Olympic Snowboarding Big Air Schedule 2026 Women's Qualifying Live Stream

The first snowboarding gold medal has been handed out at the Milan Cortina 2026 Games, after Japan's Kira Kimura took gold in men's big air on Saturday. Now, it's the women's turn.  

Snowboard big air made its Olympic debut at the Sochi 2014 Games. In this discipline, riders do one single trick in the air, unlike snowboard slopestyle, in which the course has a jib (rails) section at the top and three large jumps at the bottom.

In both the qualifier and the final, riders take three runs. The scores from the two best runs are added together for the final score, but the rider must do two different tricks. A trick can have the same degrees of rotation (e.g., an 1800, or five full rotations), but if a rider spins in a different direction (frontside, backside, Cab or switch backside), it counts as a different trick. 

A panel of six judges scores each run. After dropping the highest and lowest scores, the remaining four are averaged. The field of 30 riders will be narrowed down to 12 for the final. 

Here's everything you need to know to tune in to women's snowboard big air qualifiers and a preview of what you can expect to see from these riders.

Women's Big Air Schedule, Live Stream

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Location: Livigno Snow Park

Qualifying: Sunday, Feb. 8 | 1:30 p.m. EST | Peacock (live)

Final: Monday, Feb. 9 | 1:30 p.m. EST | Peacock (live), NBC (live)

Women's Big Air Qualifier Preview

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Back-to-back Olympic big air gold medalist Anna Gasser of Austria is looking for a three-peat in Livigno. If she can do it, the 34-year-old would become the first snowboarder to win three consecutive Olympic gold medals. If she doesn't take gold, Chloe Kim (halfpipe) and Ester Ledecka (parallel giant slalom) also have a chance to earn that accolade. 

Another rider who's likely to end up on the podium is New Zealand's Zoi Sadowski-Synnott. The Beijing 2022 big air silver medalist became the first woman in ski or snowboard to land back-to-back double corks in any slopestyle contest at at X Games Aspen 2022. Now she's got a backside triple cork 1440, which vaulted her to silver last month X Games Aspen 2026. 

A slopestyle and big air rising star, 19-year-old Mia Brookes of Team Great Britain had a first-place finish earlier this season at the big air World Cup in Beijing. 

And don't ever count out Japan's Kokomo Murase, the Beijing 2022 women's big air bronze medalist. In November, she became the first woman to land a backside triple cork 1620 in training at Prime Park Sessions on Austria's Stubai Glacier. She has a chance to become the first Japanese woman to take snowboarding gold at the Olympics.