Queralt Castellet Explained

Queralt Castellet
Nationality:Spanish
Birth Date:17 June 1989
Birth Place:Sabadell, Spain
Height:1.56 m
Weight:52 kg
Country:Spain
Sport:Snowboarding
Event:Halfpipe

Queralt Castellet Ibáñez (born 17 June 1989) is a Spanish snowboarder. She won a silver medal in the women's halfpipe at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, making her the first Spanish woman to win an Olympic medal at a Winter Olympics for 30 years.[1] She was a silver medalist at the 2015 World Championships.

Life and career

Castellet was born in Sabadell. She states that although she lived in the city, her parents would take her to the mountains every weekend as they enjoyed camping. She began snowboarding at age 6 after her parents had discovered it four years prior. She also participated in gymnastics, but was forced to stop at age 16 after fracturing her wrist while snowboarding. This prompted her to move to the Pyrenees to snowboard more frequently.[2] As a teenager she competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics, and finished tenth in halfpipe at the 2007 World Snowboard Championships. During the 2007-08 Snowboarding World Cup circuit she placed on the podium three times, and overall she placed third in the halfpipe section of the 2007–08 World Cup.[3]

At the 2010 Winter Olympics she scored a 44.3 on her first qualifying run, third highest. However, she suffered a concussion while practicing in the lead-up to the final and was subsequently forced to withdraw.

At the World Cup, she has seven victories, and ten additional podiums in halfpipe, and another podium in big air.

She won silver in the women's halfpipe at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, her fifth Olympic Games.[1]

Personal

Castellet currently lives in New Zealand.

Olympic results

SeasonDateLocationDisciplinePlace
2006 13 February 2006 Turin, Italy 26th
2010 18 February 2010 Vancouver, Canada 12th
2014 12 February 2014 Sochi, Russia 11th
2018 13 February 2018 Pyeongchang, South Korea 7th
2022 9 February 2022 Beijing, China align=center bgcolor="silver"2nd

World championships results

SeasonDateLocationDisciplinePlace
2007 20 January 2007 Arosa, Switzerland Halfpipe 10th
2009 23 January 2009 Gangwon, South Korea Halfpipe 6th
2013 20 January 2013 Stoneham, Canada 5th
2015 17 January 2015 Kreischberg, Austria align=center bgcolor="silver"2nd
align=center rowspan=22017 11 March 2017 Sierra Nevada, Spain 11th
17 March 2017 10th
2019 8 February 2019 Park City, United States 4th
2021 13 March 2021 Aspen, United States align=center bgcolor="#cc9966"3rd

World Cup podiums

SeasonDateLocationDisciplinePlace
align=center rowspan=3200827 January 2008 Bardonecchia, ItalyHalfpipe2nd
9 March 2008 Stoneham, CanadaHalfpipe3rd
16 March 2008 Valmalenco, ItalyHalfpipe2nd
26 March 2011 Arosa, Switzerland Halfpipe align=center style="background:gold;"1st
3 November 2011 Saas-Fee, Switzerland Halfpipe align=center style="background:gold;"1st
align=center rowspan=2201326 August 2012 Cardrona, New ZealandHalfpipe3rd
12 January 2013 Copper Mountain, USAHalfpipe3rd
13 February 2016 Quebec, Canada Big air 3rd
align=center rowspan=213 January 2018 Snowmass, USA Halfpipe align=center style="background:gold;"1st
20 January 2018 Laax, SwitzerlandHalfpipe3rd
align=center rowspan=2201919 January 2019 Laax, SwitzerlandHalfpipe2nd
15 February 2019 Calgary, CanadaHalfpipealign=center style="background:gold;"1st
align=center rowspan=2202014 December 2019 Copper Mountain, USAHalfpipealign=center style="background:gold;"1st
18 January 2020 Laax, SwitzerlandHalfpipealign=center style="background:gold;"1st
21 March 2021 Aspen, USAHalfpipe 2nd
align=center rowspan=211 December 2021 Copper Mountain, USAHalfpipe 3rd
15 January 2022 Laax, SwitzerlandHalfpipe3rd
align=center rowspan=1202316 December 2022 Copper Mountain, USAHalfpipealign=center style="background:gold;"1st

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2022-02-10. Queralt Castellet wins halfpipe silver, Spain's first medal in 30 years. 2022-02-13. Just Women's Sports. en-US.
  2. Web site: 2016-08-04 . How to go pro (when you're Queralt Castellet) . 2023-07-03 . Red Bull . en.
  3. Web site: Queralt Castellet . 2023-07-03 . Red Bull . en.