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Snowboarding is an Olympic sport that has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. [1] Snowboarding was one of five new sports or disciplines added to the Winter Olympic programme between 1990 and 2002, and was the only one not to have been a previous medal or demonstration event. [ 2 ]
The United States qualified their men's team (five athletes), by finishing in the top six teams in the 2021 World Men's Curling Championship. [13] Team John Shuster qualified as United States representatives by winning the 2021 United States Olympic Curling Trials, defeating Korey Dropkin 2–1 in the best-of-three final. [14]
Lindsey Jacobellis and Nick Baumgartner of Team United States (R) celebrate winning the gold medal during the snowboard mixed team cross big final at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
*The first U.S. Snowboarding Team was officially named in 1994, prior to the 1994–95 season in order to prepare for the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan, where the sport would make its Olympic debut, however the United States had participated in snowboarding World Cup competitions since the tour was created in 1988.
Three days after capturing an elusive gold in the individual event, five-time Olympian Lindsey Jacobellis claimed another Saturday in the Games debut of mixed
Julia Marino scored a silver medal in snowboarding slopestyle for USA's first podium finish of the 2022 Olympics.
The mixed team snowboard cross competition in snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 12 February, at the Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou. [1] This was the first time a mixed snowboarding event would be featured at the Olympics. Nick Baumgartner and Lindsey Jacobellis of the United States won the event.
Two veteran U.S. snowboarders brought home the first-ever gold in mixed team snowboard cross in the event's Olympic debut Saturday in Beijing. ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us.