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Parallel Giant Slalom, Men

Date22 – 24 February 2018
StatusOlympic
LocationPhoenix Snow Park, Mountain Cluster, Bongpyeong
Participants32 from 13 countries
Course SetterBernd KrugAUT
DetailsGates: 27
Length: 595 m
Start Altitude: 848 m
Vertical Drop: 155 m

One of the most exciting snowboard events, the men’s parallel giant slalom competition at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games was held on 24 February at the Bogwang Phoenix Park in PyeongChang. The shorter parallel slalom race from Sochi 2014 was dropped to add in the big air to the Olympic programme.

Favorites for podium spots included two-time Sochi 2014 Olympic champion Russia’s (OAR’s) Vic Wild, Switzerland’s Nevin Galmarini, and Slovenia’s Žan Košir, The trio won gold, silver, and bronze respectively four years previous. Wild’s two gold medals at Sochi 2014 (parallel slalom, parallel giant slalom) marked the first time a snowboarder had won two medals at the same Olympic Winter Games. Reigning World champion Andreas Prommegger of Austria, 37, was also a threat.

The top three qualifiers leading to the final were Galmarina, Košir and Lee Sang-Ho (KOR), while Wild qualified in ninth out of the 16 racers to advance. In the straight elimination finals of 16, Wild was beaten by 2015 World champion and five-time Olympian Roland Fischnaller of Italy. During the semifinals, Košir appeared to beat Lee in a dramatic finish, but officials declared that the home-crowd favorite South Korean had won by .01 seconds, even though replays of the finish showed that Košir appeared to have gotten his arm across the finish line before Lee did. The result stood and Košir went on to win the bronze finishing 1.49 seconds clear of France’s Sylvain Dufour.

In the final Galmarini, the silver medalist at Sochi 2014, finished 0.43 seconds ahead of Lee, winning his second career Olympic medal. In winning silver, Lee had captured his country’s first Olympic snowboarding medal. Following Galmarini’s victory, Switzerland had now won three of the five gold medals since the Winter Olympics introduced giant slalom snowboarding in 2002.

PosNumberCompetitorNOC
112Nevin GalmariniSUIGold
214Lee Sang-HoKORSilver
320Žan KoširSLOBronze
48Sylvain DufourFRA
55Benjamin KarlAUT
64Stefan BaumeisterGER
77Roland FischnallerITA
86Edwin CorattiITA
916Alex PayerAUT
1019Vic WildROC
113Sebastian KislingerAUT
1210Andreas PrommeggerAUT
1332Oskar KwiatkowskiPOL
149Dmitry SarsembayevROC
1527Kim Sang-GyeomKOR
1626Tim MastnakSLO
1711Rok MargučSLO
182Andrey SobolevROC
1915Rado YankovBUL
2023AJ MussUSA
2117Kaspar FlütschSUI
2221Dario CaviezelSUI
231Aaron MarchITA
2422Jasey-Jay AndersonCAN
2524Patrick BusslerGER
2625Choi Bo-GunKOR
2728Masaki ShibaJPN
2831Darren GardnerCAN
2918Mirko FelicettiITA
3029Mike TrappUSA
3130Alexander BergmannGER
3213Dmitry LoginovROC

Qualifying Round

Date22 February 2018 — 12:27
PosCompetitorNOCTime
1Nevin GalmariniSUI1:24.78Q
2Žan KoširSLO1:24.97Q
3Lee Sang-HoKOR1:25.06Q
4Sylvain DufourFRA1:25.27Q
5Alex PayerAUT1:25.30Q
6Benjamin KarlAUT1:25.33Q
7Stefan BaumeisterGER1:25.37Q
8Roland FischnallerITA1:25.44Q
9Vic WildROC1:25.51Q
10Sebastian KislingerAUT1:25.59Q
11Andreas PrommeggerAUT1:25.67Q
12Edwin CorattiITA1:25.70Q
13Oskar KwiatkowskiPOL1:25.72Q
14Dmitry SarsembayevROC1:25.74Q
15Kim Sang-GyeomKOR1:25.88Q
16Tim MastnakSLO1:25.97Q
17Rok MargučSLO1:25.98
18Andrey SobolevROC1:25.99
19Rado YankovBUL1:26.04
20AJ MussUSA1:26.10
21Kaspar FlütschSUI1:26.26
22Dario CaviezelSUI1:26.39
23Aaron MarchITA1:26.58
24Jasey-Jay AndersonCAN1:26.76
25Patrick BusslerGER1:26.77
26Choi Bo-GunKOR1:26.78
27Masaki ShibaJPN1:26.91
28Darren GardnerCAN1:26.94
29Mirko FelicettiITA1:27.56
30Mike TrappUSA1:28.14
31Alexander BergmannGER1:29.25
32Dmitry LoginovROC1:31.00

Eighth-Finals

Date24 February 2018 — 12:15
FormatWinner of each heat advance to quarter-finals.

Heat #1

Time12:15
PosCompetitorNOCRun 1
1Sylvain DufourFRAQ
2Oskar KwiatkowskiPOL+0.10

Heat #2

Time12:17
PosCompetitorNOCRun 1
1Edwin CorattiITAQ
2Alex PayerAUT+0.33

Heat #3

Time12:19
PosCompetitorNOCRun 1
1Roland FischnallerITAQ
2Vic WildROC+0.93

Heat #4

Time12:21
PosCompetitorNOCRun 1
1Nevin GalmariniSUIQ
2Tim MastnakSLO+0.38

Heat #5

Time12:23
PosCompetitorNOCRun 1
1Žan KoširSLOQ
2Kim Sang-GyeomKOR+1.14

Heat #6

Time12:25
PosCompetitorNOCRun 1
1Stefan BaumeisterGERQ
2Sebastian KislingerAUT+0.22

Heat #7

Time12:27
PosCompetitorNOCRun 1
1Benjamin KarlAUTQ
2Andreas PrommeggerAUT+0.29

Heat #8

Time12:29
PosCompetitorNOCRun 1
1Lee Sang-HoKORQ
2Dmitry SarsembayevROC+0.54

Quarter-Finals

Date24 February 2018 — 12:38
FormatWinner of each heat advance to semi-finals, loser advance to classification round.

Heat #1

Time12:38
PosCompetitorNOCRun 1
1Sylvain DufourFRAQ
2Edwin CorattiITA+0.19

Heat #2

Time12:40
PosCompetitorNOCRun 1
1Nevin GalmariniSUIQ
2Roland FischnallerITA+0.06

Heat #3

Time12:42
PosCompetitorNOCRun 1
1Žan KoširSLOQ
2Stefan BaumeisterGER+3.07

Heat #4

Time12:44
PosCompetitorNOCRun 1
1Lee Sang-HoKORQ
2Benjamin KarlAUT+0.94

Semi-Finals

Date24 February 2018 — 12:52
FormatWinner of each heat advance to final.

Heat #1

Time12:52
PosCompetitorNOCRun 1
1Nevin GalmariniSUIQ
DNFSylvain DufourFRA

Heat #2

Time12:54
PosCompetitorNOCRun 1
1Lee Sang-HoKORQ
2Žan KoširSLO+0.01

Final Round

Date24 February 2018 — 13:04

Heat 1/2

Time13:07
PosCompetitorNOCRun 1
1Nevin GalmariniSUI
2Lee Sang-HoKOR+0.43

Heat 3/4

Time13:04
PosCompetitorNOCRun 1
1Žan KoširSLO
2Sylvain DufourFRA+1.49