Snowboard World Championships 1996

Snowboard World Championships 1996
	Men's	Ladies
winner
Parallel slalom	Ivo Rudiferia	Marion Posch
Giant slalom	Jeff Greenwood	Karine Ruby
halfpipe	Ross Powers	Carolien van Kilsdonk
Competitions
Venues	Lienz , Austria
Individual competitions	3	3
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The 1st FIS Snowboard World Championships took place from January 24th to 28th, 1996 in Lienz ( Austria ). The opening was held on January 20th at 7 p.m. by FIS President Marc Hodler . In the run-up to this event, a merger with the ISF , whose professionals were missing here, had been hoped.

Men

halfpipe

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Ross Powers
2	United States	Lael Gregory
3	United States	Rob Kingwill

Date: January 24, 1996

Ivan Zeller (8.)

Max Steinhauser (12.)

Giant slalom

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Jeff Greenwood
2	United States	Mike Jacoby
3	Austria	Helmut Pramstaller

Date: January 27, 1996
Dieter Moherndl (5th) Stefan Kaltschütz (12.) Rupert Wallinger (14th) Willi Schiedermeier (18th)	Rainer Krug (41st) Mathias Behounek (42nd) Bernd Kroschewski (44th)

Parallel slalom

space	country	athlete
2	Italy	Ivo Rudiferia
2	Germany	Rainer Krug
3	Austria	Helmut Pramstaller

Date: January 28, 1996

Stefan Kaltschuetz (6th)

Dieter Moherndl (7.)

Matthias Behounek (9th)

Willi Schiedermeier (15.)

Women

halfpipe

space	country	athlete
1	Netherlands	Carolien van Kilsdonk
2	United States	Annemarie Uliasz
3	United States	Cammy Potter

Date: January 24, 1996

no starters from DA-CH-L

Giant slalom

space	country	athlete
1	France	Karine Ruby
2	Austria	Manuela Riegler
3	United States	Sondra van Ert

Date: January 26, 1996
Ursula Fingerlos (4.) Birgit Herbert (5th) Amalie Kulawik (6th) Maria Kirchgasser-Pichler (9th)	Isabell Zedlacher (13.) Alexander Krings (14.) Steffi Prentl (15.) Tanja Fischer (21.)

Parallel slalom

space	country	athlete
1	Italy	Marion Posch
2	Netherlands	Marcella Boerma
3	United States	Sondra van Ert

Date: January 28, 1996
Heidi Renoth (4th) Steffi Prentl (5th) Amalie Kulawik (6th) Isabel Zedlacher (7th) Birgit Herbert (10.)	Maria Kirchgasser-Pichler (11th) Alexandra Krings (15.) Ursula Fingerlos (16.) Manuela Riegler (17th)

Medal table

space	country
1	United States	2	3	4th	9
2	Italy	2	0	0	2
3	Netherlands	1	1	0	2
4th	France	1	0	0	1
5	Austria	0	1	2	3
6th	Germany	0	1	0	1
total		6th	6th	6th	18th

Web links

• Snowboard World Championships 1996 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "A 'Wildschütz' on gentle paws" in "Kronenzeitung" of January 21, 1996, page 8 from the back
2. ^ "Secret meeting of FIS and ISF in Lienz" in "Kronenzeitung" of January 20, 1996, page 9 from the back; POS .: first box below (colored blue)
3. ^ "Lienz or the end in the 'war of faith'" in "Kronenzeitung" of January 21, 1996, page 9 from the back