Marko Grilc wins the Evolution Slopestyle

Sun 10 January 10

In a tight battle between Marko Grilc (SLO) in today’s 5Star Slopestyle finals, Peetu kept his cool and collected his fifth result of the season at Davos

With an outstanding performance in both formats of the O’Neill Evolution, Peetu Piiroinen (FIN) is back at the top of the Swatch TTR World Ranking list. In a tight battle between Marko Grilc (SLO) in today’s 5Star Slopestyle finals, Peetu kept his cool and collected his fifth result of the season at Davos. Grilc, however, was the best rider of the day and took home the 5Star title and 850 Swatch TTR Ranking points with a run consisting of a double backflip, double cork 1080, 50/50 - backflip off. Despite his win, Grilc was pushed into World No. 2.

After his win of the Swatch TTR World Champion title last season, Peetu is aiming for his second consecutive title in 2009/10 and surely has the will to get there. "It is possible. Right now I have five results. I am pretty confident for the 6Stars that are coming. It would be really nice and I will for sure go for it and do my best and hope it is enough", says Piiroinen after the finals. He could become the first snowboarder ever to win two consecutive Swatch TTR titles. However, the season has only just started to gather momentum and up ahead are still many 6 and 5Star events until the Burton US Open where the Tour Champion will be crowned.

Although the sun did not find its way through the clouds today, the 5Star slopestyle finals saw some of the Swatch TTR Top 10 ripping and going for a better ranking score. Among those Seppe Smits who just missed the podium in fourth place and now sits in World No. 5, also Eric Willett who moved up to World No. 4, and young Norwegian kid Stale Sandbech who jumped into World No. 3 on the Swatch TTR Tour.

Final Results

1	Grilc	Marko	SLO	93.5
2	Paumola	Ville	FIN	90
3	Piiroinen	Peetu	FIN	89.67
4	Smits	Seppe	BEL	89.5
5	Tiller	Sondre	NOR	85.5
6	Willett	Eric	USA	80.33
7	Elhardt	Elias	GER	77.83
8	Sandbech	Stale	NOR	76.33
9	Bergrem	Torgeir	NOR	76
10	Ryan	Sean	USA	74
11	Schaer	Mathieu	SUI	68.5
12	Backstrom	Kevin	SWE	62.83
13	McMorris	Mark	CAN	61.67
14	Braaten	Gjermund	NOR	44.5
15	Lipsanen	Janne	FIN	30
16	Holvik	Tore	NOR	29.67

 

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