The men's parallel giant slalom competition in snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 8 February, at the Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou. The event was won by Benjamin Karl of Austria, the 2010 silver and 2014 bronze medalist. Tim Mastnak of Slovenia won silver, his first Olympic medal. Vic Wild, the 2014 champion, representing the Russian Olympic Committee, won the bronze medal.

Nevin Galmarini was the defending champion. He did not qualify for the elimination round. The 2018 silver medalist, Lee Sang-ho, and the bronze medalist, Žan Košir, qualified for the Olympics as well. At the 2021–22 FIS Snowboard World Cup, five parallel giant slalom events were held before the Olympics. Stefan Baumeister was leading the ranking, followed by Lee and Dmitry Loginov. Loginov was the 2021 world champion, with Roland Fischnaller and Andrey Sobolev 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 11:07.Qualification results

Rank Bib Name Country Blue course Red course Total Notes 1 4 Lee Sang-ho 39.96 40.58 1:20.54 Q 2 15 Benjamin Karl 41.21 40.04 1:21.25 Q 3 2 Andreas Prommegger 40.34 41.03 1:21.37 Q 4 10 Tim Mastnak 40.24 41.19 1:21.43 Q 5 20 Oskar Kwiatkowski 40.63 40.89 1:21.52 Q 6 6 Roland Fischnaller 40.25 41.34 1:21.59 Q 7 19 Michał Nowaczyk 40.92 40.72 1:21.64 Q 8 1 Dmitry Loginov 41.31 40.38 1:21.69 Q 9 21 Vic Wild 41.10 40.96 1:22.06 Q 10 5 Alexander Payer 41.26 40.84 1:22.10 Q 11 9 Žan Košir 41.55 40.61 1:22.16 Q 12 8 Mirko Felicetti 40.89 41.37 1:22.26 Q 13 23 Yannik Angenend 41.41 40.87 1:22.28 Q 14 13 Dario Caviezel 41.92 40.43 1:22.35 Q 15 22 Radoslav Yankov 41.48 41.00 1:22.48 Q 16 12 Daniele Bagozza 41.18 41.30 1:22.48 Q 17 11 Edwin Coratti 41.22 41.27 1:22.49 18 3 Stefan Baumeister 41.24 41.40 1:22.64 19 16 Andrey Sobolev 41.39 41.48 1:22.87 20 32 Jules Lefebvre 41.66 41.28 1:22.94 21 14 Nevin Galmarini 41.17 42.27 1:23.44 22 27 Bi Ye 42.10 41.43 1:23.53 23 7 Lukas Mathies 41.66 42.09 1:23.75 24 18 Kim Sang-kyum 42.40 41.41 1:23.81 25 26 Rok Marguč 42.29 42.09 1:24.38 26 25 Arnaud Gaudet 42.17 42.26 1:24.43 27 31 Sébastien Beaulieu 42.52 42.00 1:24.52 28 30 Gian Casanova 42.33 42.80 1:25.13 29 28 Cody Winters 45.47 42.33 1:27.80 30 29 Elias Huber 42.15 49.01 1:31.16 31 24 Robert Burns 46.23 49.99 1:36.22 17 Dmitriy Karlagachev

Elimination round BracketsFinal results

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