Switzerland
The world champions in ski and snowboard categories are, respectively, Loïc Collomb-Patton (FRA) and Emilien Badoux (SUI), while the champions are skiing Nadine Wallner (AUT) and snowboarding Shannan Yates (USA) . These are the results of the final Xtreme Verbier Freeride World Tour 2014 held today in Switzerland.
Saturday 29 March 2014 7 minutes reading time
Exciting race and great show. In the presence of more than six thousand spectators and more than four thousand live web athletes faced with the formidable strength and determination 500m north face of the Bec des Rosses, whitewashed this week by a new layer of powder is 50 cm.
These are the results of this stage of the Xtreme Verbier Skiing Men: Reine Barkered (SWE) 93.25 puntiSnowboard male Ralph Backstrom (USA) 77.75 puntiSci women: Pia Nic Gundersen (NOR) 83.50 puntiSnowboard women: Elodie Mouthon (FRA) 72.25 points
Click here to see the complete ranking of the stage to Verbier Xtreme.
The links instead the overall rankings of the different categories of FWT2014:
Skiing Men's | Women's Ski | Snowboard Men | Women Snowboard
Click here to see the video of the descent of all athletes
Click here to see the replay of the race
The nerves were sky high and the tension as they were many athletes who had the opportunity to win the world title playing a good game, and this has led to further raise the level of competition and spectacle. As is well known the north face of the Bec des Rosses is very challenging, with a vertical drop of more than 60 ° at the top and then decline at the end on the 45th, and it is difficult to compete in a race of this level after a single visual reconnaissance. The snow was actually much but then the altitude wind made things a little 'more difficult.
For the first women are left this morning, before the later skiers and snowboarders, with the starting gate at the "Petit Bec", the little Bee. In snowboarding veteran American Shannan Yates and local Estelle Balet were the favorites, but both have fallen. The stage victory went to the then champion 2013 Elodie Mouthon, with a powerful lineup and good aerial tricks. Nevertheless, the American Yates had enough points to secure the title.
In skiing the austrica Nadine Wallner took second place in the race and make sure that once again the title of world champion in 2014. The Norwegian Pia Nic Gundersen took off still a good satisfaction beating the opponent and finishing first in the race with a fast and strong line and a spectacular jump of at least 12 meters.
Men have rather played the race starting gate on top of Bec. In snowboarding former world champion Ralph Backstrom has played an excellent match, confirming its huge capacity, ranking it first in the final for the second year in a row. The title of world champion in 2014 but went to the Swiss Emilien Badoux, as the culmination of a season in which he secured the top three podium finishes in five races. Strong emotion for the athlete who became the first Swiss ever to win the title of Snowboard Freeride World Champion.
In skiing the 15 athletes in the race gave us an incredible show. The Swede Reine Barkered - World Champion 2012 - won the final victory of the Xtreme Verbier for the second time in his career. The athlete has faced the ominous north wall with elegance and safety such as to make it look like a breeze, and took home a record score of 93.25 points with a solid race, fast and free of smudges landings of the jumps.
All eyes, however, were for the Frenchman Loic Collomb-Patton, the athlete who held the greatest number of chances for the title. First in the standings since the first race held in Courmayeur, in Italy, the skier has shown all deserve it courageously facing the Bec des Rosses in a quick race, then placed in a 360 ° out of a huge cliff. Earned him third place in the race and the title of world champion in 2014 in his first year as a competitor of the FWT.
"It 'a dream come true. I was not feeling very well when I was there at the start, the tension was high and I was not quite sure on the line I'd chosen. But when you're there, the only thing to do is jump, and do a quick race and powerful. - Declared the champion after the race - So I did, and I would say that it worked! My goal for this is my first year at the FWT was to place me in the top 12 in the standings, earning the right to play in the final. Winning is a dream! "
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