List of Olympic venues in snowboarding

For the Winter Olympics there are currently six venues that have been designated for snowboarding competitions.

Games Venue Other sports hosted at venue for those games Capacity Ref.
1998 Nagano Kanbayashi Snowboard Park (halfpipe) None 10,000 [1]
Mount Yakebitai (giant slalom) Alpine skiing (slalom) 20,000 [2]
2002 Salt Lake City Park City Mountain Resort Alpine skiing (giant slalom) 16,000 [3]
2006 Turin Bardonecchia None 6,763 [4]
2010 Vancouver Cypress Mountain Freestyle skiing 8,000 [5]
2014 Sochi Freestyle Skiing Center and Snowboard Park Freestyle skiing 8,000 [6]
Park City Mountain Resort hosted the snowboarding events for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

References

  1. 1998 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 209-11. Accessed 12 December 2010.
  2. 1998 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 194-7. Accessed 12 December 2010.
  3. 2002 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 1. pp. 78-9. Accessed 21 December 2010.
  4. 2006 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 3. pp. 59-60. Accessed 27 December 2010. (English) & (Italian)
  5. "VenuesCypress Mountain". Vancouver Organizing Committee. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
  6. Sochi2014.com profile of the Freestyle Skiing Center and Snowboard Park. Accessed 31 December 2010.
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