Winter Games NZ

22-30 August 09

The Games will showcase the best of winter sports over the four international resorts of Coronet Peak, The Remarkable, Snow Farm and Cardrona within the picturesque Queenstown/Lake Wanaka region featuring alpine skiing, cross country skiing, snowboarding and free skiing and adaptive snow sports. The small town of Naseby in Central Otago, home of New Zealand curling, will host teams curling while the coastal city of Dunedin will be the venue for figure skating and ice hockey. Winter triathlon will also feature in the programme, but as a demonstration event.

The programme has been designed to provide a strong representation for all sports, including adaptive snow sports, and to give athletes an opportunity to gain valuable competition experience in an elite environment prior to Vancouver in 2010. Spectators will have free access to all the events, including the opening and closing ceremonies while TV audiences around the globe will be able to enjoy the only winter sports event of this kind in the world.

WINTER GAMES NZ 2009 PROGRAMME

Sat 22 August
Trans Tasman Ice Hockey Test Match - Dunedin
Free Skiing Slopestyle - The Remarkables

Sun 23 August
Classic Cross Country Skiing - Snow Farm
Snowboard Slopestyle - The Remarkables
Trans Tasman Ice Hockey Test Match - Dunedin
Curling - Naseby

Mon 24 August
Sprint Cross Country Skiing - Snow Farm
Curling - Naseby

Tues 25 August
Alpine Skiing – Super G - Coronet Peak
Adaptive Skiing – Super G - Coronet Peak
Adaptive Cross Country - Snow Farm
Freestyle 5km - Women - Snow Farm
Freestyle 10km – Men - Snow Farm
Curling - Naseby

Wed 26 August
Boarder-X - Cardrona
Free Ski Halfpipe - Cardrona
Curling - Naseby

Thurs 27 August
Alpine Skiing – Giant Slalom, men - Coronet Peak
Snowboard Halfpipe - Cardrona
Skier-X - Cardrona
Curling - Naseby

Friday 28 August
Alpine Skiing – Giant Slalom, women - Coronet Peak
Adaptive Skiing – Giant Slalom - Coronet Peak
Curling - Naseby
Figure Skating - Dunedin

Saturday 29 August
Adaptive Skiing – Slalom - Coronet Peak
Snowboard Big Air - Cardrona
Free Ski Big Air - Cardrona
Winter Triathlon - Snow Farm
Curling - Naseby
Figure Skating - Dunedin

Sunday 30 August
Alpine Skiing – Slalom - Coronet Peak
Snowboard Big Air - Coronet Peak
Free Ski Big Air - Coronet Peak
Figure Skating - Dunedin
Closing Ceremony - Coronet Peak

The Fins finish the Junior World Champs in style
Peetu Piiroinen and Enni Rukajarvi win the Big Air, the final event in the 2010 FIS Junior World Championships in New Zealand -31Aug10
Junior Snowboard Halfpipe World Champions Crowned
Cilka Sadar of Slovenia and Taku Hiraoka of Japan were today crowned Junior Snowboard Halfpipe World Champions in an exciting day of competition at Cardrona that also saw New Zealand earn its first medal of the Championships. -25Aug10
Halfpipe qualifiers at the Junior World Champs
Over 80 young snowboarders today took on the massive 22ft halfpipe at Cardrona in a bid to earn a prized spot in tomorrow’s semi finals and an opportunity to ride for the 2010 Junior World Championship title -24Aug10
Burton New Zealand Open 2010 Halfpipe results
The eighth annual Burton New Zealand Open Halfpipe finals took place under blue bird skies today at Cardrona Alpine Resort with Iouri Podladtchikov (SUI) taking first place in the men’s event and Kelly Clark (USA) winning the women’s competition -16Aug10
FIS Junior World Championships prepares
Over 300 of the world’s elite junior snow sports athletes will arrive in Lake Wanaka this week to compete in the inaugural FIS Snowboard & Freestyle Junior World Championships which runs from 19-31 August. -16Aug10

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Cardrona, New Zealand

Okay all round resort

Freeriding: 55% - No trees & some good off-piste
Freestyle: 80% - 2 Terrain parks & 4 pipes
Pistes: 55% - Some okay slopes

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