The boardercross

Snowboardcross, also known as boardercross, involves riding down a predetermined slope prepared with obstacles such as waves or banked turns. The simultaneous start and daring overtaking maneuvers in the tightest of spaces, including physical contact, ensure excitement and spectacle right up to the finish.

Every heat counts

Four athletes always compete at the same time, with the two fastest athletes in each heat progressing to the next round. This knockout phase is reached by qualifying in advance in individual time trials.

Snowboardcross Team

In the snowboardcross team competition, two athletes of the same gender and from the same nation compete against each other. As soon as the first athlete crosses the finish line, the start gate opens for the second athlete. The cumulative time is measured for the final result.

Halfpipe

The halfpipe is a half snow pipe, open at the top, in which the athletes perform 5-8 tricks, depending on the length, and jump up to 5 meters over the edge of the halfpipe. The height, difficulty, style and number of tricks are judged.

Slopestyle

Here the athletes ride through a course that resembles a skate course and is made up of various jumps and obstacles, also known as slide elements. The athletes are free to choose which obstacles and which tricks they combine. The performance is judged in terms of difficulty, variation and combination of tricks as well as the height of the jumps and the style.

Big Air

The Big Air is a high-altitude event: when jumping over a large ramp (kicker), the athletes jump up to 25 meters wide and 7 meters high. The judges assess various criteria such as the jump, difficulty and style of the trick performed and the landing. Big Air is popular as a city event, where the jump is set up on scaffolding in the middle of a city.

Big Air offers a show and plenty of spectacle, bringing the sport of snowboarding directly to a wide audience. Internationally, the Big Air Competition regularly attracts the greatest attention from fans and the media. Since the founding of Big Air Chur at the latest, this discipline has also arrived in Switzerland outside the freestyle community.

Parallel giant slalom (PGS)

The alpine snowboard athletes compete against each other in parallel on two courses that are as identical as possible. After one run, the sides are swapped to ensure equal conditions. The distance between the gates is 25 meters and the race is timed. In the qualifying round, all athletes complete a timed run. The best 16 progress and then compete in a knockout system.

Parallel Slalom (PSL)

The parallel slalom mode is the same as the giant slalom. The only difference is the distance between the gates (12 meters), which is why shorter snowboards are used.