Snowboarding at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Mount Yakebitai (giant slalom) & Kanbayashi Snowboard Park (halfpipe)
Dates	8–12 February 1998
Competitors	125 from 22 nations
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Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Halfpipe	men	women
Giant slalom	men	women
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The snowboarding competition of the 1998 Winter Olympics was held at Mount Yakebitai and Kanbayashi Snowboard Park. The competition took place between 8 and 12 February 1998 and featured four events: Men's and Women's giant slalom and halfpipe.^[1][2]

This was the first Olympic appearance of snowboarding. Although a separate snowboard federation was established in 1994, the International Ski Federation brought snowboard under its jurisdiction with encouragement from the IOC.^[3]

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	1	1	0	2
2	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	1	2
3	Canada (CAN)	1	0	0	1
	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
5	Norway (NOR)	0	2	0	2
6	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
7	United States (USA)	0	0	2	2
8	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		4	4	4	12

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Giant slalom[1] details	Ross Rebagliati  Canada	2:03.96	Thomas Prugger  Italy	2:03.98	Ueli Kestenholz  Switzerland	2:04.08
Halfpipe[1] details	Gian Simmen  Switzerland	85.2	Daniel Franck  Norway	82.4	Ross Powers  United States	82.1

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Giant slalom[1] details	Karine Ruby  France	2:17.34	Heidi Renoth  Germany	2:19.17	Brigitte Köck  Austria	2:19.42
Halfpipe[1] details	Nicola Thost  Germany	74.6	Stine Brun Kjeldaas  Norway	74.2	Shannon Dunn-Downing  United States	72.8

Participating nations

Twenty-two nations participated in snowboarding at the Nagano Games.^[1]