Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Snowboarding at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Bardonecchia
Dates	February 12–23
No. of events	6
Competitors	187 from 24 nations

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

The 2006 Winter Olympic Games Snowboarding competition consisted of men's and women's halfpipe, parallel giant slalom and snowboard cross events.

Medal summary

Medal table

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	3	3	1	7
2	Switzerland (SUI)	3	1	0	4
3	Germany (GER)	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	0	1
5	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1

Men's events

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Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Halfpipe	Shaun White  United States	Danny Kass  United States	Markku Koski  Finland
Parallel giant slalom	Philipp Schoch  Switzerland	Simon Schoch  Switzerland	Siegfried Grabner  Austria
Snowboard cross	Seth Wescott  United States	Radoslav Židek  Slovakia	Paul-Henri de Le Rue  France

Women's events

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Halfpipe	Hannah Teter  United States		Gretchen Bleiler  United States		Kjersti Buaas  Norway
Parallel giant slalom	Daniela Meuli  Switzerland		Amelie Kober  Germany		Rosey Fletcher  United States
Snowboard cross	Tanja Frieden  Switzerland		Lindsey Jacobellis  United States		Dominique Maltais  Canada

Participating NOCs

Australia (9)  Austria (12)  Brazil (1)  Bulgaria (1)  Canada (16)  China (2)  Czech Republic (3)  Spain (5)  Finland (5)  France (16)  Germany (11)  Great Britain (4)

Italy (16)  Japan (13)  Netherlands (2)  Norway (4)  New Zealand (3)  Poland (6)  Russia (8)  Slovenia (4)  Slovakia (1)  Sweden (13)  Switzerland (16)  United States (16)

References

1. "Torino 2006 Official Report - Snowboarding" (PDF). Torino Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. March 2009. Retrieved May 20, 2009.