Queralt Castellet Ibáñez (born 17 June 1989) is a Spanish snowboarder. She won a silver medal in the women's halfpipe at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, making her the first Spanish woman to win an Olympic medal at a Winter Olympics for 30 years. She was a silver medalist at the 2015 World Championships.
Life and career Castellet was born in Sabadell. She states that although she lived in the city, her parents would take her to the mountains every weekend as they enjoyed camping. She began snowboarding at age 6 after her parents had discovered it four years prior. She also participated in gymnastics, but was forced to stop at age 16 after fracturing her wrist while snowboarding. This prompted her to move to the Pyrenees to snowboard more frequently. As a teenager she competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics, and finished tenth in halfpipe at the 2007 World Snowboard Championships. During the 2007-08 Snowboarding World Cup circuit she placed on the podium three times, and overall she placed third in the halfpipe section of the 2007–08 World Cup.
At the 2010 Winter Olympics she scored a 44.3 on her first qualifying run, third highest. However, she suffered a concussion while practicing in the lead-up to the final and was subsequently forced to withdraw.
At the World Cup, she has seven victories, and ten additional podiums in halfpipe, and another podium in big air.
She won silver in the women's halfpipe at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, her fifth Olympic Games.
Personal Castellet currently lives in New Zealand.
Olympic results Season Date Location Discipline Place2006 13 February 2006 Turin, Italy Halfpipe 26th2010 18 February 2010 Vancouver, Canada Halfpipe 12th2014 12 February 2014 Sochi, Russia Halfpipe 11th2018 13 February 2018 Pyeongchang, South Korea Halfpipe 7th2022 9 February 2022 Beijing, China Halfpipe 2nd2026 12 February 2026 Milan, Italy Halfpipe 10th
World championships results Season Date Location Discipline Place2007 20 January 2007 Arosa, Switzerland Halfpipe 10th2009 23 January 2009 Gangwon, South Korea Halfpipe 6th2013 20 January 2013 Stoneham, Canada Halfpipe 5th2015 17 January 2015 Kreischberg, Austria Halfpipe 2nd2017 11 March 2017 Sierra Nevada, Spain Halfpipe 11th17 March 2017 Big air 10th2019 8 February 2019 Park City, United States Halfpipe 4th2021 13 March 2021 Aspen, United States Halfpipe 3rd2023 3 March 2023 Bakuriani, Georgia Halfpipe 23rd
World Cup podiums (19) Season Date Location Discipline Place200827 January 2008 Bardonecchia, ItalyHalfpipe2nd9 March 2008 Stoneham, CanadaHalfpipe3rd16 March 2008 Valmalenco, ItalyHalfpipe2nd2011 26 March 2011 Arosa, Switzerland Halfpipe 1st2012 3 November 2011 Saas-Fee, Switzerland Halfpipe 1st201326 August 2012 Cardrona, New ZealandHalfpipe3rd12 January 2013 Copper Mountain, USAHalfpipe3rd2016 13 February 2016 Quebec, Canada Big air 3rd2018 13 January 2018 Snowmass, USA Halfpipe 1st20 January 2018 Laax, SwitzerlandHalfpipe3rd201919 January 2019 Laax, SwitzerlandHalfpipe2nd15 February 2019 Calgary, CanadaHalfpipe1st202014 December 2019 Copper Mountain, USAHalfpipe1st18 January 2020 Laax, SwitzerlandHalfpipe1st2021 21 March 2021 Aspen, USA Halfpipe 2nd2022 11 December 2021 Copper Mountain, USA Halfpipe 3rd15 January 2022 Laax, SwitzerlandHalfpipe3rd202316 December 2022 Copper Mountain, USAHalfpipe1st2026 28 March 2026 Silvaplana, Switzerland Halfpipe 3rd
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External links
Queralt Castellet Ibanez at Milano Cortina 2026