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

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

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
Karine Ruby  France Heidi Renoth  Germany Brigitte Köck  Austria

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

1. . Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
2. (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 14 January 2014.