By the Numbers: The 2022/23 FIS Snowboard Park & Pipe season
Apr 12, 2023·Snowboard Park & Pipe
BY THE NUMBERS: The 2022/23 FIS Snowboard Park & Pipe season
It’s been just over two week since we wrapped up the 2022/23 FIS Snowboard Park & Pipe season at the future home of the 2025 World Championships in Silvaplana’s Corvatsch 3303 resort, and we thought we’d take a minute to look back at some of the standout facts and figures of the season that was, while it’s still fresh in our minds.
Keep reading for tasty selection of stats from what was a hugely memorable, history-making season of action on the FIS Snowboard Park & Pipe World Cup and at the Bakuriani 2023 World Championships…
THE SEASON
World Cup competitions (men + women): 24
World Cup competitions shortened due to weather (qualification results = final results): 2
World Championships competitions (men + women): 6
STANDOUT INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES
VALENTINO GUSELI (AUS)
Total World Cup points: 625 - 246 halfpipe, 214 big air, 165 slopestyle
World Cup + World Championships starts: 13
Top 10s: 11
Podiums: 5 - 1 big air, 1 slopestyle, 3 halfpipe (two World Cup + Bakuriani 2023 silver)
Crystal globes: 2 - big air, Park & Pipe overall
Finals runs completed: 20
Qualification runs completed: 28
Training runs completed (estimate*): 422
Total time spent in the air at FIS competitions (estimate**): 3,282 seconds/54.7 minutes
*Based off calculation of 12 runs/day training [including WSCs slopestyle before he withdrew due to injury], plus 5 runs/day training qualification & finals days, plus qualification & finals runs
**Based off calculation of 9s/run in halfpipe & slopestyle x 312, 3s/run big air x 158
MITSUKI ONO (JPN)
Total World Cup points: 360 (halfpipe)
World Cup + World Championships starts: 5
World Cup + World Championships podiums: 5 (three wins + 3rd place World Cup, Bakuriani 2023 bronze medal)
Highest score: 90.75
RECORDS & MILESTONES
VALENTINO GUSELI (AUS): Most FIS Snowboard Park & Pipe World Cup starts in one season (13); first rider to podium in all three FIS Snowboard Park & Pipe World Cup events in one season; first rider to finish top-3 on all four FIS Snowboard Park & Pipe World Cup season rankings (big air, halfpipe, slopestyle and overall); most FIS Snowboard Park & Pipe points earned in one season (625 points*); first Australian to win big air crystal globe
MIA BROOKES (GBR): Youngest ever FIS World Champion - 16 years, 1 month, 8 days (Bakuriani 2023 slopestyle); women’s first ever flatspin 1260 in competition (Kreischberg big air World Cup finals); women’s first ever 1440 in competition (Bakuriani 2023 World Championships slopestyle finals)
CHAEUN LEE (KOR): Youngest ever men’s FIS World Champion - 16 years, 10 months, 22 days - Bakuriani 2023 halfpipe
CAI XUETONG (CHN): 30th career World Cup podium - Mammoth Mountain U.S. Grand Prix (2nd place); most total podiums in FIS Snowboard Park & Pipe history
MITSUKI ONO (JPN): First women to win 3 straight halfpipe World Cup competitions in 22 years; first Japanese woman to win halfpipe crystal globe since 2004/2005
TAIGA HASEGAWA, RYOMA KIMATA, KIRA KIMURA (JPN): First Japanese sweep of a World Cup big air podium (Kreischberg)
JULIA MARINO (USA): Second women in World Cup history to win three-straight slopestyle competitions
QUERALT CASTELLET (ESP): 60th career World Cup start - 21 Jan 2023 Laax Open (4th place)
SEPPE SMITHS (BEL): 60th career World Cup start - 4 Feb 2023 Mammoth Man U.S. Grand Prix (14th place)
MARI FUKADA (JPN): Youngest ever big air World Cup winner - 15 years, 11 months, 2 days - Copper Mountain VISA Big Air (USA)
ANNA GASSER (AUT): Oldest ever big air World Cup winner - 31 years, 4 months, 29 days - Kreischberg big air (AUT); 25th career World Cup podium - Silvaplana slopestyle (3rd place)
*Adjusted for all previous FIS Snowboard point-scoring systems
FIRST WORLD CUP WINS: Jasmine Baird (CAN) - Edmonton Style Experience Big Air (CAN), Valentino Guseli (AUS) - Edmonton Style Experience Big Air (CAN); Mari Fukada (JPN) - Copper Mountain VISA Big Air (USA); Taiga Hasegawa (JPN) - Kreischberg big air (AUT)
FIRST WORLD CUP PODIUMS: Nick Puenter (SUI) - 3rd place, Big Air Chur (SUI); Evy Poppe (BEL) - 2nd place, Edmonton Style Experience Big Air (CAN); Kaishu Hirano (JPN) - Copper Mountain U.S. Grand Prix halfpipe (USA); Ian Matteoli (ITA) - 3rd place, Copper Mountain VISA Big Air (USA); Mari Fukada (JPN) - 1st place, Copper Mountain VISA Big Air (USA); Taiga Hasegawa (JPN) - 1st place, Kreischberg big air (AUT); Kira Kimura (JPN) - 3rd place, Kreischberg big air (AUT); Wu Shaotong (CHN) - 2nd place, Laax Open halfpipe (SUI); Mia Brookes (GBR) - 2nd place, Laax Open slopestyle (SUI); Chase Blackwell (USA) - 3rd place, Mammoth Mountain U.S. Grand Prix halfpipe (USA); Shuichiro Shigeno (JPN) - 3rd place, Calgary Snow Rodeo halfpipe (CAN); Berenice Wicki (SUI) - 3rd place, Calgary Snow Rodeo halfpipe (CAN); Cameron Spalding (CAN) - 3rd place, Calgary Snow Rodeo slopestyle (CAN)
