The women's giant slalom competition of the Nagano 1998 Olympics was held at Mount Yakebitai on 10 February.
It was the first time snowboarding was added as a sport at the Winter Olympic Games. The giant slalom was replaced by the parallel giant slalom event in 2002 in Salt Lake City.
Medalists
Results Rank Bib Name Nationality Run 1 Rank Run 2 Rank Total Difference 2 Karine Ruby 1:09.33 1 1:08.01 6 2:17.34 - 1 Heidi Renoth 1:11.92 5 1:07.25 3 2:19.17 +1.83 11 Brigitte Köck 1:13.01 7 1:06.41 2 2:19.42 +2.08 4 15 Lidia Trettel 1:11.68 3 1:08.03 8 2:19.71 +2.37 5 17 Ursula Fingerlos 1:12.37 6 1:07.99 5 2:20.36 +3.02 6 8 Marion Posch 1:13.32 8 1:08.02 7 2:21.34 +4.00 7 4 Dagi Mair unter der Eggen 1:13.35 9 1:09.07 13 2:22.42 +5.08 8 6 Isabel Zedlacher 1:11.89 4 1:11.03 15 2:22.92 +5.58 9 19 Sandra Farmand 1:14.39 10 1:08.71 12 2:23.10 +5.76 10 20 Marie Birkl 1:15.99 13 1:07.92 4 2:23.91 +6.57 11 23 Cécile Plancherel 1:15.84 12 1:08.23 9 2:24.07 +6.73 12 12 Sondra Van Ert 1:17.89 16 1:08.67 11 2:26.56 +9.22 13 14 Margherita Parini 1:21.42 20 1:06.15 1 2:27.57 +10.23 14 25 Heidi Jaufenthaler 1:18.43 17 1:09.51 14 2:27.94 +10.60 15 22 Shinobu Ueshima 1:16.88 14 1:11.17 16 2:28.05 +10.71 16 18 Charlotte Bernard 1:14.43 11 1:14.30 18 2:28.73 +11.39 17 24 Nathalie Desmares 1:21.43 21 1:08.42 10 2:29.85 +12.51 18 29 Renate Keller 1:19.48 19 1:12.32 17 2:31.80 +14.46 19 27 Małgorzata Rosiak 1:19.41 18 1:19.53 19 2:38.94 +21.60 20 28 Mariya Dimova 1:23.31 23 1:19.53 20 2:42.84 +25.50 21 30 Marousa Pappou 1:33.55 24 1:22.98 21 2:56.53 +39.19 3 Isabelle Blanc 1:11.28 2 DSQ - - - 16 Polona Zupan 1:16.90 15 DNF - - - 13 Steffi von Siebenthal 1:21.93 22 DNS - - - 5 Rosey Fletcher DNF - - - - - 7 Burgl Heckmair DNF - - - - - 9 Betsy Shaw DSQ - - - - - 10 Lisa Kosglow DNF - - - - - 21 Jana Šedová DNF - - - - - 26 Jagna Marczułajtis DNF - - - - - 31 Pamela Bell DNF - - - - - DSQ - Disqualified; DNS - Did not start; DNF - Did not finish
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