Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox Olympic event Template:Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics The snowboarding competition of the 1998 Winter Olympics was held at Mount Yakebitai and Kanbayashi Snowboard Park. The competition took place between 8 and 12 February 1998 and featured four events: Men's and Women's giant slalom and halfpipe.<ref name=OfficialReport>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="SR">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

This was the first Olympic appearance of snowboarding. Although a separate snowboard federation was established in 1994, the International Ski Federation brought snowboard under its jurisdiction with encouragement from the IOC.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Medal summary

Medal table

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Men's events

Giant slalom<ref name=OfficialReport/>
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Template:FlagIOCmedalist 2:03.96 Template:FlagIOCmedalist 2:03.98 Template:FlagIOCmedalist 2:04.08
Halfpipe<ref name=OfficialReport/>
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Template:FlagIOCmedalist 85.2 Template:FlagIOCmedalist 82.4 Template:FlagIOCmedalist 82.1

Women's events

Giant slalom<ref name=OfficialReport/>
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Template:FlagIOCmedalist 2:17.34 Template:FlagIOCmedalist 2:19.17 Template:FlagIOCmedalist 2:19.42
Halfpipe<ref name=OfficialReport/>
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Template:FlagIOCmedalist 74.6 Template:FlagIOCmedalist 74.2 Template:FlagIOCmedalist 72.8

Participating nations

Twenty-two nations participated in snowboarding at the Nagano Games.<ref name=OfficialReport/>

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