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Parallel Giant Slalom, Women

Date19 February 2014
StatusOlympic
LocationEkstrim-Park Rosa Khutor, Krasnaya Polyana / Ekstrim-Park Rosa Khutor, Krasnaya Polyana
Participants32 from 15 countries
Course SetterDenis TikhomirovRUS
DetailsGates: 29
Length: 650 m
Start Altitude: 1175 m
Vertical Drop: 155 m

The 2013/14 World Cup leader was Switzerland’s Patrizia Kummer who managed to avoid any falls on an icy, bumpy giant slalom course, and stayed up to win the gold medal. In the final Kummer defeated Japan’s Tomoka Takeuchi, the first Asian woman to win an Olympic snowboarding medal. The bronze went to 2011 World Champion, and the home crowd favorite, Alyona Zavarzina, whose husband, American expatriate Vic Wild, won the men’s parallel GS five minutes later.

The boarders faced a new course on the day of the event as it was changed after training because of course conditions. The difficult course saw many favorites crash out, including defending champion Nicolien Sauerbreij of the Netherlands, the 2013 World Champion Isabella Laböck of Germany, Russian silver medalist from 2010 Yekaterina Ilyukhina, and Austrian Marion Kreiner, the Vancouver bronze medalist.

PosNumberCompetitorNOC
11Patrizia KummerSUIGold
28Tomoka TakeuchiJPNSilver
321Alyona ZavarzinaRUSBronze
411Ina MeschikAUT
524Marianne LeesonCAN
613Caroline CalvéCAN
74Ester LedeckáCZE
814Ariane LavigneCAN
927Julie ZoggSUI
1010Nicolien SauerbreijNED
1115Claudia RieglerAUT
1218Yekaterina IlyukhinaRUS
135Selina JörgGER
1422Ladina JennySUI
1516Yekaterina TudegeshevaRUS
1628Corinna BoccaciniITA
1725Stefanie MüllerSUI
1820Isabella LaböckGER
197Hilde Katrine EngeliNOR
2012Marion KreinerAUT
2131Annamari ChundakUKR
2223Michelle DekkerNED
2326Valeriya TsoyKAZ
2429Gloria KotnikSLO
253Anke KarstensGER
2619Nadya OchnerITA
2732Nina MicićSRB
2830Karolina SztokfiszPOL
296Julia DujmovitsAUT
302Amelie KoberGER
DQ17Nataliya SobolevaRUS
DQ9Aleksandra KrólPOL

Qualifying Round

Date19 February 2014 — 9:15
PosNumberCompetitorNOCTime
18Tomoka TakeuchiJPN1:46.33Q
21Patrizia KummerSUI1:46.62Q
327Julie ZoggSUI1:47.11Q
410Nicolien SauerbreijNED1:47.22Q
524Marianne LeesonCAN1:47.41Q
621Alyona ZavarzinaRUS1:47.65Q
715Claudia RieglerAUT1:48.62Q
813Caroline CalvéCAN1:48.79Q
918Yekaterina IlyukhinaRUS1:49.02Q
104Ester LedeckáCZE1:49.17Q
115Selina JörgGER1:49.64Q
1222Ladina JennySUI1:50.41Q
1311Ina MeschikAUT1:51.32Q
1414Ariane LavigneCAN1:51.69Q
1516Yekaterina TudegeshevaRUS1:51.77Q
1628Corinna BoccaciniITA1:51.85Q
1725Stefanie MüllerSUI1:51.98
1820Isabella LaböckGER1:52.01
197Hilde Katrine EngeliNOR1:52.29
2012Marion KreinerAUT1:52.40
2131Annamari ChundakUKR1:53.71
2223Michelle DekkerNED1:53.74
2326Valeriya TsoyKAZ1:54.57
2429Gloria KotnikSLO1:57.68
253Anke KarstensGER1:59.29
2619Nadya OchnerITA1:59.88
2732Nina MicićSRB2:04.94
2830Karolina SztokfiszPOL2:08.40
296Julia DujmovitsAUT
302Amelie KoberGER
DQ17Nataliya SobolevaRUS
DQ9Aleksandra KrólPOL

Eighth-Finals

Date19 February 2014 — 13:00
FormatWinner of each heat advanced to quarter-finals.

Heat #1

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Tomoka TakeuchiJPNQ
2Corinna BoccaciniITA+1.07+1.93

Heat #2

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Caroline CalvéCANQ
2Yekaterina IlyukhinaRUS+1.50+0.03

Heat #3

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Marianne LeesonCANQ
2Ladina JennySUI+0.51+0.30

Heat #4

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Ina MeschikAUT+0.30Q
2Nicolien SauerbreijNED+0.05

Heat #5

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Ariane LavigneCAN+0.91Q
2Julie ZoggSUI+0.12

Heat #6

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Alyona ZavarzinaRUS+0.04Q
2Selina JörgGER+13.53

Heat #7

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Ester LedeckáCZEQ
2Claudia RieglerAUT+0.24+0.49

Heat #8

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Patrizia KummerSUIQ
2Yekaterina TudegeshevaRUS+1.50+0.76

Quarter-Finals

Date19 February 2014 — 13:48
FormatWinner of each heat advanced to semi-finals, loser advanced to classification round.

Heat #1

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Tomoka TakeuchiJPNQ
2Caroline CalvéCAN+0.74+4.00

Heat #2

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Ina MeschikAUT+0.65Q
2Marianne LeesonCAN+0.30

Heat #3

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Alyona ZavarzinaRUS+0.11Q
2Ariane LavigneCAN+7.27

Heat #4

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Patrizia KummerSUI+0.57Q
2Ester LedeckáCZE+0.30

Semi-Finals

Date19 February 2014 — 14:15
FormatWinner of each heat advanced to final.

Heat #1

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Tomoka TakeuchiJPNQ
2Ina MeschikAUT+1.01DQ

Heat #2

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Patrizia KummerSUI+0.04Q
2Alyona ZavarzinaRUSDQ

Final Round

Date19 February 2014 — 14:31

Heat 1/2

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Patrizia KummerSUI+0.30
2Tomoka TakeuchiJPN+7.32

Heat 3/4

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Alyona ZavarzinaRUS+0.01
2Ina MeschikAUT+0.82