Cai Xuetong

Cai Xuetong
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	26th September 1993 (age 26)
place of birth	Harbin , China
size	161 cm
Weight	55 kg
Career
discipline	halfpipe
Trainer	Li bug
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 2 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × X-Games 0 × 1 × 2 ×
Snowboard world championships gold 2015 Kreischberg halfpipe gold 2017 Sierra Nevada halfpipe silver 2019 Park City halfpipe  Snowboard Junior World Championships gold 2009 Nagano halfpipe  X-Games bronze 2016 Aspen SuperPipe silver 2017 Aspen SuperPipe bronze 2019 Aspen SuperPipe
Placements
World cup
Debut in the World Cup August 26, 2009  World Cup victories 12  Overall World Cup 14th ( 2009/10 )  Freestyle World Cup 1. ( 2010/11 , 2011/12 , 2019/20 )  Halfpipe World Cup 1. (2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2015/16 , 2018/19 , 2019/20)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  halfpipe 12 8th 7th
last change: April 12, 2020

Cai Xuetong ( Chinese 蔡雪桐 ; born September 26, 1993 in Harbin ) is a Chinese snowboarder who became a halfpipe junior world champion in 2009 and won several World Cups in the following winters.

Career

The first competition organized by the FIS in which Cai participated was an Asia Cup race in December 2008. The then 15-year-old Chinese took fourth place there. A little later she started at the Snowboard World Championships 2009 in Gangwon , South Korea , where she placed 27th in the lower midfield. In the same winter, she won the junior world champion title in Nagano by relegating Spaniard Queralt Castellet to second place in the final by a clear margin. In the following season 2009/10 Cai made his debut in the World Cup and in November 2009 came second on the podium in her second competition in Saas-Fee . As part of this competition, which marked the beginning of the Olympic winter, the 16-year-old Chinese expressed confidence about the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver : She will continue to train a lot and hope to be able to show a great performance at the Olympics.

As the season progressed, Cai kept her results at this level and was able to achieve her first World Cup victory in January 2010 in Stoneham . She benefited from the fact that only 14 athletes took part in the competition and the three Chinese women therefore dominated the competition. After the first round, Cai was still third behind her two-year-old teammates Sun Zhifeng and Chen Xu ; in the second run she showed jumps that were as high as those of the male halfpipe athletes, which made them win the competition. At the last pre-Olympic World Cup in Calgary , Cai finished second behind her compatriot Sun, so she also won the Halfpipe Discipline World Cup with 3040 points. The Olympic premiere of the 16-year-olds ended less successfully. In Vancouver she missed the qualification for the final and finally finished 23rd position.

At the start of the 2010/11 World Cup, Cai did well again: In Saas-Fee, where she stood on the podium for the first time the year before, she has now won her second World Cup race ahead of her teammate Sun Zhifeng. At the Snowboard World Championships 2011 in La Molina she came in sixth place. At the following Winter Universiade 2011 in Erzurum she won the gold medal. Further World Cup victories in Stoneham and Calgary followed in February 2011 . As in the previous year, she finished the season in first place in the halfpipe rating and for the first time in first place in the Freestyle World Cup. The following season she won in Cardrona and Stoneham and again won the halfpipe and the Freestyle World Cup.

In the 2013/14 season, Cai came second in Cardrona . In her first Olympic participation in Sochi in 2014 , she reached sixth place. At the 2015 Snowboard World Championships in Kreischberg , she became world champion in the halfpipe. In February 2015 she won gold at the Winter Universiade 2015 in Sierra Nevada . At the last World Cup race in Park City in the 2014/15 season , she finished third and finished third in the Halfpipe World Cup. At the beginning of the 2015/16 season , she won her seventh World Cup in Cardrona . In January 2016 she won the bronze medal in the Superpipe competition at the Winter X Games in Aspen . At the World Cup in Sapporo , she won her second World Cup victory of the season and thus also won the Halfpipe World Cup. In March 2016 she came in second at the Burton US Open in Vail and at the end of the season she finished second in the Freestyle World Cup and first place in the Halfpipe World Cup. After finishing second on the US Revolution Tour in Copper Mountain at the beginning of the 2016/17 season, she took third place at the World Cup in Copper Mountain, Laax and Pyeongchang and thus achieved fourth place in the Halfpipe World Cup. She won the silver medal at the Winter X Games 2017 . In February 2017 she won the silver medal at the Winter Asian Games 2017 in Sapporo. The following month she won the gold medal at the Snowboard World Championships in Sierra Nevada . In the 2017/18 season, with third place in the Secret Garden Resort and second place in Laax, she reached eighth place in the Freestyle World Cup and third place in the Halfpipe World Cup. She finished fifth at the 2018 Winter X Games in Aspen and the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

After finishing third in Copper Mountain at the beginning of the 2018/19 season, she won the Secret Garden Ski Resort and Mammoth . In addition, he came second in Calgary and won the Halfpipe World Cup. She finished third in the Freestyle World Cup. She won the bronze medal at the Winter X Games 2019 and the silver medal at the 2019 Snowboard World Championships in Park City . In early March 2019 she came in third at the US Open in Vail . In the 2019/20 season she won the Freestyle and the Halfpipe World Cup with two second and two first places. She also won the Burton US Open and finished fourth in the Winter X Games 2020 .

Web links

• Cai Xuetong in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Profile of Cai Xuetong on the Ticket to Ride World Snowboard Tour
• Cai Xuetong in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cai Xuetong on vancouver2010.com.
2. ↑ World Cup Half Pipe winners in Saas Fee on xtremesport4u.com. Released November 6, 2009. Accessed November 7, 2010.
3. ↑ Xuetong Cai and Janne Korpi win the halfpipe night final in Stoneham on reportagen.sport-heute.ch. Released January 23, 2010. Accessed November 7, 2010.
4. ↑ Result of the Halfpipe Winter Asian Games 2017

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Cai is the family name here, Xuetong is the first name.