The men's halfpipe event in snowboarding at the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Park City, United States. The competition took place on 11 February 2002.
The American sweep of the medal podium was the first for that country since the 1956 Winter Olympics, when they won all three medals in the men's singles in figure skating.
Medalists
Results
The halfpipe event for men took place on 11 February 2002, both the qualification rounds and the finals taking place on that day. Fortythirty snowboarders took part in the qualification, the top twelve of whom move on to the finals.
In the qualification round, each snowboarder was given two runs to be in the top six of that run. Regardless of how many points the person received, as long as they placed in the top six, they advanced to the finals. If the person qualified in the first run, they did not need to do a second run in the qualification. The finals proceeded in a similar fashion. The twelve qualifiers had two runs in which to score the highest possible points. The snowboarders were ranked by their highest score, and medals were awarded accordingly. The following is a table detailing the results of the qualification and finals runs of the competing snowboarders.
Rank Name Country Qual. 1 Qual. 2 Qual. Rank Final 1 Final 2 Final Best Ross Powers 33.9 42.1 9 46.1 32.0 46.1 Danny Kass 36.7 42.7 8 42.5 41.5 42.5 Jarret Thomas 19.7 43.5 7 33.2 42.1 42.1 4 Giacomo Kratter 39.8 4 34.9 42.0 42.0 5 Takaharu Nakai 38.3 6 38.3 40.7 40.7 6 Tommy Czeschin 41.8 2 40.6 40.5 40.6 7 Heikki Sorsa 44.2 1 36.8 40.4 40.4 8 Markku Koski 36.9 41.3 10 39.0 25.4 39.0 9 Trevor Andrew 10.8 39.4 11 30.3 38.6 38.6 10 Daniel Franck 39.9 3 29.2 37.4 37.4 11 Magnus Sterner 32.0 39.1 12 36.6 17.9 36.6 12 Jan Michaelis 39.7 5 0.2 0.2 13 Therry Brunner 36.0 37.7 13 14 Kim Christiansen 23.3 37.0 14 15 Marcel Hirtz 23.8 35.9 15 16 Risto Mattila 35.7 34.3 16 17 Marek Sasiadek 18.8 34.0 17 18 Gian Simmen 34.8 33.5 18 19 Daisuke Murakami 19.4 32.7 19 20 Xaver Hoffmann 32.3 32.6 20 21 Sebastien Vassoney 13.5 32.1 21 22 Brett Carpentier 29.7 31.6 22 23 Iker Fernandez 31.0 31.1 23 24 Stefan Karlsson 29.8 30.4 24 25 Tomas Johansson 32.1 30.1 25 26 Daniel Migneault 19.2 28.7 26 27 Mike Michalchuk 34.8 28.6 27 28 Jonathan Collomb-Patton 23.9 28.5 28 29 Kentaro Miyawaki 13.6 27.0 29 30 Tuomo Ojala 28.2 23.3 30 31 Halvor Skramstad Lunn 30.0 21.7 31 32 Daniel Tyrkas 22.5 21.4 32 33 Mathieu Justafre 16.0 12.2 33 Espen Arvesen
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