Flamboyant aerial movements aplenty, snowboarding is one of the most dynamic winter sports. It originates from fun attempts to surf down on snow-covered mountains in the United States in the 1960s. The following decade saw the sport flourish amongst young people with the introduction of snowboard, before the first official competition was held in Colorado in 1981.
The vogue crossed the Atlantic and became popular in Europe in the 1990s, and it was only a matter of time before snowboarding was chosen as an official discipline at Nagano 1998. In the Olympics, there are four disciplines in snowboarding: Snowboard Slopestyle, Snowboard Big Air, Snowboard Halfpipe and Snowboard Cross, with the most popular event being Halfpipe. The athletes show off their skills whilst coming down a U-shaped slope, as six referees evaluate each skill according to the criteria of basic movement, turns, difficulty and landing. The points are calculated as an average of the scores from four referees excluding the highest and the lowest, with the better result from two attempts counted as the final score.
In the Winter Youth Olympic Games Gangwon 2024, the events include Men’s/Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle, Snowboard Big Air, Snowboard Halfpipe, Snowboard Cross as well as Snowboard Cross Mixed Team.
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