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Cross, Men

Date16 February 2006
StatusOlympic
LocationBardonecchia
Participants36 from 14 countries
Course SetterAlex HöllerSUI
Course BuilderJeff IhaksiCAN
DetailsFeatures: 38
Start Altitude: 1580 m
Vertical Drop: 213 m

A popular snowboarding event, which had been highlighted during ESPN’s X-Games, boardercross consists of several boarders (usually four) competing on the same race course at the same time, in a match racing format. For the Olympics, 36 boarders started, with 32 advancing to the match racing and the eighth-finals. In the match racing, the top two racers in each heat moved on to the next round. The qualifying round consisted of two runs, with the best run of the two used to determine placements. Drew Neilson (CAN) led the qualifying but in round one of match racing, he placed only third in the first heat and did not advance. Semi-final two matched three Americans and France’s Paul-Henri De Le Rue, with Delerue and Seth Wescott advancing to the final. The other surviving semi-finalists were Slovakian Radoslav Židek and Spain’s Jordi Font. The final was won comfortably by Wescott, with Židek second, giving Slovakia its first every medal at the Olympic Winter Games. The consolation final was won by Canada’s Jasey-Jay Anderson, who had competed in the 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics, and in 1998 had led the giant slalom after one run. In 2009, the venerable Anderson would finally win a World Championship in boardercross. Sweden’s Jonatan Johansson placed 12th overall in what would be his final race. Shortly after the Torino Olympics ended, he died in a training accident in Lake Placid.

PosNumberCompetitorNOC
1Seth WescottUSAGold
2Radoslav ŽidekSVKSilver
3Paul-Henri De Le RueFRABronze
4Jordi FontESP
5Jasey-Jay AndersonCAN
6Jason SmithUSA
7Damon HaylerAUS
8Dieter KrassnigAUT
9Marco HuserSUI
10François BoivinCAN
11Tommaso TagliaferriITA
12Jonatan JohanssonSWE
13Michal NovotnýCZE
14Nate HollandUSA
15Hans-Jörg UnterrainerAUT
16Itaru ChimuraJPN
17Drew NeilsonCAN
18Xavier De Le RueFRA
19Lukas GrünerAUT
20Mateusz LigockiPOL
21Jonte GrundeliusSWE
22Rafał Skarbek-MalczewskiPOL
23Tom VelisekCAN
24Stefano PozzoliniITA
25Ueli KestenholzSUI
26Alberto SchiavonITA
27Michael LayerGER
28Mattias BlombergSWE
29Sylvain DuclosFRA
30Mario FuchsAUT
31Graham WatanabeUSA
32David SpeiserGER
33Simone MalusàITA
34Ibón IdigorasESP
35Pierre VaultierFRA
36Alex KupprionGER

Qualifying Round

Date16 February 2006 — 10:00
FormatBest run out of two, first 32 advanced to Round One.
PosCompetitorNOCTime
1Drew NeilsonCAN1:19.93Q
2Marco HuserSUI1:20.26Q
3Seth WescottUSA1:20.69Q
4Tommaso TagliaferriITA1:20.93Q
5Xavier De Le RueFRA1:20.97Q
6Dieter KrassnigAUT1:21.00Q
7Nate HollandUSA1:21.03Q
8Jordi FontESP1:21.18Q
9Radoslav ŽidekSVK1:21.19Q
10Paul-Henri De Le RueFRA1:21.21Q
11Lukas GrünerAUT1:21.28Q
12Damon HaylerAUS1:21.51Q
13Mateusz LigockiPOL1:21.81Q
14Jonte GrundeliusSWE1:21.85Q
15Jason SmithUSA1:21.98Q
16Rafał Skarbek-MalczewskiPOL1:22.07Q
17Hans-Jörg UnterrainerAUT1:22.10Q
18Tom VelisekCAN1:22.12Q
19Stefano PozzoliniITA1:22.23Q
20Jasey-Jay AndersonCAN1:22.27Q
21Ueli KestenholzSUI1:22.32Q
22Alberto SchiavonITA1:22.38Q
23Michael LayerGER1:22.43Q
24Mattias BlombergSWE1:22.48Q
25Sylvain DuclosFRA1:22.55Q
26Mario FuchsAUT1:22.60Q
27Itaru ChimuraJPN1:22.83Q
28Michal NovotnýCZE1:22.92Q
29Graham WatanabeUSA1:22.98Q
30François BoivinCAN1:23.17Q
=31David SpeiserGER1:23.38Q
=31Jonatan JohanssonSWE1:23.38Q
33Simone MalusàITA1:23.53
34Ibón IdigorasESP1:23.56
35Pierre VaultierFRA1:23.75
36Alex KupprionGER1:24.66

Round One

Date16 February 2006 — 14:00
FormatFirst two of each heat advanced to quarter-finals.

Heat #1

PosColorCompetitorNOC
1Hans-Jörg UnterrainerAUTQ
2Jonatan JohanssonSWEQ
3Drew NeilsonCAN
4Rafał Skarbek-MalczewskiPOL

Heat #2

PosColorCompetitorNOC
1Radoslav ŽidekSVKQ
2Jordi FontESPQ
3Mattias BlombergSWE
4Sylvain DuclosFRA

Heat #3

PosColorCompetitorNOC
1Damon HaylerAUSQ
2Michal NovotnýCZEQ
3Xavier De Le RueFRA
4Ueli KestenholzSUI

Heat #4

PosColorCompetitorNOC
1Jasey-Jay AndersonCANQ
2Tommaso TagliaferriITAQ
3Graham WatanabeUSA
4Mateusz LigockiPOL

Heat #5

PosColorCompetitorNOC
1Seth WescottUSAQ
2François BoivinCANQ
3Stefano PozzoliniITA
4Jonte GrundeliusSWE

Heat #6

PosColorCompetitorNOC
1Dieter KrassnigAUTQ
2Itaru ChimuraJPNQ
3Alberto SchiavonITA
4Lukas GrünerAUT

Heat #7

PosColorCompetitorNOC
1Nate HollandUSAQ
2Paul-Henri De Le RueFRAQ
3Mario FuchsAUT
4Michael LayerGER

Heat #8

PosColorCompetitorNOC
1Jason SmithUSAQ
2Marco HuserSUIQ
3Tom VelisekCAN
4David SpeiserGER

Quarter-Finals

Date16 February 2006 — 14:26
FormatFirst two of each heat advanced to semi-finals, third placed advanced to Final C, fourth placed advanced to Final D.

Heat #1

PosColorCompetitorNOC
1Radoslav ŽidekSVKQ
2Jordi FontESPQ
3Jonatan JohanssonSWE
4Hans-Jörg UnterrainerAUT

Heat #2

PosColorCompetitorNOC
1Jasey-Jay AndersonCANQ
2Damon HaylerAUSQ
3Tommaso TagliaferriITA
4Michal NovotnýCZE

Heat #3

PosColorCompetitorNOC
1Seth WescottUSAQ
2Dieter KrassnigAUTQ
3François BoivinCAN
4Itaru ChimuraJPN

Heat #4

PosColorCompetitorNOC
1Jason SmithUSAQ
2Paul-Henri De Le RueFRAQ
3Marco HuserSUI
4Nate HollandUSA

Semi-Finals

Date16 February 2006 — 14:42
FormatFirst two of each heat advanced to final, losers advanced to Final B.

Heat #1

PosColorCompetitorNOC
1Radoslav ŽidekSVKQ
2Jordi FontESPQ
3Damon HaylerAUS
4Jasey-Jay AndersonCAN

Heat #2

PosColorCompetitorNOC
1Paul-Henri De Le RueFRAQ
2Seth WescottUSAQ
3Jason SmithUSA
4Dieter KrassnigAUT

Final Round

Date16 February 2006 — 14:50

Final A

PosColorCompetitorNOC
1Seth WescottUSA
2Radoslav ŽidekSVK
3Paul-Henri De Le RueFRA
4Jordi FontESP

Final B

PosColorCompetitorNOC
1Jasey-Jay AndersonCAN
2Jason SmithUSA
3Damon HaylerAUS
4Dieter KrassnigAUT

Final C

PosColorCompetitorNOC
1Marco HuserSUI
2François BoivinCAN
3Tommaso TagliaferriITA
4Jonatan JohanssonSWE

Final D

PosColorCompetitorNOC
1Michal NovotnýCZE
2Nate HollandUSA
3Hans-Jörg UnterrainerAUT
4Itaru ChimuraJPN