Ormerod impresses in Dew Tour
At the Dew Tour in Breckenridge, there were superb performances from James Woods and Katie Ormerod, with both athletes’ just missing out on podium positions.
On Friday, Katie Ormerod landed her first ever cab 900 in competition, but just missed out on the podium in the women’s Snowboard Slopestyle, finishing in 5th place. Katie’s teammate Jamie Nicholls made it through to the last chance qualifying round in the men’s Snowboard Slopestyle, but couldn’t make the run to send him to finals. Aimee Fuller finished 8th overall, just missing out on the Snowboard Slopestyle finals.
Yesterday, in the Ski Slopestyle finals, despite being at the top of his game, James Woodsy Woods also had to settle for 5th place. After qualifying for the final in first position, Woodsy put in two high quality, clean runs, but the standard was so high, he got pushed down into 5th place, with Gus Kenworthy taking the top spot.
British Snowboard Cross
At the Snowboard Cross World Cup in Montafon, Austria, Zoe Gillings-Brier put in a strong performance in her first World Cup of the season, finishing in 15th position after making it through to the quarterfinals. Stephanie Gehrig unfortunately didn’t qualify for the finals.
British Alpine Team
In Are, Sweden, Alex Tilley wasn’t able to progress through to the second run in Saturday’s GS or Sunday’s Slalom World Cup, but over in Kvitfjell, Cara Brown, put in four strong performances over the weekend. She finished 45th and 31st in the two Super G races, and also took 31st in Giant Slalom and then 33rd in the Alpine Combined.
GB Park & Pipe
In Copper Mountain, the US Rev Tour continued into the weekend with the Ski Halfpipe. Molly Summerhayes put in two fantastic performances making it to the finals in both days of competition and finishing in 6th on Thursday and 3rd on Friday. And in her return to competition following injury, Rowan Cheshire had a fantastic result on Friday finishing 4th position improving on her 8th place finish on Thursday Madi Rowlands also impressed with a 16th on Thursday, and 15th on Friday.
In the men’s competition, James Machon took an excellent 4th place on Thursday’s Halfpipe, with Murray Buchan taking 10th and Pete Speight in 23rd in his first competition since returning from a knee injury. Friday saw Buchan finish 29th and Speight 25th.
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