Arielle Gold (USA) and Tim-Kevin Ravnjak (SLO) have secured Gold in the halfpipe at the 16th FIS Snowboard FIS Junior World Championships held in Sierra Nevada, Spain.
Andorra saw some exceptional snowboard action as the 4Star Grandvalira Total Fight presented by Burton and Coca Cola brought a relaxed and progressive springtime slopestyle contest to the Pyrenees. The 8th edition of the Total Fight gathered a solid crew of international and local riders to enjoy the perfect springtime slopestyle setup to fight it out for the $25,000 USD prize purse and a maximum of 500 Swatch TTR World Ranking points. The finals took place on Saturday, March 26th,...
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Kelly Clark & Kazu Kokubo Win 29th Annual Burton US Open Halfpipe
Jamie Anderson & Peetu Piiroinen officially crowned as the 2010/11 Swatch TTR Tour Champions
Stratton Mountain, VT (March 12, 2011) Thousands of people rolled in to Stratton, Vermont for the 29th annual Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships, presented by MINI. Three major titles were awarded today at the US Open, making it one of the biggest days in competitive snowboarding.
Katarzyna Rusin and Alexey Sobolev victorious in season’s last slopestyle / Clemens Schattschneider clinches first Big Air-Slopestyle World Cup title / Historic triumph for Russia
The slopestyle podium in Bardonecchia:
Women Men
1. Katarzyna Rusin (POL) 1. Alexey Sobolev (RUS)
Holly Crawford and Nathan Johnstone claim victory at halfpipe contest in Bardonecchia / World Champion’s wins makes World Cup title race exciting Read more
Scandinavia remained the place to be for the sixth tour stop of the Nike 6.0 Stairset Battle Tour on January 15th, 2011 at Talma resort in Finland. Despite some of the most rugged conditions of the tour and record low temperatures of – 23°C, a total of 45 competitors came to battle it out in front of more than 600 spectators.
Despite sunshine and clear blue Scandinavian skies, parts of the park – including the Stair Set – remained in the shadows all day, which meant...
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Sebastien Toutant impressively claims victory at Stockholm big air World Cup - Sebastien Toutant has won the second big air of the 2011 LG Snowboard FIS World Cup. In a high-class snowboard final of the fifth Stadium Winter Jam in Stockholm, Sweden, the Canadian rider earned 51.3 points thus edging off Finland’s Petja Piiroinen (48.9) and Patrick Burgener from Switzerland (47.8) to the second and third rank respectively. It was the first World Cup win for the 18-years-old talent from Montreal...
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The Horsefeathers Pleasure Jam 2010 finals passed off with a remarkably high riding level. After a terrific qualification at the Horsefeathers Superpark Dachstein on Saturday, the gathered snowboarder-scene witnessed a fulminate spectacle on a perfect sunny Sunday. The final of the TTR4 star contest made the audience gasp until the last rider went for the huge kickers. For the second time in a row, the “Jamps” of the 8th Horsefeathers Pleasure Jam...
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Marco Grilc has clinched the 2011 LG Snowboard FIS World Cup season’s first big air contest. The Slovenian rider residing in Ljubljana secured his career’s first World Cup triumph (54.9) by nailing a backside 1080 double cork in the last run of final of the top-12 earning the comp maximum of 29.3 points. At the highlight of the three days lasting Relentless Freeze Festival at Battersea Power Station, London, Great Britain, Norway’s rising star Staale Sandbech finished second (53.9). Seppe...
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Long waited Spring battle was here. I had big fight with my boss to let me go off for 2 days before Easter and it worth it. Thursday morning we got up early at 4am to be first visitors in Absolut park (Flachauwinkl – Kleinarl) – www.absolutpark.com. It was 9 o’clock when we picked up our accreditations and sunny weekend started. We wanted to have couple of runs before competition....
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While World Rookie Champion Roope Tonteri got seven place at the Oakley Arctic Challenge 2010, the World Rookie Tour landed in Czech Republic, for the Protest East Rookie Fest in Splinderuv Mlyn, Martin Cernik’s home ski resort. It was the last international stop of the toour before the 4Star Protest World Rookie Finals 2010 to be held in Ischgl, Austria, in April.
Oslo, Norway – March 7th 2010: One of the most impressive snowboard athletes in the world today, Peetu Piiroinen (FIN), reconfirmed his reputation with a first place finish at the coveted 6Star Oakley Arctic Challenge. Thousand of fans at Tryvann Vinterpark in Oslo, Norway witnessed a piece of snowboarding history as 21-year old Peetu Piiroinen took first place in today’s slopestyle competition, and with an additional 1000 TTR ranking points on his account, he...
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Livigno, Italy – 26th February 2010: Following the Slopestyle format on Thursday the 5Star Burn River Jump took on its second format, the Straight Jump, this evening in the centre of Livigno, Italy. In front of a spectacular city backdrop and thousands of screaming spectators, the riders faced a nail-biting knock out final. Yale Cousino (USA) bagged his third consecutive title at this event, while Gjermund Braaten (NOR) who was closely in 2nd place made the most impressive...
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Livigno, Italy – 25th February 2010: American Eric Willett took home the Brux Slopestyle title and 850 Swatch TTR ranking points this Thursday at the 5Star Burn River Jump in Livigno, Italy. With high level snowboarding seen from the 67 riders gathered from all over the world, it was the talented rookies Gjermund Braaten (NOR) who grabbed second place and Roope Tonteri (FIN) who took third. The biggest climber in the TTR Ranking, with a 5th place is Janne...
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Scuol, Switzerland – 19th February 2010: TTR Pro Snowboard, the owner and operator of the TTR World Snowboard Tour would like to congratulate the 2010 Vancouver Olympics halfpipe winners, Shaun White (USA) for his second consecutive gold medal, Peetu Piiroinen (FIN) for taking home the silver medal, and Scotty Lago (USA) for his bronze. White won the TTR World Snowboard Tour 2006/2007, after claiming his first Olympic gold in Torino 2006, showing himself as one of...
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