Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's parallel giant slalom

Men's parallel giant slalom at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Bardonecchia
Date	February 22, 2006
Competitors	36 from 14 nations
Medalists
Philipp Schoch   Switzerland   Simon Schoch   Switzerland   Siegfried Grabner   Austria

Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Halfpipe		men		women
Parallel giant slalom		men		women
Snowboard cross		men		women

The men's parallel giant slalom event in snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Bardonecchia, a village in the Province of Turin, Italy. The competition took place on February 22, 2006.

Medalists

Gold	Philipp Schoch  Switzerland
Silver	Simon Schoch  Switzerland
Bronze	Siegfried Grabner  Austria

Qualification

The qualification runs started at 10 a.m.(UTC+1)

The athletes were allowed two runs, one on the blue course and one on the red course. The two times were added, and the top 16 snowboarders moved on to the 1/8 finals.^[1]

Rank	Bib	Name	Nationality	Blue course (time)	Rank	Red course (time)	Rank	Total time
1	12	Simon Schoch	Switzerland	33.98	1	35.40	5	1:09.38
2	15	Philipp Schoch	Switzerland	35.42	11	34.41	1	1:09.83
3	3	Heinz Inniger	Switzerland	35.51	12	34.45	2	1:09.96
4	2	Andreas Prommegger	Austria	34.37	2	35.98	10	1:10.35
5	4	Gilles Jaquet	Switzerland	34.55	3	35.92	8	1:10.47
6	13	Siegfried Grabner	Austria	35.66	13	34.99	4	1:10.65
7	16	Nicolas Huet	France	34.67	4	36.05	11	1:10.72
8	14	Dejan Kosir	Slovenia	34.84	6	36.22	15	1:11.06
9	8	Tyler Jewell	United States	34.96	7	36.17	14	1:11.13
10	1	Rok Flander	Slovenia	36.38	20	34.80	3	1:11.18
11	6	Richard Richardsson	Sweden	34.76	5	36.70	21	1:11.46
12	22	Roland Fischnaller	Italy	35.15	8	36.46	17	1:11.61
13	5	Mathieu Bozzetto	France	35.38	9	36.64	19	1:12.02
14	10	Harald Walder	Austria	35.40	10	36.71	22	1:12.11
15	21	Emanuel Oppliger	Australia	35.56	24	35.55	6	1:12.11
16	7	Daniel Biveson	Sweden	36.07	14	36.08	12	1:12.15
17	19	Markus Ebner	Germany	36.32	16	35.90	7	1:12.22
18	18	Denis Salagaev	Russia	36.36	18	35.96	8	1:12.32
19	23	Patrick Bussler	Germany	36.42	22	36.12	13	1:12.54
20	11	Jasey Jay Anderson	Canada	36.18	15	35.57	18	1:12.75
21	26	Izidor Sustersic	Slovenia	36.32	16	36.64	19	1:12.96
22	9	Meinhard Erlacher	Italy	36.88	26	36.34	16	1:13.22
23	29	Filip Fischer	Sweden	36.46	23	36.97	23	1:13.43
24	27	Simone Salvati	Italy	36.39	21	37.09	24	1:13.48
25	24	Alexandr Belkin	Russia	36.66	25	37.38	25	1:14.04
26	25	Tomaz Knafelj	Slovenia	36.37	19	38.50	28	1:14.87
27	31	Radoslav Židek	Slovakia	38.30	28	38.21	26	1:16.51
28	30	Kentaro Tsuruoka	Japan	39.71	29	38.43	27	1:18.14
29	20	Philippe Berubé	Canada	36.88	26	53.15	30	1:30.03
30	17	Alexander Maier	Austria	-	DSQ	40.57	29
-	28	Rudi Galli	Italy	-	DSQ	-	-

Elimination round

The elimination round started at 1 p.m.(UTC+1)^[2]

Medal round

Round of 16

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

1

S. Schoch (SUI)

16

Biveson (SWE)

+0.52

1

S. Schoch (SUI)

8

Kosir (SLO)

8

Kosir (SLO)

+1.27

9

Jewell (USA)

+0.30

1

S. Schoch (SUI)

5

Jaquet (SUI)

13

Bozzetto (FRA)

+0.38

12

Fischnaller (ITA)

+0.51

5

Jaquet (SUI)

+1.54

4

Prommegger (AUT)

+0.54

13

Bozzetto (FRA)

13

Bozzetto (FRA)

1

S. Schoch (SUI)

+0.73

3

Inniger (SUI)

2

P. Schoch (SUI)

14

Walder (AUT)

+0.66

3

Inniger (SUI)

+0.61

6

Grabner (AUT)

6

Grabner (AUT)

11

Richardsson (SWE)

+1.44

6

Grabner (AUT)

+0.34

7

Huet (FRA)

+0.53

2

P. Schoch (SUI)

10

Flander (SLO)

10

Flander (SLO)

+1.07

Third place

2

P. Schoch (SUI)

2

P. Schoch (SUI)

13

Bozzetto (FRA)

+0.41

15

Oppliger (AUS)

+1.37

6

Grabner (AUT)

Classification 5–8

	Placement 5–8
	8	Kosir (SLO)
	5	Jaquet (SUI)	DSQ			Placement 5–6
						5	Jaquet (SUI)	+0.41
	Placement 5–8				10	Flander (SLO)
	3	Inniger (SUI)
	10	Flander (SLO)	+0.14			Placement 7–8
						8	Kosir (SLO)	+0.42
						3	Inniger (SUI)

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