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

Event:	Women's Giant Slalom
Games:	1998 Winter
Venue:	Mount Yakebitai
Date:	10 February
Competitors:	31
Nations:	14
Win Value:	2:17.34
Gold:	Karine Ruby
Goldnoc:	FRA
Silver:	Heidi Renoth
Silvernoc:	GER
Bronze:	Brigitte Köck
Bronzenoc:	AUT

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]

Results

Rank	Bib	Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Total	Difference
	2	1:09.33	1	1:08.01	6	2:17.34	-
	1	1:11.92	5	1:07.25	3	2:19.17	+1.83
	11	1:13.01	7	1:06.41	2	2:19.42	+2.08
4	15	1:11.68	3	1:08.03	8	2:19.71	+2.37
5	17	1:12.37	6	1:07.99	5	2:20.36	+3.02
6	8	1:13.32	8	1:08.02	7	2:21.34	+4.00
7	4	1:13.35	9	1:09.07	13	2:22.42	+5.08
8	6	1:11.89	4	1:11.03	15	2:22.92	+5.58
9	19	1:14.39	10	1:08.71	12	2:23.10	+5.76
10	20	1:15.99	13	1:07.92	4	2:23.91	+6.57
11	23	1:15.84	12	1:08.23	9	2:24.07	+6.73
12	12	1:17.89	16	1:08.67	11	2:26.56	+9.22
13	14	1:21.42	20	1:06.15	1	2:27.57	+10.23
14	25	1:18.43	17	1:09.51	14	2:27.94	+10.60
15	22	1:16.88	14	1:11.17	16	2:28.05	+10.71
16	18	1:14.43	11	1:14.30	18	2:28.73	+11.39
17	24	1:21.43	21	1:08.42	10	2:29.85	+12.51
18	29	1:19.48	19	1:12.32	17	2:31.80	+14.46
19	27	1:19.41	18	1:19.53	19	2:38.94	+21.60
20	28	1:23.31	23	1:19.53	20	2:42.84	+25.50
21	30	1:33.55	24	1:22.98	21	2:56.53	+39.19
	3	1:11.28	2	DSQ	-	-	-
	16	1:16.90	15	DNF	-	-	-
	13	1:21.93	22	DNS	-	-	-
	5	DNF	-	-	-	-	-
	7	DNF	-	-	-	-	-
	9	DSQ	-	-	-	-	-
	10	DNF	-	-	-	-	-
	21	DNF	-	-	-	-	-
	26	DNF	-	-	-	-	-
	31	DNF	-	-	-	-	-

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

Notes and References

Web site: Snowboarding at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games: Women's Giant Slalom . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417224656/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1998/SNB/womens-giant-slalom.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 10 April 2020 . Sports Reference.
Web site: Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3 . LA84 Foundation . Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee . 1998 . 14 January 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080226202657/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1998/Vol3_e.pdf . 26 February 2008 .