Snowboarding at the 2003 Asian Winter Games
Venue	Ajigasawa Ski Area
Dates	2–4 February 2003
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 was the only nation and dominated the competition by winning all three gold medals.

Schedule

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 entries)		3	3	3	9

Demonstration events

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women's halfpipe	Soko Yamaoka  Japan	Maho Yoshimi  Japan	Chiyoko Iwabuchi  Japan
Women's slalom	Ran Iida  Japan	Eri Yanetani  Japan	Tomoka Takeuchi  Japan
Women's giant slalom	Ran Iida  Japan	Tomoka Takeuchi  Japan	Eri Yanetani  Japan

Women's halfpipe

2 February

Rank	Athlete	Election	Final
	Soko Yamaoka (JPN)	38.5	40.2
	Maho Yoshimi (JPN)	32.7	32.9
	Chiyoko Iwabuchi (JPN)	36.5	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