

by Kallisto

Snowboard cross, mixed team:
:king1:

Great Britain
:king2:

Italy

France
Gold for Britain! :woo:

@Geo Lover 7 hey, British team wins gold, what do you think? it is sublime, isn't it?

Yes, it's very good for GB. Our first ever gold on snow and first of 2 on Sunday.

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Kallisto

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Original post

by Geo Lover 7

Men's Big Air medalists:
:king1:

: Kira Kimura (🇯🇵)
:king2:

: Ryoma Kimata (🇯🇵)
:king3:

: Yiming Su (🇨🇳)

Just to complete the other medal rankings, here they are:

Men's Halfpipe:

:king1:

Totsuka (Japan)
:king2:

James (Australia)
:king3:

Yamada (Japan)

Men's Slopestyle:

:king1:

Yiming (China)
:king2:

Hasegawa (Japan)
:king3:

Canter (USA)

Men's Parallel Giant Slalom:

:king1:

Karl (Austria)
:king2:

Sang-kyum (South Korea)
:king3:

Samfirow (Bulgaria)

Men's Snowboard Cross:

:king1:

Hämmerle (Austria)
:king2:

Grondin (Canada)
:king3:

Dusek (Austria)

Women's Big Air:

:king1:

Murase (Japan)
:king2:

Sadowski-Synott (New Zealand)
:king3:

Seung-eun (South Korea)

Women's Halfpipe:

:king1:

Ga-on (South Korea)
:king2:

Kim (USA)

Ono (Japan)

Women's Slopestyle:

:king1:

Fukada (Japan)
:king2:

Sadowski-Synott (New Zealand)
:king3:

Murase (Japan)

Women's Parallel Giant Slalom:

:king1:

Maderová (Czech Republic)
:king2:

Payer (Austria)
:king3:

Dalmasso (Italy)

Women's Snowboard Cross:

:king1:

Baff (Austria)
:king2:

Adamczyková (Czech Republic)
:king3:

Moioli (Italy)

My pleasure to do this!

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