Sven Thorgren wins the 6 Star Air & Style Beijing!
Sage Kotsenburg and Kim Rune Hansen finish 2nd and 3rd at the 6Star World Snowboard Tour Air & Style Beijing in the Olympic Bird ´s nest Stadium Sven Thorgren is the winner of today's Air & Style Beijing 2013.
The Swedish rider prevailed in a world-class superfinal of the best four riders with a Backside 1440 Mute over Sage Kotsenburg, Kim Rune Hansen and Torgeir Bergrem. From Round 1 on he showed a very high level of performance on the world 's biggest artificial snowboard ramp. His victory at the 6Star World Snowboard Tour contest in front of a total of 13,000 thousand spectators pays off with 1,000 points for the World Snowboard Tour ranking and the major share of the 100,000 US-$ prize money.
Sven Thorgren said: „Today 's victory is the biggest success of my career. It is a dream come true. Winning with a trick that I never before had landed safely, makes this win svery special form me.”
Chinese rider He Wei, the first Chinese ever to compete in an Air & Style contest, finished 15th after a good performance. In Round 2 he lost against the winner Sven Thorgren.
The World Snowboard Tour moves on to the North American continent for the 5 Star US Snowboarding Grandprix in Copper for a Slopestyle and Halfpipe competition from Dec 16th-22nd and from January 6th-12th to North Star at Tahoe. From the 8th of January Slopestyle riders are welcome back in China for the 5 Star RedBull Nanshan Open, before heading to Europe for the 6 Star Burton European Open in Laax, Switzerland.
For more information check: www.worldsnowboardtour.com
|
Rank |
Name |
Country |
Trick |
Pts. |
|
1 |
Sven Thorgren |
SWE |
Backside 1440 Mute |
96,00 |
|
2 |
Sage Kotsenburg |
USA |
Cab Double Cork 1260 Japan |
92,87 |
|
3 |
Kim Rune Hansen |
NOR |
Switch Backside 1260 |
92,00 |
|
4 |
Torgeir Bergrem |
NOR |
Backside 1260 Mute |
83,00 |
Official Result Air & Style Beijing 2013:
|
Rang |
Name |
Land |
Punkte |
|
1. |
Sven Thorgren |
SWE |
96,00 |
|
2. |
Sage Kotsenburg |
USA |
92,87 |
|
3. |
Kim Rune Hansen |
NOR |
92,00 |
|
4. |
Torgeir Bergrem |
NOR |
83,00 |
|
5. |
Mathias Weissenbacher |
AUT |
88,67 |
|
6. |
Eric Willett |
USA |
85,67 |
|
7. |
Halldor Helgason |
ISL |
81,00 |
|
8. |
Tor Lundstrom |
SWE |
22,00 |
|
9. |
Niklas Mattson |
SWE |
91,67 |
|
10. |
Peetu Piiroinen |
FIN |
91,67 |
|
11. |
Yuki Kadono |
JPN |
91,00 |
|
12. |
Gjermund Braaten |
NOR |
84,00 |
|
13. |
Emil Ulsletten |
NOR |
81,00 |
|
14. |
Carlos Gerber |
SUI |
75,33 |
|
15. |
He Wei |
CHN |
71,33 |
|
16. |
Nikolas Baden |
USA |
59,67 |
|
17. |
Tim-Kevin Ravnjak |
SLO |
82,67 |
|
18. |
Toshiki Yamane |
JPN |
77,00 |
|
19. |
Ethan Morgan |
GER |
71,33 |
|
20. |
Jonas Bo¨siger |
SUI |
58,33 |
|
21. |
Ulrik Badertscher |
NOR |
48,00 |
|
22. |
Michael Roy |
CAN |
12,33 |
|
23. |
Markku Koski |
FIN |
10,00 |
|
24. |
Stale Sandbech |
NOR |
DNS |
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