2021/22 slopestyle World Cup season preview

The 2021/22 FIS Snowboard Park & Pipe slopestyle World Cup season is finally ready to get underway next week, when the world’s best riders will descend on Calgary’s Canada Olympic Park for the first of three slope events slated to take place between now and the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games in China.

With qualifications beginning on December 30th and finals slated for a special New Year’s Day 2022 time slot, Calgary will be the first of six competitions on the slopestyle World Cup calendar for this season, and after Calgary we’ll stay on in North America for another week for the fifth World Cup edition of the Mammoth Mountain Toyota US Grand Prix, taking place from January 6-8.

From Mammoth it’s over to Europe for one final tune-up before Beijing, as the legendary Laax Open will once again highlight this season’s calendar from January 13-15, giving us a worthy springboard into the biggest show of the season in Beijing.

In Beijing the slopestyle competitions will be the first two snowboard medal events of the Games, with women’s qualifications happening on February 5th, women’s finals and men’s qualifications on Feb 6th, and men’s finals on the 7th.

Following Beijing we’ll restart the World Cup calendar with another season highlight, as we head to Bakuriani, Georgia, for the 2023 World Championships test event competition from March 4-6. We’ll then keep things rolling in Europe to finish out the winter, first in the Czech Republic at Spindleruv Mlyn from March 18-19, and then, finally, we’ll close out the 2021/22 FIS Snowboard campaign in Switzerland, with the Silvaplana slopestyle World Cup taking place from March 25-27.