Queralt Castellet

Queralt Castellet Ibáñez (born 17 June 1989) is a Spanish snowboarder. She won a silver medal in the women's halfpipe at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. No Spanish woman had won an Olympic medal at a Winter Olympics for 30 years.[1] She was a silver medalist at the 2015 World Championships.

Queralt Castellet
Queralt Castellet (2022)
Personal information
NationalitySpanish
Born (1989-06-17) 17 June 1989
Sabadell, Spain
Height1.56 m (5 ft 1 in)
Weight52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
CountrySpain
SportSnowboarding
Event(s)Halfpipe

Life

Castellet was born in Sabadell in 1989. As a teenager she competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics, and finished tenth in halfpipe at the 2007 World Snowboard Championships. During the 2007-08 Snowboarding World Cup circuit she placed on the podium three times, and overall she placed third in the halfpipe section of the 2007–08 World Cup.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics she scored a 44.3 on her first qualifying run, third highest. However, she suffered a concussion while practicing in the lead-up to the final and was subsequently forced to withdraw.

At the World Cup, she has six victories, and ten additional podiums in halfpipe, and another podium in big air.

She won Spain's first silver Olympic medal at a Winter Olympics for 30 years in the women's halfpipe at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Chloe Kim took the gold medal and Sena Tomita was third. This was Castellet's fifth Olympics.[1]

Personal

Castellet currently lives in New Zealand.

Olympic results

Season Date Location Discipline Place
200613 February 2006 Turin, ItalyHalfpipe26th
201018 February 2010 Vancouver, CanadaHalfpipe12th
201412 February 2014 Sochi, RussiaHalfpipe11th
201813 February 2018 Pyeongchang, South KoreaHalfpipe7th
20229 February 2022 Beijing, ChinaHalfpipe2nd

World championships results

Season Date Location Discipline Place
200720 January 2007 Arosa, SwitzerlandHalfpipe10th
200923 January 2009 Gangwon, South KoreaHalfpipe6th
201320 January 2013 Stoneham, CanadaHalfpipe5th
201517 January 2015 Kreischberg, AustriaHalfpipe2nd
201711 March 2017 Sierra Nevada, SpainHalfpipe11th
17 March 2017Big air10th
20198 February 2019 Park City, United StatesHalfpipe4th
202113 March 2021 Aspen, United StatesHalfpipe3rd

World Cup podiums

Season Date Location Discipline Place
2008 27 January 2008 Bardonecchia, Italy Halfpipe 2nd
9 March 2008 Stoneham, Canada Halfpipe 3rd
16 March 2008 Valmalenco, Italy Halfpipe 2nd
201126 March 2011 Arosa, SwitzerlandHalfpipe1st
20123 November 2011 Saas-Fee, SwitzerlandHalfpipe1st
2013 26 August 2012 Cardrona, New Zealand Halfpipe 3rd
12 January 2013 Copper Mountain, USA Halfpipe 3rd
201613 February 2016 Quebec, CanadaBig air3rd
201813 January 2018 Snowmass, USAHalfpipe1st
20 January 2018 Laax, Switzerland Halfpipe 3rd
2019 19 January 2019 Laax, Switzerland Halfpipe 2nd
15 February 2019 Calgary, Canada Halfpipe 1st
2020 14 December 2019 Copper Mountain, USA Halfpipe 1st
18 January 2020 Laax, Switzerland Halfpipe 1st
202121 March 2021 Aspen, USAHalfpipe2nd
202211 December 2021 Copper Mountain, USAHalfpipe3rd
15 January 2022 Laax, Switzerland Halfpipe 3rd

References

  1. "Queralt Castellet wins halfpipe silver, Spain's first medal in 30 years". Just Women's Sports. 10 February 2022. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
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