Snowboarding at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's halfpipe explained

The men's halfpipe competition of the Sochi 2014 Olympics was held at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park on 11 February 2014.^[1]

The gold was won by Swiss Iouri Podladtchikov, who was followed by two Japanese snowboarders, the 15-year-old Ayumu Hirano in silver and Taku Hiraoka in bronze.^[2]

Qualification

See main article: Snowboarding at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Qualification. An athlete must have placed in the top 30 in at a World Cup event after July 2012 or at the 2013 World Championships and a minimum of 100 FIS points. A total of 40 quota spots are available to athletes to compete at the games. A maximum of 4 athletes can be entered by a National Olympic Committee.^[3]

All times are (UTC+4).

The qualification was held at 14:00.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Bib	Run 1	Run 2	Best	Notes
1	1	2	92.25	64.75	92.25	QF
2	1	6	74.00	83.75	83.75	QF
3	1	17	48.75	81.00	81.00	QF
4	1	1	79.25	20.75	79.25	QS
5	1	19	68.75	76.50	76.50	QS
6	1	18	76.00	15.50	76.00	QS
7	1	5	71.75	52.50	71.75	QS
8	1	13	66.25	71.50	71.50	QS
9	1	4	71.25	36.75	71.25	QS
10	1	20	34.25	70.25	70.25
11	1	16	27.00	69.50	69.50
12	1	15	25.25	64.25	64.25
13	1	11	34.50	63.75	63.75
14	1	3	25.50	62.50	62.50
15	1	12	58.75	54.50	58.75
16	1	10	43.50	16.25	43.50
17	1	8	28.00	41.00	41.00
18	1	9	23.00	39.50	39.50
19	1	7	37.50	13.00	37.50
20	1	14	12.75	37.25	37.25
1	2	25	95.75	70.75	95.75	QF
2	2	28	92.25	63.50	92.25	QF
3	2	39	92.00	73.75	92.00	QF
4	2	27	90.00	89.75	90.00	QS
5	2	24	81.50	87.50	87.50	QS
6	2	33	87.00	25.5	87.00	QS
7	2	29	86.00	27.50	86.00	QS
8	2	26	15.00	82.00	82.00	QS
9	2	23	43.50	69.75	69.75	QS
10	2	21	68.50	15.00	68.50
11	2	38	61.25	65.50	65.50
12	2	30	29.25	65.25	65.25
13	2	40	33.50	62.50	62.50
14	2	31	61.75	20.00	61.75
15	2	35	59.75	27.75	59.75
16	2	37	4.50	55.00	55.00
17	2	22	54.50	28.75	54.50
18	2	36	49.00	52.00	52.00
19	2	34	31.25	22.50	31.25
–	2	32	DNS

QF – Qualify directly to final; QS – Qualify to semifinal; DNS – Did not start

The semifinals was held at 16:00.^[5]

Rank	Bib	Run 1	Run 2	Best	Notes
1	26	87.50	41.25	87.50	Q
2	5	83.00	44.25	83.00	Q
3	33	49.25	79.50	79.50	Q
4	27	45.00	79.25	79.25	Q
5	18	15.50	78.50	78.50	Q
6	19	72.00	75.50	75.50	Q
7	29	25.75	73.50	73.50
8	24	26.00	60.75	60.75
9	13	54.00	43.00	54.00
10	4	18.50	37.0	37.0
11	1	12.00	31.75	31.75
–	23	DNS

The final was held at 18:30.^[6] ^[7]

Rank	Bib	Run 1	Run 2	Best
	26	86.50	94.75	94.75
	2	90.75	93.50	93.50
	28	45.50	92.25	92.25
	25	35.00	90.25	90.25
	17	80.75	88.50	88.50
	27	87.25	58.50	87.25
	18	81.00	25.00	81.00
	19	72.25	16.50	72.25
	33	40.00	68.50	68.50
10	39	53.00	45.25	53.00
11	6	46.25	51.50	51.50
12	5	21.75	26.50	26.50

a Scherrer suffered a tear in his right ankle during warm-up and had to pull out of the semifinals.^[8]

Web site: Snowboarding Schedule and Results. SOOC. 13 January 2014. 24 July 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140724234650/http://www.sochi2014.com/en/snowboard-schedule-and-results. dead.
Web site: Men's halfpipe finals results . Yahoo Sports . . 13 January 2014.
Web site: Qualification Systems for XXII Olympic Winter Games, Sochi 2014 . December 2011 . . 20 January 2014.
http://data.fis-ski.com/pdf/2014/SB/7011/7011RLRQ.pdf Qualification Results
http://data.fis-ski.com/pdf/2014/SB/7011/7011RLSF.pdf Semifinals Results
http://data.fis-ski.com/pdf/2014/SB/7011/7011RLR0.pdf Final Results
Web site: Iouri Podladtchikov dethrones White in breathtaking Olympic halfpipe final . February 11, 2014 . . February 12, 2014 . February 11, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140211231704/http://www.fis-ski.com/snowboard/freestyle-snowboard/news-multimedia/news/article=iouri-podladtchikov-dethrones-white-breathtaking-olympic-halfpipe-final.html . dead .
News: Iouri Podladtchikov gewinnt Gold! . . German . February 11, 2014 . February 12, 2014.