Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

The following is about the qualification rules and the quota allocation for the snowboarding events at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Qualification standard

An athlete must have placed in the top 30 at a World Cup event after July 2016 or at the 2017 World Championships in that respective event and also have a maximum amount of FIS points (100 for giant slalom and snowboard cross, 50 for the other three).

A total of 258 quota spots are available to athletes to compete at the games. A maximum of 26 athletes can be entered by a National Olympic Committee, with a maximum of 14 men or 14 women.

Allocation of quotas

At the end of the qualification period of January 22, 2018 quotas will be awarded using the Olympic Quota Allocation List (which includes all results of the World Cups from July 2016 and the results of the 2017 World Championship). The spots will be awarded to each country per athlete appearing on the list starting at number one per event until a maximum for each event is reached. Once an NOC has reached the maximum of 4 quota spots in an event, it will no longer be counted for the allocation of quotas. If a nation goes over the total of 14 per sex or 26 total it is up to that nation to select its team to meet the rules by January 24, 2014. Any vacated spots will be then awarded in that event starting from the first athlete not to be awarded a quota.

Current summary (as of October 26, 2017)

NOC	Men				Women				Total
	Parallel	Halfpipe	Snowboardcross	Slopestyle/Big air	Parallel	Halfpipe	Snowboardcross	Slopestyle/Big air
Andorra			1						1
Argentina			1						1
Australia		3	4			2	1	1	11
Austria	4		4	2	4		1	1	16
Belgium				3					3
Brazil							1		1
Bulgaria	1						1		2
Canada	2	2	3	4		3	4	3	21
China		1			2	4			7
Czech Republic			1	1	1		2	2	7
Finland		2	1	4				1	8
France	1		4			3	4	1	13
Germany	3	2	1		4	1		1	11
Great Britain				3			2	2	7
Italy	4		4	1	2		4		15
Japan	2	3	1		2	3		3	14
Netherlands			1	1	1			2	5
New Zealand		2	1	2				1	6
Norway			1	4				1	6
Poland	1		1		3		1		6
Russia	4	2	2	2	4		3	1	18
Slovenia	3	2		1	2				8
South Korea	3	3		1	2	2		1	12
Spain			2			1			3
Sweden				3					3
Switzerland	3	4	3	4	4	1	2	4	25
Ukraine					1				1
United States	1	4	4	4		4	4	4	25
Total: 28 NOCs	32	30	40	40	32	24	30	30	258

Next eligible NOC per event

The following list shows the next ten (or less) in the allocation lists. If a country rejects a quota spot then additional quotas become available. A country can be eligible for more than one quota spot per event in the reallocation process.

Men

Parallel	Halfpipe	Snowboard Cross	Slopestyle/Big Air
Slovenia  United States  Canada  Germany  United States  China  Switzerland  South Korea  Ukraine  Canada	South Korea  Japan  Finland  Ireland  China  Slovenia  Italy  Slovenia  Czech Republic  Germany	Germany  Canada  Netherlands  Spain  Germany  Russia  Germany  Russia  Argentina  Romania	Austria  Great Britain  Argentina  France  Austria  Germany  Italy  Latvia  Italy  France

Women

Parallel	Halfpipe	Snowboard Cross	Slopestyle
Canada  Canada  France  Canada  Bulgaria  China  Italy  Canada  United States  Australia	Malta  Slovenia  Japan  Slovenia  Canada  New Zealand	Switzerland  Germany  Russia  Germany  Czech Republic  Czech Republic  Andorra	Slovenia  Germany  Norway  Australia  Chile  Russia  New Zealand  Croatia  Spain  New Zealand

External links

• FIS index of rules and allocation lists