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Snowboarding at the 2002 Winter Olympics

The 2002 Winter Olympic Games Snowboarding competition results were as follows.

Table of contents

1 Halfpipe Men 2 Parallel Giant Slalom Men 3 Halfpipe Women 4 Parallel Giant Slalom Women 5 References

Halfpipe Men

1. Ross Powers (USA)
2. Danny Kass (USA)
3. Jarret Thomas (USA)

The first time the Americans have swept a Winter Olympic event since the men's figure skaters did it in 1956. Powers, with a score of 46.1, dominated the competition. Kass and Thomas, in contrast, with scores of 42.5 and 42.1, barely beat Giacomo Kratter's score of 42.0. A crowd of about 16,500 watched.

Powers got a vertical of about 18 feet, and performed two McTwists, a cab 720 with an indy grab, a frontside 720 with an indy grab and a stalefish grab.

Parallel Giant Slalom Men

1. Philipp Schoch (SUI)
2. Richard Richardsson (SWE)
3. Chris Klug (USA)

Schoch's qualification for the last 16 was already remarkable, but is title is even more so. Chris Klug had a liver transplantation 2 years prior.

Halfpipe Women

1. Kelly Clark (USA)
2. Doriane Vidal (FRA)
3. Fabienne Reuteler (SUI)

Parallel Giant Slalom Women

1. Isabelle Blanc (FRA)
2. Karine Ruby (FRA)
3. Lidia Trettel (ITA)

Blanc edges her compatriot Ruby, the favourite for the gold medal.

References

• Halfpipe Dreams: A U.S. Sweep, A New York Times report on the American clean-sweep in the men's half pipe, February 12, 2002

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