The First Olympic Halfpipe Medal Runs

Just as a reminder to see how far snowboarding has come in the last 16 years, check out this edit of the 1998 Nagano Olympic medal runs by Ross Powers, Daniel Franck, and Gian Simmen with the world’s first halfpipe gold medal. Wow. Follow the jump for the full final results1. Gian SIMMEN (SUI) 85,2 pts GOLD
2. Daniel FRANCK (NOR) 82,4 pts SILVER
3. Ross POWERS (USA) 82,1 pts BRONZE
4. Fabien ROHRER (SUI) 78,7 pts
5. Guillaume CHASTAGNOL (FRA) 78,3 pts
6. Jacob SODERQVIST (SWE) 77,8 pts
7. Sebastian KUHLBERG (FIN) 76,6 pts
8. Michael MICHALCHUK (CAN) 76,0 pts
9. Brett CARPENTIER (CAN) 75,6 pts
10. Jonathan COLLOMB-PATTON (FRA) 75,5 pts
11. Jussi Ilmari OKSANEN (FIN) 73,6 pts
12. Jean Baptiste CHARLET (FRA) 73,4 pts
13. Markus Mikael HURME (FIN) 73,0 pts
14. Lauri Aleksi LITOVAARA (FIN) 71,9 pts
15. Klas VANGEN (NOR) 70,9 pts
16. Todd RICHARDS (USA) 69,6 pts