What is the longest rail slide on skis?
424 feet
X Games Freeski gold medalist Tom Wallisch set out to break the world record for the world’s longest rail grind on skis. With the previous record set at 241 feet, Wallisch set out to slide 424 feet and achieved a new world record in the process.
What is the longest snowboard in the world?
The largest snowboard measured 10 m (32 ft 9.7 in) long and 2.15 m (7 ft) wide and was manufactured by Arnold Schindler and his team from Schindler and Scheibling AG in Flumserberg, Switzerland, on the 18 March 2007.
What is the highest jump on a snowboard?
The Highest air world record is currently held by Terje Håkonsen, who dominated freestyle snowboarding in the 1990s. He set the world record during the qualifying for The Artic Challenge in Oslo 2007, jumping a whopping 9.8m off the quarter pipe with a backside 360.
What is the world’s longest rail grind?
204 ft
The longest 50-50 rail grind on a skateboard is 62.1792 m (204 ft) and was achieved by Jagger Eaton on the set of Nickelodeon’s Jagger Eaton’s Mega Life in Los Angeles, California, USA, on 17 October 2016.
What are the longest skis?
The longest skis are 555 m (1,820 ft 10.35 in) long and were worn by 170 skiers in an event organized by Aker Solutions Arendal (Norway) in Arendal, Norway, on 20 February 2011. The skies moved 13.5 metres (44 ft 3 in).
What is the most spins on a snowboard?
In 2017 Japanese snowboarder Yuki Kadono landed this notoriously tricky stunt as part of a casual session in a terrain park. It combines a quadruple cork (going upside down four times, in layman’s terms) with a 1980-degree sideways rotation – that’s five and a half 360-degree spins. Feeling dizzy?
Who won the first gold medal in snowboarding?
Snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis wins first U.S. gold medal at Beijing Winter Olympics. IE 11 is not supported.
Has anyone done an 1800 in snowboarding?
In April 2015, British snowboarder and Winter Olympic medallist Billy Morgan landed the world’s first quadruple cork 1800. At the 2022 Winter Olympics, Ayumu Hirano landed a frontside triple cork, becoming the first boarder to do so at the Olympics.
Who is the oldest Olympic medalist?
Oscar Gomer Swahn
Oscar Gomer Swahn (20 October 1847 – 1 May 1927) was a Swedish shooter who competed at three Olympic games and won six medals, including three gold. Swahn holds records as the oldest Olympian at the time of competition, the oldest person to win gold, and the oldest person to win an Olympic medal.
What country has the most medals in snowboarding?
The United States
The United States claimed four total snowboarding medals (three golds and one silver), which was tied with Austria for the second-most. The U.S. and Austria were tied for the most golds, but were edged out by Canada for the most medals with six (one gold, one silver and four bronze).
Has anyone done a 1980 on a snowboard?
Meanwhile at the Hammer Banger Session, Yuki Kadono goes five and a half times around. This very well may be the first ever quad cork 1980 in snowboarding’s history.