Snowboard World Championships 2003

winner
Snowboard World Championships 2003
	Men's	Ladies
Snowboard cross	France Xavier de Le Rue	France Karine Ruby
halfpipe	Switzerland Markus Keller	France Doriane Vidal
Parallel slalom	Austria Siegfried Grabner	France Isabelle Blanc
Parallel giant slalom	Slovenia Dejan Košir	Switzerland Ursula Bruhin
Big Air	Finland Risto Mattila	only men
Competitions
Venues	Kreischberg , Austria

Individual competitions	5	4th
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The 5th FIS Snowboard World Championships took place from January 12th to 19th, 2003 at Kreischberg near Murau ( Austria ).

Men

Parallel giant slalom

The men's slalom competitions had the largest field of participants in the world championships with 82 athletes. In the parallel giant slalom , only 16 qualified for the round of 16. Eight of them made it to the semi-finals and four made it to the final. There they competed against each other for the medals, while the losers in the semi-finals ran for the other places in a consolation round.

space	country	athlete
1	Slovenia Slovenia	Dejan Košir
2	Switzerland Switzerland	Simon Schoch
3	France France	Nicolas Huet
4th	France France	Mathieu Bozzetto
5	Austria Austria	Siegfried Grabner
6th	Switzerland Switzerland	Gilles Jaquet
7th	United States United States	Christopher J Klug
8th	Italy Italy	Simone Salvati

Date: January 13, 2003

Height difference: 185 m, gates: 30

Michele Laghi (44th)

Felix Stadler (DNF)

Alexander Maier (DNF)

Mathias Behounek (DNF)

Urs Eiselin (DNF)

Parallel slalom

The men's slalom competitions had the largest field of participants in the world championships with 82 athletes. The 16 time-best snowboarders reached the round of 16. The winners of the direct runs fought against each other for the medals in the finals.

space	country	athlete
1	Austria Austria	Siegfried Grabner
2	France France	Mathieu Bozzetto
3	Switzerland Switzerland	Simon Schoch
4th	France France	Nicolas Huet
5	Slovenia Slovenia	Dejan Košir
6th	Austria Austria	Harald Walder
7th	Switzerland Switzerland	Gilles Jaquet
8th	United States United States	Ryan McDonald

Date: January 14, 2003

Height difference: 78 m, gates: 20

Philipp Schoch (10.)

Michael Dabringer (11.)

Markus Ebner (15.)

Urs Eiselin (17.)

Michael Layer (18.)

Mathias Behounek (23rd)

Felix Stadler (29.)

Christian Veit (34th)

Michele Laghi (47.)

halfpipe

52 athletes started in the halfpipe, twelve of whom qualified for the final round.

space	country	athlete
1	Switzerland Switzerland	Markus Keller
2	Sweden Sweden	Stefan Karlsson
3	United States United States	Steven Fisher

Date: January 17, 2003

Halfpipe (length / width / height): 120 / 18.5 / 5.40 m; Inclination: 17 °

Jan Michaelis (9.)

Xaver Hoffmann (14th)

Christophe Schmidt (16.)

Vincent Lueps (17.)

Renato Spaeni (32nd)

Florian Mausser (41.)

Big Air

41 snowboarders started at Big Air, one of which was disqualified, 25 made it to the second round and 12 made it to the final round.

space	country	athlete
1	Finland Finland	Risto Mattila
2	Sweden Sweden	Simon Ax
3	Finland Finland	Antti Autti

Date: January 18, 2003

Renato Spaeni (8.)

Vincent Lueps (10.)

Dominik Hörner (19.)

Christophe Schmidt (22.)

Marcus Poschenrieder (25.)

Florian Mausser (36th)

Snowboard cross

In this competition, snowboarders compete against each other in groups of four. 70 athletes competed, 32 of which survived the qualifying round. Half of the eighth and quarter-finals were eliminated, so that eight athletes reached the two semi-finals. The better fought for the medals in the Big Final , the losers in the Small Final for the other places.

space	country	athlete
1	France France	Xavier De Le Rue
2	United States United States	Seth Wescott
3	Canada Canada	Drew Neilson
4th	Switzerland Switzerland	Guillaume Nantermod
5	Switzerland Switzerland	Manuel Uhlmann
6th	France France	Guillaume Sachot
7th	Austria Austria	Dieter Krassnig
8th	Austria Austria	Alexander Kroller

Date: January 19, 2003

Difference in altitude: 137 m

Alexander Maier (11th)

Marco Huser (18th)

Sven Unger (19th)

Markus Ebner (21.)

Xavier Jordan (24.)

Lukas Grüner (30.)

Rolf Gisler (32nd)

Michael Layer (34.)

Tobias Fischer (36th)

Women

Parallel giant slalom

57 women competed against each other in the parallel giant slalom. The best 16 of the first run qualified for the round of 16. The winners of the runs reached the semi-finals. The four women snowboarders who won there competed against each other in the final round and fought for the medals.

space	country	athlete
1	Switzerland Switzerland	Ursula Bruhin
2	France France	Julie Pomagalski
3	Germany Germany	Heidi Renoth
4th	Italy Italy	Lidia Trettel
5	France France	Karine Ruby
6th	Austria Austria	Maria Pichler
7th	Finland Finland	Anna Heiramo
8th	United States United States	Stacia Hookom

Date: January 13, 2003

Height difference: 185 m, gates: 30

Daniela Meuli (10.)

Heidi Neururer (15.)

Claudia Riegler (16.)

Corinne Mottu (25.)

Manuela Riegler (28th)

Sandra Farmand (37th)

Milena Meissner ( DNF )

Fränzi Kohly (DNF)

Parallel slalom

63 athletes started the competition, 16 of whom qualified for the round of 16, eight made it to the semi-finals, and four made it to the final for the medals.

space	country	athlete
1	France France	Isabelle Blanc
2	France France	Karine Ruby
3	Sweden Sweden	Sara Fischer
4th	United States United States	Rosey Fletcher
5	Finland Finland	Anna Heiramo
6th	Austria Austria	Claudia Riegler
7th	France France	Florine Valdenaire
8th	Italy Italy	Dagmar Mair under the Egg

Date: January 15, 2003

Difference in altitude: 80 m, gates: 20

Heidi Krings (9th)

Maria Pichler (18th)

Heidi Neururer (19.)

Daniela Meuli (22.)

Sandra Farmand (25.)

Perrine Buhler (32nd)

Ursula Bruhin (DSQ)

Milena Meisser (DSQ)

Heidi Renoth ( DNF )

halfpipe

37 female snowboarders started in the halfpipe, twelve of them reached the final round.

space	country	athlete
1	France France	Doriane Vidal
2	Austria Austria	Nicola Pederzolli
3	Switzerland Switzerland	Fabienne Reuteler
4th	Canada Canada	Dominique Vallee
5	Italy Italy	Romina Masolini
6th	Switzerland Switzerland	Andrea Schuler
7th	Canada Canada	Maëlle Ricker
8th	France France	Cecile Alzina

Date: January 16, 2003

Halfpipe (length / width / height): 120 m / 18.5 m / 5.40 m, slope: 17 °

Mirjam Marbach (11th)

Manuela Lara Pesko (14th)

Verena Höfer (23rd)

Annette Steinbauer (26.)

Vroni Brandt (29.)

Silvia Mittermüller (32nd)

Snowboard cross

33 female snowboarders started in this discipline, 16 of whom qualified for the quarter-finals. Eight reached the semifinals. Those who came in first and second in two runs reached the final run - the Big Final - for the medals, the others ran for the placements in the Small Final .

space	country	athlete
1	France France	Karine Ruby
2	Austria Austria	Ursula fingerless
3	France France	Victoria Wicky
4th	Austria Austria	Manuela Riegler
5	Switzerland Switzerland	Tanja Frieden
6th	Germany Germany	Vroni Brandt
7th	Italy Italy	Jennifer Frino
8th	France France	Déborah Anthonioz

Date: January 19, 2003

Difference in altitude: 137 m

Doris Krings (9th)

Claudia Hausermann (13.)

Olivia Nobs (17.)

Doris Günther (23rd)

Kathrin Kellenberger (26.)

Medal table

space	country
1	France France	4th	3	2	9
2	Switzerland Switzerland	2	1	2	5
3	Austria Austria	1	2	0	3
4th	Finland Finland	1	0	1	2
5	Slovenia Slovenia	1	0	0	1
6th	Sweden Sweden	0	2	1	3
7th	United States United States	0	1	1	2
8th	Germany Germany	0	0	1	1
8th	Canada Canada	0	0	1	1
total		9	9	9	27

Web links

Snowboard World Championships 2003 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)