The women's slopestyle competition in snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 5 February (qualification) and 6 February (final), at the Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou.

Summary Jamie Anderson won both previous slopestyle events at the Olympics, in 2014 and 2018, and qualified for the 2022 Olympics to defend her title. The 2018 silver medalist, Laurie Blouin, and the bronze medalist, Enni Rukajärvi, qualified at the Olympics as well. At the 2021–22 FIS Snowboard World Cup, only three slopestyle events were held before the Olympics. Kokomo Murase was leading the ranking, followed by Melissa Peperkamp and Reira Iwabuchi. Zoi Sadowski-Synnott is the 2021 world champion, with Jamie Anderson and Tess Coady being the silver and bronze medalists, respectively. Zoi Sadowski-Synnott is also the 2022 X Games winner, ahead of Jamie Anderson and Miyabi Onitsuka.

Zoi Sadowski-Synnott won the gold medal, becoming the first person from New Zealand to win a Winter Olympic gold medal. Julia Marino of the United States and Tess Coady of Australia won silver and bronze, respectively. For Marino and Coady, this was the first Olympic medals.

Qualification

A total of 30 snowboarders qualified to compete at the games. For an athlete to compete they must have a minimum of 50.00 FIS points in Big Air or Slopestyle on the FIS Points List on 17 January 2022 and a top 30 finish in a World Cup event in Big Air or slopestyle or at the FIS Snowboard World Championships 2021. A country could enter a maximum of four athletes into the event.

Results Qualification Q — Qualified for the Final

The top 12 athletes in the qualifiers advanced to the Final.Qualification results Rank Bib Order Name Country Run 1 Run 2 Best Notes 1 1 2 Zoi Sadowski-Synnott 73.58 86.75 86.75 Q 2 6 10 Kokomo Murase 74.95 81.45 81.45 Q 3 3 1 Enni Rukajärvi 66.75 78.83 78.83 Q 4 4 4 Anna Gasser 50.71 75.00 75.00 Q 5 2 5 Jamie Anderson 74.35 53.26 74.35 Q 6 9 19 Julia Marino 2.91 71.78 71.78 Q 7 8 17 Laurie Blouin 66.85 71.55 71.55Q 8 5 3 Tess Coady 55.98 71.13 71.13 Q 9 12 9 Hailey Langland 28.31 68.71 68.71 Q 10 11 24 Annika Morgan 29.61 67.63 67.63 Q 11 7 14 Reira Iwabuchi 48.51 67.00 67.00 Q 12 19 28 Ariane Burri 33.15 65.55 65.55 Q 13 10 18 Melissa Peperkamp 61.26 60.18 61.26 14 13 22 Evy Poppe 47.08 56.80 56.80 15 14 20 Jasmine Baird 49.50 14.41 49.50 16 22 8 Hanne Eilertsen 48.35 35.30 48.35 17 16 23 Courtney Rummel 37.18 48.30 48.30 18 17 6 Katie Ormerod 47.38 44.01 47.38 19 20 13 Miyabi Onitsuka 42.60 46.58 46.58 20 21 27 Bianca Gisler 40.35 38.43 40.35 21 26 7 Carola Niemelä 22.36 38.43 38.43 22 18 26 Brooke Voigt 37.11 12.78 37.11 23 15 30 Cool Wakushima 34.46 DNS 34.46 24 29 29 Urška Pribošič 27.48 32.00 32.00 25 28 11 Rong Ge 29.36 13.01 29.36 26 23 21 Šárka Pančochová 25.51 17.18 25.51 27 25 12 Lucile Lefevre 23.16 21.98 23.16 28 31 25 Kamilla Kozuback 21.95 19.58 21.95 27 15 Klaudia Medlová Did not start 30 16 Lea Jugovac

Final Final results Rank Bib Order Name Country Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Best 1 12 Zoi Sadowski-Synnott 84.51 28.15 92.88 92.88 9 7 Julia Marino 30.61 87.68 60.35 87.68 5 5 Tess Coady 82.68 55.98 84.15 84.15 4 8 6 Laurie Blouin 77.96 46.70 81.41 81.41 5 7 2 Reira Iwabuchi 75.60 80.03 46.15 80.03 6 4 9 Anna Gasser 35.01 43.58 75.33 75.33 7 3 10 Enni Rukajärvi 30.51 71.45 23.43 71.45 8 11 3 Annika Morgan 64.13 31.01 28.76 64.13 9 2 8 Jamie Anderson 22.98 60.78 36.88 60.78 10 6 11 Kokomo Murase 48.50 49.05 48.00 49.05 11 12 4 Hailey Langland 32.05 48.35 29.93 48.35 12 19 1 Ariane Burri 21.40 24.01 18.86 24.01

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