The men's halfpipe event in freestyle skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics took place on 20 and 22 February 2018 at the Bogwang Phoenix Park, Pyeongchang, South Korea. The top 30 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.
Ayumu Hirano, the 2014 silver medalist, took silver. Scott James became the bronze medalist. For James, this is the first Olympic medal, and this was also the second medal for Australia at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
18-degreeThe Olympic standards require a 600-foot-long run at an 18-degree pitch and U-shaped walls that are 22 feet high and 64 feet apart from lip to lip.
How is halfpipe scored? A snowboarder's score is determined by a panel of six judges, who will rank the halfpipe run on a scale that goes up to 100. The lowest and highest scores from the judges are removed, and the remaining four scores are averaged together to give the athletes their score for that run.
600 feet longBy Olympic standards, the U-shaped ramp used in halfpipe must be 600 feet long, with an 18-degree pitch, according to The New York Times.
Shaun WhiteShaun White delivered the run of a lifetime in the men's snowboard halfpipe final, landing a consecutive combo of 1440s for a record 97.75 score to win his third gold and the 100th in Team USA's Winter Olympic history.
The big difference is switch. Skiing is orders of magnitude more difficult to go switch in the pipe. Regular people don't know this so it is lost on the general public. Plus most people know nothing about skiing and think snowboarding is super tight and skiing is lame.
The gates are still farther apart in the Super-G (100 to 130 feet [30 to 40 metres] apart), with riders often reaching speeds of 60 miles (97 km) per hour.
Overview. The structure resembles a cross-section of a swimming pool, essentially two concave ramps (or quarter-pipes), topped by copings and decks, facing each other across a flat transition, also known as a tranny. Originally half-pipes were half sections of a large diameter pipe.
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19 to 22mThe dimensions of the halfpipe are regulated at the Olympics. According to the 2018 PyeongChang Games' official website, the dimensions are "a slope length of minimum 150 and recommended 170m, a halfpipe width of 19 to 22m, and a height of 6.7m." The "average inclination" is also relegated to 17 or 18 degrees.
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With a thumb sprained on an over-rotated backside 1080 in the second qualifying run, White clinched the event with the first of his two runs in the finals. His first finals run was awarded the highest score ever in FIS halfpipe, a 47.3.
Shaun White kicked off the final event of his snowboarding career with a 72.00 score in the men's halfpipe final on Thursday.