Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's giant slalom

Women's Giant Slalom
at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Women's Giant Slalom; at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Mount Yakebitai
Date	10 February
Competitors	31 from 14 nations
Winning time	2:17.34
Medalists

The women's giant slalom competition of the Nagano 1998 Olympics was held at Mount Yakebitai on 10 February.^[1]

It was the first time snowboarding was added as a sport at the Winter Olympic Games. The giant slalom was replaced by the parallel giant slalom event in 2002 in Salt Lake City.^[2]

Medalists

Gold	Karine Ruby France
Silver	Heidi Renoth Germany
Bronze	Brigitte Köck Austria

Results

Rank^[2]	Bib	Name	Nationality	Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Total	Difference
	2	Karine Ruby	France	1:09.33	1	1:08.01	6	2:17.34	-
	1	Heidi Renoth	Germany	1:11.92	5	1:07.25	3	2:19.17	+1.83
	11	Brigitte Köck	Austria	1:13.01	7	1:06.41	2	2:19.42	+2.08
4	15	Lidia Trettel	Italy	1:11.68	3	1:08.03	8	2:19.71	+2.37
5	17	Ursula Fingerlos	Austria	1:12.37	6	1:07.99	5	2:20.36	+3.02
6	8	Marion Posch	Italy	1:13.32	8	1:08.02	7	2:21.34	+4.00
7	4	Dagi Mair unter der Eggen	Italy	1:13.35	9	1:09.07	13	2:22.42	+5.08
8	6	Isabel Zedlacher	Austria	1:11.89	4	1:11.03	15	2:22.92	+5.58
9	19	Sandra Farmand	Germany	1:14.39	10	1:08.71	12	2:23.10	+5.76
10	20	Marie Birkl	Sweden	1:15.99	13	1:07.92	4	2:23.91	+6.57
11	23	Cécile Plancherel	Switzerland	1:15.84	12	1:08.23	9	2:24.07	+6.73
12	12	Sondra Van Ert	United States	1:17.89	16	1:08.67	11	2:26.56	+9.22
13	14	Margherita Parini	Italy	1:21.42	20	1:06.15	1	2:27.57	+10.23
14	25	Heidi Jaufenthaler	Austria	1:18.43	17	1:09.51	14	2:27.94	+10.60
15	22	Shinobu Ueshima	Japan	1:16.88	14	1:11.17	16	2:28.05	+10.71
16	18	Charlotte Bernard	France	1:14.43	11	1:14.30	18	2:28.73	+11.39
17	24	Nathalie Desmares	France	1:21.43	21	1:08.42	10	2:29.85	+12.51
18	29	Renate Keller	Switzerland	1:19.48	19	1:12.32	17	2:31.80	+14.46
19	27	Małgorzata Rosiak	Poland	1:19.41	18	1:19.53	19	2:38.94	+21.60
20	28	Mariya Dimova	Bulgaria	1:23.31	23	1:19.53	20	2:42.84	+25.50
21	30	Marousa Pappou	Greece	1:33.55	24	1:22.98	21	2:56.53	+39.19
-	3	Isabelle Blanc	France	1:11.28	2	DSQ	-	-	-
-	16	Polona Zupan	Slovenia	1:16.90	15	DNF	-	-	-
-	13	Steffi von Siebenthal	Switzerland	1:21.93	22	DNS	-	-	-
-	5	Rosey Fletcher	United States	DNF	-	-	-	-	-
-	7	Burgl Heckmair	Germany	DNF	-	-	-	-	-
-	9	Betsy Shaw	United States	DSQ	-	-	-	-	-
-	10	Lisa Kosglow	United States	DNF	-	-	-	-	-
-	21	Jana Šedová	Slovakia	DNF	-	-	-	-	-
-	26	Jagna Marczułajtis	Poland	DNF	-	-	-	-	-
-	31	Pamela Bell	New Zealand	DNF	-	-	-	-	-

DSQ - Disqualified; DNS - Did not start; DNF - Did not finish

References

^ "Snowboarding at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games: Women's Giant Slalom". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 14 January 2014.

[SR-1] "Snowboarding at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games: Women's Giant Slalom". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2020.

[OfficialReport-2] "Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 14 January 2014.

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