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Parallel Giant Slalom, Women

Date19 February 2014
StatusOlympic
LocationEkstrim-Park Rosa Khutor, Krasnaya Polyana / Ekstrim-Park Rosa Khutor, Krasnaya Polyana
Participants32 from 15 countries
Course SetterDenis TikhomirovRUS
DetailsGates: 29
Length: 650 m
Start Altitude: 1175 m
Vertical Drop: 155 m

The 2013/14 World Cup leader was Switzerland’s Patrizia Kummer who managed to avoid any falls on an icy, bumpy giant slalom course, and stayed up to win the gold medal. In the final Kummer defeated Japan’s Tomoka Takeuchi, the first Asian woman to win an Olympic snowboarding medal. The bronze went to 2011 World Champion, and the home crowd favorite, Alyona Zavarzina, whose husband, American expatriate Vic Wild, won the men’s parallel GS five minutes later.

The boarders faced a new course on the day of the event as it was changed after training because of course conditions. The difficult course saw many favorites crash out, including defending champion Nicolien Sauerbreij of the Netherlands, the 2013 World Champion Isabella Laböck of Germany, Russian silver medalist from 2010 Yekaterina Ilyukhina, and Austrian Marion Kreiner, the Vancouver bronze medalist.

PosCompetitorNOC
1Patrizia KummerSUIGold
2Tomoka TakeuchiJPNSilver
3Alyona ZavarzinaRUSBronze
4Ina MeschikAUT
5Marianne LeesonCAN
6Caroline CalvéCAN
7Ester LedeckáCZE
8Ariane LavigneCAN
9Julie ZoggSUI
10Nicolien SauerbreijNED
11Claudia RieglerAUT
12Yekaterina IlyukhinaRUS
13Selina JörgGER
14Ladina JennySUI
15Yekaterina TudegeshevaRUS
16Corinna BoccaciniITA
17Stefanie MüllerSUI
18Isabella LaböckGER
19Hilde Katrine EngeliNOR
20Marion KreinerAUT
21Annamari ChundakUKR
22Michelle DekkerNED
23Valeriya TsoyKAZ
24Gloria KotnikSLO
25Anke KarstensGER
26Nadya OchnerITA
27Nina MicićSRB
28Karolina SztokfiszPOL
29Julia DujmovitsAUT
30Amelie KoberGER
DQNataliya SobolevaRUS
DQAleksandra KrólPOL

Qualifying Round

Date19 February 2014 — 9:15
PosCompetitorNOCTime
1Tomoka TakeuchiJPN1:46.33Q
2Patrizia KummerSUI1:46.62Q
3Julie ZoggSUI1:47.11Q
4Nicolien SauerbreijNED1:47.22Q
5Marianne LeesonCAN1:47.41Q
6Alyona ZavarzinaRUS1:47.65Q
7Claudia RieglerAUT1:48.62Q
8Caroline CalvéCAN1:48.79Q
9Yekaterina IlyukhinaRUS1:49.02Q
10Ester LedeckáCZE1:49.17Q
11Selina JörgGER1:49.64Q
12Ladina JennySUI1:50.41Q
13Ina MeschikAUT1:51.32Q
14Ariane LavigneCAN1:51.69Q
15Yekaterina TudegeshevaRUS1:51.77Q
16Corinna BoccaciniITA1:51.85Q
17Stefanie MüllerSUI1:51.98
18Isabella LaböckGER1:52.01
19Hilde Katrine EngeliNOR1:52.29
20Marion KreinerAUT1:52.40
21Annamari ChundakUKR1:53.71
22Michelle DekkerNED1:53.74
23Valeriya TsoyKAZ1:54.57
24Gloria KotnikSLO1:57.68
25Anke KarstensGER1:59.29
26Nadya OchnerITA1:59.88
27Nina MicićSRB2:04.94
28Karolina SztokfiszPOL2:08.40
29Julia DujmovitsAUT
30Amelie KoberGER
DQNataliya SobolevaRUS
DQAleksandra KrólPOL

Eighth-Finals

Date19 February 2014 — 13:00
FormatWinner of each heat advance to quarter-finals.

Heat #1

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Tomoka TakeuchiJPNQ
2Corinna BoccaciniITA+1.07+1.93

Heat #2

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Caroline CalvéCANQ
2Yekaterina IlyukhinaRUS+1.50+0.03

Heat #3

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Marianne LeesonCANQ
2Ladina JennySUI+0.51+0.30

Heat #4

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Ina MeschikAUT+0.30Q
2Nicolien SauerbreijNED+0.05

Heat #5

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Ariane LavigneCAN+0.91Q
2Julie ZoggSUI+0.12

Heat #6

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Alyona ZavarzinaRUS+0.04Q
2Selina JörgGER+13.53

Heat #7

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Ester LedeckáCZEQ
2Claudia RieglerAUT+0.24+0.49

Heat #8

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Patrizia KummerSUIQ
2Yekaterina TudegeshevaRUS+1.50+0.76

Quarter-Finals

Date19 February 2014 — 13:48
FormatWinner of each heat advance to semi-finals, loser advance to classification round.

Heat #1

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Tomoka TakeuchiJPNQ
2Caroline CalvéCAN+0.74+4.00

Heat #2

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Ina MeschikAUT+0.65Q
2Marianne LeesonCAN+0.30

Heat #3

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Alyona ZavarzinaRUS+0.11Q
2Ariane LavigneCAN+7.27

Heat #4

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Patrizia KummerSUI+0.57Q
2Ester LedeckáCZE+0.30

Semi-Finals

Date19 February 2014 — 14:15
FormatWinner of each heat advance to final.

Heat #1

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Tomoka TakeuchiJPNQ
2Ina MeschikAUT+1.01DQ

Heat #2

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Patrizia KummerSUI+0.04Q
2Alyona ZavarzinaRUSDQ

Final Round

Date19 February 2014 — 14:31

Heat 1/2

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Patrizia KummerSUI+0.30
2Tomoka TakeuchiJPN+7.32

Heat 3/4

PosCompetitorNOCRun 1Run 2
1Alyona ZavarzinaRUS+0.01
2Ina MeschikAUT+0.82