Teenage sensation Su Yiming of the People’s Republic of China scooped the gold in the men’s snowboard big air event at the Shougang Industrial Park with two-time Olympian Mons Roisland of Norway earning silver and slopestyle champion Max Parrot of Canada rounding out the podium with bronze. A pair of huge 1800s (front and backside) in his first two runs was enough to see … [Read more...] about Beijing 2022: SU Yiming Wins Gold in Snowboarding Big Air
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Beijing 2022: Anna Gasser wins women’s Big Air gold
Anna Gasser of Austria defended her women's snowboard Big Air title with a stunning 1260 performance in the final run at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games at Big Air Shougang. Zoi Sadowski Synnott of New Zealand and Kokomo Murase of Japan took the silver and bronze, respectively, while China's Rong Ge placed fifth, the best ever finish for a Chinese athlete in the … [Read more...] about Beijing 2022: Anna Gasser wins women’s Big Air gold
Beijing 2022: Snowboard slopestyle and big air preview
The Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games are set to start this week, with the Opening Ceremony taking to Beijing’s National Stadium - aka “The Bird’s Nest) - on Friday, February 4th, with the first snowboard action coming in the form of women’s slopestyle qualifications the very next day. You can find the full Beijing 2022 Snowboard programme HERE. Below we’ll take a look … [Read more...] about Beijing 2022: Snowboard slopestyle and big air preview
?Skipass announces the snowboard and freeski Champions. The Big Air Skipass World Cup was a blast!
After the first stop in New Zealand the FIS World Cup landed in the northern hemisphere for a spectacular show which impressed a big crowd of enthusiasts who came to Skipass, Modena, to celebrate the winter sports. This year the leading tourism and winter sports fair in Italy hosted one of the most prestigious international events and best snowboarders of the world. Riders, … [Read more...] about ?Skipass announces the snowboard and freeski Champions. The Big Air Skipass World Cup was a blast!
Japan on top as Iwabuchi and Otsuka take Modena Skipass big air World Cup wins
The first northern hemisphere competition of the 2018/19 FIS Snowboard season took to the skies above Italy on Saturday, as the inaugural Modena Skipass big air World Cup saw Japan’s Reira Iwabuchi and Takeru Otsuka claim impressive wins in front of a massive crowd at the Skipass festival’s 25th anniversary bash. Despite Friday’s programme being washed out by heavy rain and … [Read more...] about Japan on top as Iwabuchi and Otsuka take Modena Skipass big air World Cup wins