This week's FIS Snowboard World Cup features the same four events as the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Games — the men's and women's halfpipe competitions and the men's and women's parallel giant slalom races. And they'll be contested at Park City Mountain Resort at the same venue sites as the 2002 Winter Games — the new superpipe at Eagle Race Arena and C.B.'s Run.
Listed below are the four events and their respective dates and times of competition this week. Also included are the medalists from last month's 2001 World Championships in Italy and the leaders in the current FIS (International Ski Federation) World Cup standings as well as U.S. snowboarders in the top 40).
Note that a number of top snowboarders — such as 1998 Olympic halfpipe bronze medalist Ross Powers of the United States — compete on the rival International Snowboard Federation (IFS) but will join this week's events at Park City.
Thursday, March 1
Superpipe qualifications, 9 a.m.
Superpipe finals, 2 p.m.
Friday, March 2
Quarterpipe exhibition, 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 4
Parallel giant slalom qualifications, 9:30 a.m.
Parallel giant slalom finals, 1 p.m.
Men's halfpipe
2001 World Championships
Gold: Kim Christiansen, Norway
Silver: Daniel Franck, Norway
Bronze: Markus Hurme, Finland
World Cup standings
1. Magnus Sterner, Sweden
2. Stefan Karlsson, Sweden
3. Jan Michaelis, Germany
5. Tommy Czeschin, USA
36. Rob Kingwill, USA
40. Ross Powers, USA
Previous Park City winners:
1999: Ross Powers, USA
2000: Tommy Czeschin, USA
Women's halfpipe
2001 World Championships
Gold: Doriane Vidal, France
Silver: Stine B. Kjeldaas, Norway
Bronze: Sari Gronholm, Finland
World Cup standings
1. Sabine Wehr-Hasler, Germany
2. Stine B. Kjeldaas, Norway
3. Lesley McKenna, Great Britain
7. Kelly Clark, USA
11. Gretchen Bleiler, USA
16. Tricia Byrnes, USA
33. Michelle Taggart, USA
Previous Park City winners:
1999: Tricia Byrnes, USA
2000: Tricia Byrnes, USA
Men's parallel giant slalom
2001 World Championships
Gold: Gilles Jaquet, Switzerland
Silver: Daniel Biveson, Sweden
Bronze: Stefan Kaltschuetz, Austria
World Cup standings
1. Mathieu Bozzetto, France
2. Nicolas Huet, France
3. Richard Rikardsson, Sweden
11. Christopher Klug, USA
20. Jeff Greenwood, USA
28. Anton Pogue, USA
Previous Park City winners:
1999: Stefan Kaltschuetz, Austria
2000: Dieter Krassing, Austria
Women's parallel giant slalom
2001 World Championships
Gold: Ursula Bruhin, Switzerland
Silver: Rosey Fletcher, USA
Bronze: Manuela Riegler, Austria
World Cup standings
1. Carmen Ranigler, Italy
2. Karine Ruby, France
3. Rosey Fletcher, USA
21. Sondra Van Ert, USA
27. Lisa D. Kosglow, USA
31. Stacia Hookom, USA
40. Erin O'Malley, USA
Previous Park City winners:
1999: Margherita Parini, Italy
2000: Margherita Parini, Italy