The women's parallel giant slalom competition in snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 8 February, at the Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou. Ester Ledecká of the Czech Republic won the event, defending her 2018 title. Daniela Ulbing of Austria won the silver medal, and Glorija Kotnik of Slovenia the bronze medal. For Ulbing and Kotnik, these were the first Olympic medals.
The 2018 silver medalist, Selina Jörg, did not qualify for the Olympics, but the bronze medalist, Ramona Theresia Hofmeister, did. At the 2021–22 FIS Snowboard World Cup, five parallel giant slalom events were held before the Olympics. Sofia Nadyrshina was leading the ranking, followed by Ulbing and Ladina Jenny. Jörg is the 2021 world champion, with Nadyrshina and Julia Dujmovits being the silver and bronze medalists, respectively.
Qualification
A total of 32 snowboarders qualified to compete at the games. For an athlete to compete they must have a minimum of 100.00 FIS points on the FIS Points List on January 17, 2022, and a top 30 finish in a World Cup event or at the FIS Snowboard World Championships 2021. A country could enter a maximum of four athletes into the event.
Results Qualification run The qualification was started at 10:40.Qualification results
Rank Bib Name Country Blue course Red course Total Notes 1 12 Ester Ledecká 41.38 42.25 1:23.63 Q 2 6 Ramona Theresia Hofmeister 42.14 44.06 1:26.20 Q 3 5 Tsubaki Miki 44.52 42.63 1:27.15 Q 4 2 Sofia Nadyrshina 42.84 44.38 1:27.22 Q 5 7 Julia Dujmovits 44.50 42.93 1:27.43 Q 6 3 Carolin Langenhorst 45.35 42.25 1:27.60 Q 7 14 Daniela Ulbing 43.16 44.61 1:27.77 Q 8 1 Aleksandra Król 45.14 42.96 1:28.10 Q 9 10 Polina Smolentsova 43.85 44.31 1:28.16 Q 10 20 Megan Farrell 43.96 44.41 1:28.37 Q 11 16 Julie Zogg 43.90 44.50 1:28.40 Q 12 4 Patrizia Kummer 43.52 44.96 1:28.48 Q 13 18 Michelle Dekker 43.64 45.09 1:28.73 Q 14 24 Glorija Kotnik 43.44 45.09 1:28.73 Q 15 17 Tomoka Takeuchi 45.32 43.51 1:28.83 Q 16 8 Nadya Ochner 43.91 44.93 1:28.84 Q 17 13 Ladina Jenny 45.02 43.96 1:28.98 18 26 Jeong Hae-rim 43.63 45.47 1:29.10 19 23 Gong Naiying 45.62 43.69 1:29.31 20 11 Natalia Soboleva 45.85 44.09 1:29.94 21 31 Kaylie Buck 46.02 44.12 1:30.14 22 27 Weronika Biela 46.16 44.59 1:30.75 23 29 Zuzana Maděrová 48.05 46.54 1:34.59 24 30 Aleksandra Michalik 51.06 46.05 1:37.11 25 21 Zang Ruxin 46.22 51.26 1:37.48 26 25 Annamari Dancha 48.82 48.97 1:37.79 27 9 Melanie Hochreiter 42.44 1:42.74 28 19 Jessica Keiser 59.85 47.30 1:47.15 29 22 Lucia Dalmasso 54.68 53.00 1:47.68 30 15 Milena Bykova 45.17 28 Jennifer Hawkrigg
Elimination round BracketsFinal results
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