Snowboarding at the 2003 Asian Winter Games

Snowboarding at the 2003 Asian Winter Games
Venue	Ajigasawa Ski Area
Dates	2 February 2003 (2003-02-02) – 4 February 2003 (2003-02-04)
Competitors	26 from 5 nations

Snowboarding was featured as part of the 2003 Asian Winter Games at the Ajigasawa Ski Area in Aomori, Japan. Events were held from 2 February to 4 February 2003. Women's competitions were conducted demonstration sport. The host nation Japan dominated the even by winning all three gold medals.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's halfpipe	Daisuke Murakami  Japan	Takaharu Nakai  Japan	Han Jin-bae  South Korea
Men's slalom	Kohei Kawaguchi  Japan	Ji Myung-kon  South Korea	Kentaro Tsuruoka  Japan
Men's giant slalom	Kohei Kawaguchi  Japan	Teruumi Fujimoto  Japan	Kentaro Tsuruoka  Japan

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	3	2	2	7
2	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	1	2
Totals (2 nations)		3	3	3	9

Demonstration events

Women's halfpipe

2 February

Election Rank Athlete Score 1  Soko Yamaoka (JPN) 38.5 2  Chiyoko Iwabuchi (JPN) 36.5 3  Maho Yoshimi (JPN) 32.7

Final Rank Athlete 1st run 2nd run Best  Soko Yamaoka (JPN) 40.2 35.7 40.2  Maho Yoshimi (JPN) 32.9 32.6 32.9  Chiyoko Iwabuchi (JPN) 29.9 27.9 29.9

Women's slalom

4 February

Rank	Athlete	1st run	2nd run	Total
	Ran Iida (JPN)	54.95	54.70	1:49.65
	Eri Yanetani (JPN)	55.17	55.09	1:50.26
	Tomoka Takeuchi (JPN)	57.95	58.46	1:56.41

Women's giant slalom

3 February

Rank	Athlete	1st run	2nd run	Total
	Ran Iida (JPN)	1:14.17	1:16.30	2:30.47
	Tomoka Takeuchi (JPN)	1:12.76	1:18.21	2:30.97
	Eri Yanetani (JPN)	1:14.89	1:16.50	2:31.39

Participating nations

A total of 26 athletes from 5 nations competed in snowboarding at the 2003 Asian Winter Games:

References

• 2003 Asian Winter Games Calendar