| Date | 12 February 2006 |
|---|---|
| Status | Olympic |
| Location | Bardonecchia |
| Participants | 44 from 17 countries |
| Details | Gradient: 16° Length: 145 m Wall Height: 5.7 m Wall-to-Wall Width: 18 m |
By 2006, the best men’s halfpiper was acknowledged to be American Shaun White, who had already won six gold medals at the X-Games, both in slopeside and superpipe. With long, dark red hair, he cut a striking figure, and that and his big airs, earned him the nickname “The Flying Tomato.” In the qualifying in Torino, he struggled in round one, placing seventh and failed to get thru to the final in that round, which was led by 2002 silver medalist, Danny Kass. But in the second qualifier, White posted the highest score to make the final. In the final, White dominated the first run, with no judge’s score below 9.0. His 46.8 took a huge lead, and held up thru the second round to earn him the gold medal. Kass repeated his silver medal from Salt Lake City. Kass had struggled in the first run, but posted the best score in the second run to move up to second place. White was born with a congenital heart malformation, termed Tetralogy of Fallot (blue-baby syndrome), which required two surgeries to correct before he was a year old.
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Qualifying Round 1 | Qualifying Round 2 | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shaun White |  USA | 37.7 (7) | 45.3 (1) | 46.8 (1) | Gold | ||
| 2 | Danny Kass | USA | 43.8 (1) | – | 44.0 (2) | Silver | ||
| 3 | Markku Koski |  FIN | 20.2 (28) | 40.6 (3) | 41.5 (3) | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Mason Aguirre | USA | 43.4 (3) | – | 40.3 (4) | |||
| 5 | Antti Autti | FIN | 43.5 (2) | – | 39.1 (5) | |||
| 6 | Gary Zebrowski |  FRA | 30.7 (17) | 43.3 (2) | 38.6 (6) | |||
| 7 | Markus Keller |  SUI | 33.7 (12) | 38.3 (5) | 38.5 (7) | |||
| 8 | Christophe Schmidt |  GER | 39.4 (6) | – | 37.5 (8) | |||
| 9 | Vinzenz Lüps | GER | 33.9 (11) | 39.5 (4) | 36.8 (9) | |||
| 10 | Risto Mattila | FIN | 40.8 (5) | – | 35.8 (10) | |||
| 11 | Crispin Lipscomb |  CAN | 19.6 (30) | 37.9 (6) | 33.5 (11) | |||
| 12 | Andy Finch | USA | 43.1 (4) | – | 24.7 (12) | |||
| 13 | Giacomo Kratter |  ITA | 12.8 (36) | 37.0 (7) | – | |||
| 14 | Takaharu Nakai |  JPN | 36.0 (9) | 36.8 (8) | – | |||
| 15 | Jan Michaelis | GER | 34.5 (10) | 36.3 (9) | – | |||
| 16 | Brad Martin | CAN | 27.2 (21) | 34.7 (10) | – | |||
| 17 | Mathieu Crépel | FRA | 37.4 (8) | 34.2 (11) | – | |||
| 18 | Hugo Lemay | CAN | 26.0 (24) | 34.1 (12) | – | |||
| 19 | Gian Simmen | SUI | 32.0 (14) | 33.8 (13) | – | |||
| 20 | Janne Korpi | FIN | 9.2 (42) | 33.5 (14) | – | |||
| 21 | Justin Lamoureux | CAN | 10.1 (41) | 31.5 (15) | – | |||
| 22 | Fumiyuki Murakami | JPN | 27.9 (20) | 31.1 (16) | – | |||
| 23 | Kazuhiro Kokubo | JPN | 26.9 (23) | 31.0 (17) | – | |||
| 24 | Frederik Kalbermatten | SUI | 16.8 (32) | 30.8 (18) | – | |||
| 25 | Mitchell Brown |  NZL | 16.3 (33) | 28.3 (19) | – | |||
| 26 | Dan Wakeham |  GBR | 14.3 (35) | 27.8 (20) | – | |||
| 27 | Micael Lundmark |  SWE | 32.5 (13) | 27.2 (21) | – | |||
| 28 | Iker Fernández |  ESP | 27.0 (22) | 27.0 (22) | – | |||
| 29 | Michał Ligocki |  POL | 11.3 (40) | 26.9 (23) | – | |||
| 30 | Halvor Skramstad Lunn |  NOR | 24.2 (25) | 26.4 (24) | – | |||
| 31 | Mitchell Allan |  AUS | 28.8 (19) | 23.7 (25) | – | |||
| 32 | Andrew Burton | AUS | 15.2 (34) | 21.8 (26) | – | |||
| 33 | Martin Černík |  CZE | 18.3 (31) | 20.1 (27) | – | |||
| 34 | Xaver Hoffmann | GER | 22.6 (27) | 18.7 (28) | – | |||
| 35 | Domu Narita | JPN | 31.5 (15) | 14.7 (29) | – | |||
| 36 | Mikael Sandy | SWE | 19.7 (29) | 14.0 (30) | – | |||
| 37 | Yury Podladchikov |  RUS | 1.0 (44) | 13.6 (31) | – | |||
| 38 | Frederik Austbø | NOR | 29.2 (18) | 13.0 (32) | – | |||
| 39 | Therry Brunner | SUI | 23.0 (26) | 9.2 (33) | – | |||
| 40 | Stefan Karlsson | SWE | 11.5 (39) | 8.7 (34) | – | |||
| 41 | Kim Christiansen | NOR | 31.0 (16) | 5.1 (35) | – | |||
| 42 | Ben Mates | AUS | 4.9 (43) | 5.0 (36) | – | |||
| 43 | Manuel Pietropoli | ITA | 12.3 (37) | 4.1 (37) | – | |||
| 44 | Mateusz Ligocki | POL | 11.6 (38) | 4.0 (38) | – |
| Date | 12 February 2006 — 10:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Format | Top 6 finishers advanced to final. | |
| Judge #1 | Matthieu Giraud | FRA |
| Judge #2 | Marcello Centurione | CAN |
| Judge #3 | Kyoji Yokoyama | JPN |
| Judge #4 | Sami Savela | FIN |
| Judge #5 | Ola Sundekvist | SWE |
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Points | Judge #1 Score | Judge #2 Score | Judge #3 Score | Judge #4 Score | Judge #5 Score | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danny Kass | USA | 43.8 | 9.0 | 8.8 | 8.3 | 8.5 | 9.2 | ||
| 2 | Antti Autti | FIN | 43.5 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 8.9 | 8.6 | 8.5 | ||
| 3 | Mason Aguirre | USA | 43.4 | 8.4 | 8.5 | 8.8 | 8.7 | 9.0 | ||
| 4 | Andy Finch | USA | 43.1 | 8.3 | 8.7 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 8.6 | ||
| 5 | Risto Mattila | FIN | 40.8 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 8.1 | ||
| 6 | Christophe Schmidt | GER | 39.4 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 8.0 | ||
| 7 | Shaun White | USA | 37.7 | 7.2 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.1 | 7.7 | ||
| 8 | Mathieu Crépel | FRA | 37.4 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.4 | ||
| 9 | Takaharu Nakai | JPN | 36.0 | 6.4 | 7.3 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 7.3 | ||
| 10 | Jan Michaelis | GER | 34.5 | 6.9 | 6.6 | 7.0 | 6.9 | 7.1 | ||
| 11 | Vinzenz Lüps | GER | 33.9 | 7.1 | 6.3 | 7.2 | 6.9 | 6.4 | ||
| 12 | Markus Keller | SUI | 33.7 | 6.8 | 6.5 | 6.8 | 6.7 | 6.9 | ||
| 13 | Micael Lundmark | SWE | 32.5 | 6.8 | 6.4 | 6.6 | 6.8 | 5.9 | ||
| 14 | Gian Simmen | SUI | 32.0 | 6.2 | 7.1 | 6.3 | 6.4 | 6.0 | ||
| 15 | Domu Narita | JPN | 31.5 | 6.1 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 6.1 | 6.8 | ||
| 16 | Kim Christiansen | NOR | 31.0 | 6.6 | 5.5 | 5.7 | 6.5 | 6.7 | ||
| 17 | Gary Zebrowski | FRA | 30.7 | 6.3 | 6.2 | 6.0 | 6.3 | 5.9 | ||
| 18 | Frederik Austbø | NOR | 29.2 | 5.8 | 5.7 | 5.9 | 6.2 | 5.6 | ||
| 19 | Mitchell Allan | AUS | 28.8 | 5.4 | 6.1 | 6.2 | 6.0 | 5.1 | ||
| 20 | Fumiyuki Murakami | JPN | 27.9 | 5.0 | 5.2 | 6.0 | 5.9 | 5.8 | ||
| 21 | Brad Martin | CAN | 27.2 | 5.7 | 5.3 | 5.3 | 5.6 | 5.3 | ||
| 22 | Iker Fernández | ESP | 27.0 | 5.2 | 5.9 | 5.4 | 5.6 | 4.9 | ||
| 23 | Kazuhiro Kokubo | JPN | 26.9 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 4.6 | ||
| 24 | Hugo Lemay | CAN | 26.0 | 5.9 | 5.8 | 5.6 | 4.6 | 4.1 | ||
| 25 | Halvor Skramstad Lunn | NOR | 24.2 | 5.1 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 5.2 | ||
| 26 | Therry Brunner | SUI | 23.0 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 5.1 | ||
| 27 | Xaver Hoffmann | GER | 22.6 | 4.8 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 5.4 | 4.2 | ||
| 28 | Markku Koski | FIN | 20.2 | 4.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 4.4 | 4.3 | ||
| 29 | Mikael Sandy | SWE | 19.7 | 4.5 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 3.8 | ||
| 30 | Crispin Lipscomb | CAN | 19.6 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 4.3 | ||
| 31 | Martin Černík | CZE | 18.3 | 4.3 | 3.9 | 2.8 | 4.3 | 3.0 | ||
| 32 | Frederik Kalbermatten | SUI | 16.8 | 3.5 | 2.2 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 3.9 | ||
| 33 | Mitchell Brown | NZL | 16.3 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.6 | ||
| 34 | Andrew Burton | AUS | 15.2 | 3.6 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 2.0 | 3.3 | ||
| 35 | Dan Wakeham | GBR | 14.3 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 3.0 | 2.6 | 2.3 | ||
| 36 | Giacomo Kratter | ITA | 12.8 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 2.6 | 2.2 | ||
| 37 | Manuel Pietropoli | ITA | 12.3 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 2.3 | ||
| 38 | Mateusz Ligocki | POL | 11.6 | 2.8 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 1.5 | ||
| 39 | Stefan Karlsson | SWE | 11.5 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 2.0 | 2.0 | ||
| 40 | Michał Ligocki | POL | 11.3 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 2.7 | ||
| 41 | Justin Lamoureux | CAN | 10.1 | 2.2 | 2.8 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.5 | ||
| 42 | Janne Korpi | FIN | 9.2 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 2.4 | 1.3 | ||
| 43 | Ben Mates | AUS | 4.9 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 0.9 | ||
| 44 | Yury Podladchikov | RUS | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| Date | 12 February 2006 — 11:25 | |
|---|---|---|
| Format | Top 6 finishers advanced to final. | |
| Judge #1 | Matthieu Giraud | FRA |
| Judge #2 | Marcello Centurione | CAN |
| Judge #3 | Kyoji Yokoyama | JPN |
| Judge #4 | Sami Savela | FIN |
| Judge #5 | Ola Sundekvist | SWE |
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Points | Judge #1 Score | Judge #2 Score | Judge #3 Score | Judge #4 Score | Judge #5 Score | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shaun White | USA | 45.3 | 9.1 | 9.3 | 9.0 | 8.6 | 9.3 | ||
| 2 | Gary Zebrowski | FRA | 43.3 | 8.8 | 9.0 | 8.7 | 8.5 | 8.3 | ||
| 3 | Markku Koski | FIN | 40.6 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 7.7 | 8.3 | 8.0 | ||
| 4 | Vinzenz Lüps | GER | 39.5 | 7.3 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 8.5 | ||
| 5 | Markus Keller | SUI | 38.3 | 7.4 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 7.3 | 7.6 | ||
| 6 | Crispin Lipscomb | CAN | 37.9 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 7.5 | 7.4 | 7.3 | ||
| 7 | Giacomo Kratter | ITA | 37.0 | 7.3 | 7.7 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 7.7 | ||
| 8 | Takaharu Nakai | JPN | 36.8 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 6.9 | 7.2 | ||
| 9 | Jan Michaelis | GER | 36.3 | 6.8 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 7.4 | ||
| 10 | Brad Martin | CAN | 34.7 | 6.8 | 6.9 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 | ||
| 11 | Mathieu Crépel | FRA | 34.2 | 7.4 | 7.1 | 6.0 | 6.6 | 7.1 | ||
| 12 | Hugo Lemay | CAN | 34.1 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 6.6 | 6.7 | 6.8 | ||
| 13 | Gian Simmen | SUI | 33.8 | 6.6 | 6.7 | 7.0 | 7.2 | 6.3 | ||
| 14 | Janne Korpi | FIN | 33.5 | 6.9 | 6.3 | 6.2 | 7.0 | 7.1 | ||
| 15 | Justin Lamoureux | CAN | 31.5 | 6.6 | 6.5 | 6.9 | 5.8 | 5.7 | ||
| 16 | Fumiyuki Murakami | JPN | 31.1 | 6.1 | 6.1 | 6.8 | 6.6 | 5.5 | ||
| 17 | Kazuhiro Kokubo | JPN | 31.0 | 6.3 | 6.4 | 6.7 | 5.7 | 5.9 | ||
| 18 | Frederik Kalbermatten | SUI | 30.8 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 5.9 | 6.4 | ||
| 19 | Mitchell Brown | NZL | 28.3 | 5.5 | 6.2 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 6.1 | ||
| 20 | Dan Wakeham | GBR | 27.8 | 5.0 | 5.9 | 5.8 | 5.7 | 5.4 | ||
| 21 | Micael Lundmark | SWE | 27.2 | 5.4 | 5.6 | 5.7 | 5.0 | 5.5 | ||
| 22 | Iker Fernández | ESP | 27.0 | 5.8 | 5.6 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.6 | ||
| 23 | Michał Ligocki | POL | 26.9 | 5.2 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 5.0 | ||
| 24 | Halvor Skramstad Lunn | NOR | 26.4 | 4.8 | 5.7 | 5.2 | 5.0 | 5.7 | ||
| 25 | Mitchell Allan | AUS | 23.7 | 4.2 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 4.6 | 4.4 | ||
| 26 | Andrew Burton | AUS | 21.8 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 3.9 | ||
| 27 | Martin Černík | CZE | 20.1 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 4.8 | ||
| 28 | Xaver Hoffmann | GER | 18.7 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 4.0 | ||
| 29 | Domu Narita | JPN | 14.7 | 2.6 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 2.1 | 3.4 | ||
| 30 | Mikael Sandy | SWE | 14.0 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 2.0 | 2.9 | ||
| 31 | Yury Podladchikov | RUS | 13.6 | 2.9 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 2.8 | 2.4 | ||
| 32 | Frederik Austbø | NOR | 13.0 | 2.7 | 2.0 | 3.3 | 2.9 | 2.1 | ||
| 33 | Therry Brunner | SUI | 9.2 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 2.2 | 1.4 | 2.3 | ||
| 34 | Stefan Karlsson | SWE | 8.7 | 2.5 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 1.1 | ||
| 35 | Kim Christiansen | NOR | 5.1 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 0.4 | ||
| 36 | Ben Mates | AUS | 5.0 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.8 | ||
| 37 | Manuel Pietropoli | ITA | 4.1 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 0.8 | ||
| 38 | Mateusz Ligocki | POL | 4.0 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 1.4 |
| Date | 12 February 2006 | |
|---|---|---|
| Judge #1 | Matthieu Giraud | FRA |
| Judge #2 | Marcello Centurione | CAN |
| Judge #3 | Kyoji Yokoyama | JPN |
| Judge #4 | Sami Savela | FIN |
| Judge #5 | Ola Sundekvist | SWE |
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Points | Run #1 | Run #2 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shaun White | USA | 46.8 | 46.8 (1) | 26.6 (11) | ||
| 2 | Danny Kass | USA | 44.0 | 20.8 (11) | 44.0 (1) | ||
| 3 | Markku Koski | FIN | 41.5 | 41.5 (2) | 31.4 (9) | ||
| 4 | Mason Aguirre | USA | 40.3 | 40.3 (3) | 37.1 (5) | ||
| 5 | Antti Autti | FIN | 39.1 | 28.2 (9) | 39.1 (2) | ||
| 6 | Gary Zebrowski | FRA | 38.6 | 38.6 (4) | 29.5 (10) | ||
| 7 | Markus Keller | SUI | 38.5 | 29.3 (7) | 38.5 (3) | ||
| 8 | Christophe Schmidt | GER | 37.5 | 33.2 (5) | 37.5 (4) | ||
| 9 | Vinzenz Lüps | GER | 36.8 | 28.7 (8) | 36.8 (6) | ||
| 10 | Risto Mattila | FIN | 35.8 | 31.6 (6) | 35.8 (7) | ||
| 11 | Crispin Lipscomb | CAN | 33.5 | 23.4 (10) | 33.5 (8) | ||
| 12 | Andy Finch | USA | 24.7 | 9.6 (12) | 24.7 (12) |
