Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

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The following is about the qualification rules and the quota allocation for the snowboarding events at the 2018 Winter Olympics.[1]

Qualification standard

An athlete must have placed in the top 30 at a World Cup event after July 2016 or at the

2017 World Championships
in that respective event and also have a maximum number of FIS points (100 for giant slalom and snowboard cross, 50 for the other three).

A total of 258 quota spots are available to athletes to compete at the games. A maximum of 26 athletes can be entered by a National Olympic Committee, with a maximum of 14 men or 14 women.

Allocation of quotas

At the end of the qualification period of 22 January 2018 quotas will be awarded using the Olympic Quota Allocation List (which includes all results of the World Cups from July 2016 and the results of the 2017 World Championship). The spots will be awarded to each country per athlete appearing on the list starting at number one per event until a maximum for each event is reached. Once an NOC has reached the maximum of 4 quota spots in an event, it will no longer be counted for the allocation of quotas. If a nation goes over the total of 14 per sex or 26 total it is up to that nation to select its team to meet the rules by January 24, 2018. Any vacated spots will be then awarded in that event starting from the first athlete not to be awarded a quota.

Current summary (as of 9 February 2018)
NOC Men Women Total
Parallel Halfpipe Snowboardcross Slopestyle/Big air Parallel Halfpipe Snowboardcross Slopestyle/Big air
 Andorra 1 1
 Argentina 1 1 2
 Australia 3 4 2 1 2 12
 Austria 4 4 1 4 1 14
 Belgium 3 3
 Brazil 1 1
 Bulgaria 1 1 1 3
 Canada 2 1 4 4 1 0 3 4 3 21
 China 2 3 4 9
 Czech Republic 1 1 1 3 2 8
 Finland 3 1 4 1 9
 France 1 4 3 4 1 13
 Germany 3 1 3 4 1 1 13
 Great Britain 3 1 2 1 5
 Ireland 1 1
 Italy 4 4 1 1 4 14
 Japan 2 1 4 1 2 3 1 4 4 16
 Netherlands 1 1 1 1 3
 New Zealand 1 1 2 1 5
 Norway 1 4 1 5
 Poland 1 1 3 1 6
 Olympic Athletes from Russia 4 1 2 2 4 3 2 1 16
 Slovakia 1 1
 Slovenia 3 2 1 1 7
 South Korea 3 3 1 2 1 1 11
 Spain 3 1 4
 Sweden 3 2 2
 Switzerland 3 4 2 4 4 1 3 4 25
 Ukraine 1 1
 United States 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 26
Total: 30 NOCs 32 30 40 40 31 24 30 30 257

Next eligible NOC per event

The following list shows the next ten (or less) in the allocation lists. If a country rejects a quota spot then additional quotas become available. A country can be eligible for more than one quota spot per event in the reallocation process. The numbers in brackets indicate the number of quotas to be reallocated, a strike through indicates no interest, and bolding indicates acceptance of the quota.

Men
Parallel (1 confirmed) Halfpipe Snowboard Cross (3 confirmed) Slopestyle/Big Air (1 confirmed)
 Slovenia
 Poland
 Canada
 China
 Germany
 United States
 Switzerland
 Switzerland
 Poland
 South Korea
 New Zealand
 Canada
 Germany
 Olympic Athletes from Russia
 China
 Italy
 South Korea
 South Korea
 France
 Canada
 Switzerland
 Argentina
 Spain
 Netherlands
 Canada
 Germany
 Olympic Athletes from Russia
 Olympic Athletes from Russia
 Switzerland
 Japan
 Italy
 Argentina
 Slovenia
 Great Britain
 France
 Austria
 Austria
 Italy
 Germany
 France
Women
Parallel (2 confirmed, 1 unused) Halfpipe Snowboard Cross (1 confirmed) Slopestyle/Big Air (1 available)
 China
 Canada
 Bulgaria
 Slovenia
 Italy
 United States
 Italy
 Canada
 Malta
 Germany
 Australia
 South Korea
 New Zealand
 Canada
 Poland
 Switzerland
 Slovenia
 Austria
 Switzerland
 Great Britain
 Germany
 Olympic Athletes from Russia

 Czech Republic
 Andorra
 Austria
 Czech Republic
 Germany
 New Zealand
 Slovenia
 Netherlands
 New Zealand
 Chile
 Olympic Athletes from Russia
 Norway
 Croatia

References

  1. ^ "Schedule". POCOG. Archived from the original on 5 November 2017. Retrieved 20 October 2017.

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