# 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, making her the first Spanish woman to win an Olympic medal at a Winter Olympics for 30 years. She was a silver medalist at the 2015 World Championships.

## Life and career

Castellet was born in Sabadell. She states that although she lived in the city, her parents would take her to the mountains every weekend as they enjoyed camping. She began snowboarding at age 6 after her parents had discovered it four years prior. She also participated in gymnastics, but was forced to stop at age 16 after fracturing her wrist while snowboarding. This prompted her to move to the Pyrenees to snowboard more frequently. 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 seven victories, and ten additional podiums in halfpipe, and another podium in big air.
She won silver in the women's halfpipe at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, her fifth Olympic Games.

## Personal

Castellet currently lives in New Zealand.

## Olympic results

| Season | Date | Location | Discipline | Place |
| 2006 | 13 February 2006 | Turin, Italy | Halfpipe | 26th |
| 2010 | 18 February 2010 | Vancouver, Canada | Halfpipe | 12th |
| 2014 | 12 February 2014 | Sochi, Russia | Halfpipe | 11th |
| 2018 | 13 February 2018 | Pyeongchang, South Korea | Halfpipe | 7th |
| 2022 | 9 February 2022 | Beijing, China | Halfpipe | 2nd |

## World championships results

| Season | Date | Location | Discipline | Place |
| 2007 | 20 January 2007 | Arosa, Switzerland | Halfpipe | 10th |
| 2009 | 23 January 2009 | Gangwon, South Korea | Halfpipe | 6th |
| 2013 | 20 January 2013 | Stoneham, Canada | Halfpipe | 5th |
| 2015 | 17 January 2015 | Kreischberg, Austria | Halfpipe | 2nd |
| 2017 | 11 March 2017 | Sierra Nevada, Spain | Halfpipe | 11th |
| 2017 | 17 March 2017 | Sierra Nevada, Spain | Big air | 10th |
| 2019 | 8 February 2019 | Park City, United States | Halfpipe | 4th |
| 2021 | 13 March 2021 | Aspen, United States | Halfpipe | 3rd |

## World Cup podiums

| Season | Date | Location | Discipline | Place |
| 2008 | 27 January 2008 | Bardonecchia, Italy | Halfpipe | 2nd |
| 2008 | 9 March 2008 | Stoneham, Canada | Halfpipe | 3rd |
| 2008 | 16 March 2008 | Valmalenco, Italy | Halfpipe | 2nd |
| 2011 | 26 March 2011 | Arosa, Switzerland | Halfpipe | 1st |
| 2012 | 3 November 2011 | Saas-Fee, Switzerland | Halfpipe | 1st |
| 2013 | 26 August 2012 | Cardrona, New Zealand | Halfpipe | 3rd |
| 2013 | 12 January 2013 | Copper Mountain, USA | Halfpipe | 3rd |
| 2016 | 13 February 2016 | Quebec, Canada | Big air | 3rd |
| 2018 | 13 January 2018 | Snowmass, USA | Halfpipe | 1st |
| 2018 | 20 January 2018 | Laax, Switzerland | Halfpipe | 3rd |
| 2019 | 19 January 2019 | Laax, Switzerland | Halfpipe | 2nd |
| 2019 | 15 February 2019 | Calgary, Canada | Halfpipe | 1st |
| 2020 | 14 December 2019 | Copper Mountain, USA | Halfpipe | 1st |
| 2020 | 18 January 2020 | Laax, Switzerland | Halfpipe | 1st |
| 2021 | 21 March 2021 | Aspen, USA | Halfpipe | 2nd |
| 2022 | 11 December 2021 | Copper Mountain, USA | Halfpipe | 3rd |
| 2022 | 15 January 2022 | Laax, Switzerland | Halfpipe | 3rd |
| 2023 | 16 December 2022 | Copper Mountain, USA | Halfpipe | 1st |