Para snowboard words · Beginner

Snowboard racing for athletes with a lower-limb or an upper-limb impairment, run by FIS. The events are snowboard cross, banked slalom, dual banked slalom and giant slalom, with team events.

A race down a course of banks, rollers and jumps, run first as timed qualification and then as knockout heats. The course has a vertical drop of 100 to 250 m, is 450 to 1,300 m long and takes 40 to 70 seconds. Gap jumps, corner jumps, spines and negative banks are excluded.

A time trial through gates set on banked turns, with one rider on the course at a time. The course is 300 to 600 m long with an average slope of 15 degrees and an ideal bank radius of 8 to 12 m. Riders make two timed runs and the faster counts.

A time trial through gates over a vertical drop of 200 to 400 m, with 20 to 27 m recommended between turning gates and at least 10 m between nearest poles. Riders make two timed runs and the times are combined; a rider with a DSQ, DNF or DNS in run one cannot start run two.

Two competitors race side by side on two matched banked slalom courses, the left one set with red and the right one with blue poles, 250 to 350 m long. The two courses are 6 to 7 m apart.