Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's halfpipe

The women's halfpipe competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held from 12 to 13 February 2018 at the Bogwang Phoenix Park in Pyeongchang, South Korea.^[1][2]

Women's halfpipe at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Bogwang Phoenix Park
Date	12 February (qualification) 13 February (final)
Competitors	24 from 10 nations
Winning Score	98.25
Medalists
Chloe Kim  United States Liu Jiayu  China Arielle Gold  United States
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In the victory ceremony, the medals were presented by Larry Probst, member of the International Olympic Committee, accompanied by Dexter Paine, International Ski Federation vice president.

Qualification

Main article: Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

The top 24 athletes in the Olympic quota allocation list qualified, with a maximum of four athletes per National Olympic Committee (NOC) allowed. All athletes qualifying must also have placed in the top 30 of a FIS World Cup event or the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2017 during the qualification period (July 1, 2016 to January 21, 2018) and also have a minimum of 50 FIS points to compete. If the host country, South Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics did not qualify, their chosen athlete would displace the last qualified athlete, granted all qualification criterion was met.^[3]

Results

Qualification

Q — Qualified for the Final

The top 12 athletes in the qualifiers move on to the medal round.^[4]

Rank	Order	Name	Country	Run 1	Run 2	Best	Notes
1	3	Chloe Kim	United States	91.50	95.50	95.50	Q
2	10	Liu Jiayu	China	87.75	41.00	87.75	Q
3	11	Haruna Matsumoto	Japan	80.75	84.25	84.25	Q
4	1	Maddie Mastro	United States	83.75	76.00	83.75	Q
5	2	Queralt Castellet	Spain	71.50	45.50	71.50	Q
6	15	Cai Xuetong	China	65.75	69.00	69.00	Q
7	16	Sena Tomita	Japan	59.50	66.75	66.75	Q
8	5	Emily Arthur	Australia	30.25	66.50	66.50	Q
9	4	Sophie Rodriguez	France	65.00	13.50	65.00	Q
10	9	Mirabelle Thovex	France	62.25	64.25	64.25	Q
11	8	Kelly Clark	United States	41.00	63.25	63.25	Q
12	14	Arielle Gold	United States	17.50	62.75	62.75	Q
13	13	Holly Crawford	Australia	57.50	20.00	57.50
14	17	Verena Rohrer	Switzerland	16.50	55.00	55.00
15	6	Kurumi Imai	Japan	54.75	50.00	54.75
16	19	Qiu Leng	China	50.75	53.75	53.75
17	12	Hikaru Ōe	Japan	10.00	51.00	51.00
18	18	Mercedes Nicoll	Canada	50.00	48.00	50.00
19	20	Elizabeth Hosking	Canada	25.25	36.75	36.75
20	22	Kwon Sun-oo	South Korea	19.25	35.00	35.00
21	21	Kaja Verdnik	Slovenia	24.75	34.00	34.00
22	7	Li Shuang	China	24.50	9.25	24.50
23	24	Calynn Irwin	Canada	23.25	16.25	23.25
24	23	Clémence Grimal	France	14.25	13.00	14.25

Final

The final was held on 13 February at 11:00.^[5]

Rank	Order	Name	Country	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best	Notes
	12	Chloe Kim	United States	93.75	41.50	98.25	98.25
	11	Liu Jiayu	China	85.50	89.75	49.00	89.75
	1	Arielle Gold	United States	10.50	74.75	85.75	85.75
4	2	Kelly Clark	United States	76.25	81.75	83.50	83.50
5	7	Cai Xuetong	China	20.50	41.25	76.50	76.50
6	10	Haruna Matsumoto	Japan	70.00	46.25	65.75	70.00
7	8	Queralt Castellet	Spain	59.75	67.75	43.75	67.75
8	6	Sena Tomita	Japan	65.25	34.50	60.50	65.25
9	3	Mirabelle Thovex	France	59.50	30.25	63.00	63.00
10	4	Sophie Rodriguez	France	50.50	14.75	13.75	50.50
11	5	Emily Arthur	Australia	48.25	9.25	25.00	48.25
12	9	Maddie Mastro	United States	14.00	7.50	6.50	14.00