Snowboarding 2018/Men's snowboard cross

Men's snowboard cross
General information
Sport	Snowboarding 2018
Date	15 February 2018
Competitors	40 athletes
Venue	Phoenix Snow Park
Previous medalists
Gold	Pierre Vaultier
Silver	Nikolay Olyunin
Bronze	Alex Deibold
Conditions
Temperature	-4°C / 24.8°F
Length	1277 metres
Height	228 metres
Forerunners
Forerunner	Woo Jin-yong South Korea
Forerunner	Woo Jin South Korea
Forerunner	Yoshiki Takahara Japan
Forerunner	Geza Kinda Romania
Forerunner	Mike Lacroix United States
Forerunner	Mckinzie Edwards United States
Medalists
	Pierre Vaultier
	Jarryd Hughes
	Regino Hernandez

The men's snowboard cross of Snowboarding 2018 during the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 15 February 2018 in the Phoenix Snow Park. With 40 athletes competing, the event was won by Pierre Vaultier from France, with Jarryd Hughes from Australia taking the silver medal and Regino Hernandez from Spain taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of a single course of 1277 metres. The competition consists of five different phases, with all competitors setting a time in the qualification. All athletes compete in the first round in head-to-head races between five athletes, after which the quarterfinals, semifinals, and final are head-to-head races between six athletes, with the first three advancing to the next round. The athlete with the fastest time in the final is the winner of the event.

Preview

Forty athletes qualified for the event with Alex Pullin as the leader in the world rankings and Pierre Vaultier as the defending gold medalist and second seed. The remaining medal contenders came from all over the world, with Omar Visintin, Alessandro Haemmerle, Paul Berg, Hagen Kearney, and Mick Dierdorff standing high in the world rankings. Spain also had two strong irons in the fire with Lucas Eguibar and Regino Hernandez, but the competition remained wide open. Other outsiders included the Australians Jarryd Hughes and Adam Lambert, Lukas Pachner, Emanuel Perathoner, and Nick Baumgartner.

Summary

Qualification 1

Qualification 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Name	Time
1		Pierre Vaultier	1:13.14
2		Omar Visintin	1:13.25
3		Regino Hernandez	1:13.67
4		Nikolay Olyunin	1:13.78
5		Merlin Surget	1:13.82
6		Hagen Kearney	1:13.94
7		Martin Noerl	1:14.12
8		Kevin Hill	1:14.24
9		Kalle Koblet	1:14.25
10		Ken Vuagnoux	1:14.29
11		Christopher Robanske	1:14.35
11		Cameron Bolton	1:14.35
13		Lorenzo Sommariva	1:14.36
14		Paul Berg	1:14.39
15		Nick Baumgartner	1:14.46
16		Hanno Douschan	1:14.53
17		Markus Schairer	1:14.56
18		Emanuel Perathoner	1:14.62
19		Jonathan Cheever	1:14.72
20		Alex Pullin	1:14.76
21		Jerome Lymann	1:14.77
22		Adam Lambert	1:14.94
23		Anton Lindfors	1:15.01
24		Alessandro Haemmerle	1:15.03
25		Daniil Dilman	1:15.40
26		Mick Dierdorff	1:15.47
26		Lluis Marin Tarroch	1:15.47
28		Jarryd Hughes	1:15:69
29		Konstantin Schad	1:15.73
30		Jan Kubicik	1:15.73
31		Loan Bozzolo	1:16.15
32		Duncan Campbell	1:16.68
33		Lukas Pachner	1:16.99
34		Steven Williams	1:17.12
35		Laro Herrero	1:17.62
36		Lucas Eguibar	1:18.42
37		Mateusz Ligocki	1:19.48
38		Michele Godino	1:20.88
39		Eliot Grondin	1:28.89
40		Baptiste Brochu	DNS

Qualification 2

Qualification 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Name	Time
1		Jarryd Hughes	1:13.73
2		Lucas Eguibar	1:14.45
3		Mick Dierdorff	1:14.52
4		Michele Godino	1:14.96
5		Steven Williams	1:15.35
6		Lluis Marin Tarroch	1:15.37
7		Eliot Grondin	1:15.93
8		Daniil Dilman	1:16.11
8		Loan Bozzolo	1:16.11
10		Jan Kubicik	1:16.25
11		Laro Herrero	1:16.97
12		Lukas Pachner	1:17.48
13		Mateusz Ligocki	1:19.22
14		Duncan Campbell	DNF
15		Baptiste Brochu	DNS
16		Konstantin Schad	DNS

Heats

Heat 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Info
1		Jarryd Hughes	Q
2		Pierre Vaultier	Q
3		Markus Schairer	Q
4		Hanno Douschan
5		Baptiste Brochu	DNS

Heat 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Info
1		Alessandro Haemmerle	Q
2		Kevin Hill	Q
3		Kalle Koblet	Q
4		Konstantin Schad
5		Jan Kubicik

Heat 3 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Info
1		Jerome Lymann	Q
2		Cameron Bolton	Q
3		Merlin Surget	Q
4		Steven Williams
5		Duncan Campbell

Heat 4 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Info
1		Nikolay Olyunin	Q
2		Alex Pullin	Q
3		Michele Godino	Q
4		Lorenzo Sommariva
5		Laro Herrero

Heat 5 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Info
1		Mick Dierdorff	Q
2		Paul Berg	Q
3		Regino Hernandez	Q
4		Jonathan Cheever
5		Lukas Pachner

Heat 6 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Info
1		Hagen Kearney	Q
2		Christopher Robanske	Q
3		Loan Bozzolo	Q
4		Adam Lambert
5		Lluis Marin Tarroch

Heat 7 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Info
1		Martin Noerl	Q
2		Ken Vuagnoux	Q
3		Anton Lindfors	Q
4		Daniil Dilman
5		Eliot Grondin	DNF

Heat 8 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Info
1		Emanuel Perathoner	Q
2		Nick Baumgartner	Q
3		Mateusz Ligocki	Q
4		Omar Visintin
5		Lucas Eguibar	DNF

Quarterfinals

Quarterfinal 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Info
1		Pierre Vaultier	Q
2		Jarryd Hughes	Q
3		Alessandro Haemmerle	Q
4		Kevin Hill
5		Kalle Koblet	DNF
6		Markus Schairer	DNF

Quarterfinal 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Info
1		Nikolay Olyunin	Q
2		Alex Pullin	Q
3		Cameron Bolton	Q
4		Jerome Lymann
5		Merlin Surget	DNF
6		Michele Godino	DNF

Quarterfinal 3 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Info
1		Regino Hernandez	Q
2		Mick Dierdorff	Q
3		Christopher Robanske	Q
4		Hagen Kearney
5		Paul Berg	DNF
6		Loan Bozzolo	DNF

Quarterfinal 4 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Info
1		Martin Noerl	Q
2		Nick Baumgartner	Q
3		Anton Lindfors	Q
4		Emanuel Perathoner
5		Mateusz Ligocki
6		Ken Vuagnoux	DNF

Semifinals

Semifinal 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Info
1		Alex Pullin	Q
2		Jarryd Hughes	Q
3		Pierre Vaultier	Q
4		Cameron Bolton
5		Alessandro Haemmerle
6		Nikolay Olyunin	DNF

Semifinal 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Info
1		Regino Hernandez	Q
2		Nick Baumgartner	Q
3		Mick Dierdorff	Q
4		Martin Noerl
5		Anton Lindfors
6		Christopher Robanske	DNF

Finals

Big Final Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Info
1		Pierre Vaultier
2		Jarryd Hughes
3		Regino Hernandez
4		Nick Baumgartner
5		Mick Dierdorff
6		Alex Pullin	DNF

Small Final Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Info
1		Alessandro Haemmerle
2		Martin Noerl
3		Anton Lindfors
4		Cameron Bolton
5		Nikolay Olyunin	DNS
6		Christopher Robanske	DNS

Results

Result	Athlete	Nationality
	Pierre Vaultier	France
	Jarryd Hughes	Australia
	Regino Hernandez	Spain
4	Nick Baumgartner	United States
5	Mick Dierdorff	United States
6	Alex Pullin	Australia
7	Alessandro Haemmerle	Austria
8	Martin Noerl	Germany
9	Anton Lindfors	Finland
10	Cameron Bolton	Australia
11	Nikolay Olyunin	Olympic Athletes from Russia
11	Christopher Robanske	Canada
13	Hagen Kearney	United States
14	Kevin Hill	Canada
15	Emanuel Perathoner	Italy
16	Jerome Lymann	Switzerland
17	Merlin Surget	France
18	Kalle Koblet	Switzerland
19	Paul Berg	Germany
20	Mateusz Ligocki	Poland
21	Ken Vuagnoux	France
22	Markus Schairer	Austria
23	Michele Godino	Italy
24	Loan Bozzolo	France
25	Omar Visintin	Italy
26	Lorenzo Sommariva	Italy
27	Hanno Douschan	Austria
28	Jonathan Cheever	United States
29	Adam Lambert	Australia
30	Steven Williams	Argentina
31	Daniil Dilman	Olympic Athletes from Russia
32	Konstantin Schad	Germany
33	Lucas Eguibar	Spain
34	Lluis Marin Tarroch	Andorra
35	Jan Kubicik	Czech Republic
36	Eliot Grondin	Canada
37	Duncan Campbell	New Zealand
38	Laro Herrero	Spain
39	Lukas Pachner	Austria
40	Baptiste Brochu	Canada