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ContestHappening 16 2016/17 | Season Ender

End of another mixed contest season

by Tobias Huber • 04/10/2017
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Anne-Flore Marxer
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Anne-Flore Marxer
With the last ContestHappening for the 2016/17 season, we take another brief look at the FWT Final in Verbier and the winners of the overall FWT ranking, and take a look at who has won the qualifier categories and qualified for next year's tour. Finally, it's all about the Open Faces final event in Gastein! I'd like to thank the readers, am open to criticism and would like nothing more than snowier winters and safer conditions at the competitions in the future. Then reporting would be more fun than constantly writing about difficulties and bad snow conditions...

The 2017 Freeride World Tour season has now been over for a good week and the world champions in the Freeride World Tour contests are: Lorraine Huber (ski, AUT) Léo Slemett (ski, FRA), Marion Haerty (snowboard, FRA) and Sammy Luebke (snowboard, USA).

Women's snowboard

In a rather subdued competition for the title, Anne-Flore Marxer (SUI) won in Verbier ahead of Marion Haerty (FRA) and Audrey Hebert (USA). The title thus went to Marion Haerty for the first time.

Women's skiing

Lorraine Huber took third place in Verbier and thus the FWT title for the first time. Eva Walkner won: "It would be more important to me to win the Xtreme for the first time than to win the title for the third time," said two-time FWT winner Eva Walkner (AUT) before the season. The judges made her dream come true. With a controlled run and the longest jump of the day, the Kuchler native managed to do just that. With 80 points, she won two points ahead of Kylie Sivell (CAN).

Men's snowboard

Sammy Luebke (USA) was already the overall winner of the FWT before the Swatch Xtreme Verbier. He forgot to take his bib number up with him this time, but he doesn't really need an additional marker as he currently dominates the snowboard category by far. Nevertheless, the defending champion went all out and showed two huge airs in the dogleg couloir. Second place went to rookie Davey Baird (USA) ahead of Jonathan Penfield (USA). Thomas Feurstein (AUT), who was competing at the Bec des Rosses for the first time, started off with a jump right at the beginning and added three more jumps to his flowing run in the steep slope. As a result, he finished fourth in Verbier and also secured fourth place in the overall standings.

Men's skiing

Loïc Collomb-Patton (FRA), Léo Slemett (FRA) and Kristofer Turdell (SWE) were tied at the top of the FWT before the Swatch Xtreme Verbier. Léo Slemett (FRA) had the best performance of this trio today, showing a 360 and several high jumps. His second place secured him the overall title. However, victory in Verbier went to Reine Barkered (SWE), who hammered an outstanding run into the slope with some of the biggest jumps of the day:

Third place went to Ryan Faye (USA) with a spectacular run (360 & backflip, but not quite a clean landing).

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Anne-Flore Marxer
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Anne-Flore Marxer

FWQ results

The qualifier season is over and the winners and successors have been determined. 12 FWQ riders from both regions qualified for the 2018 season. This means that one athlete per category and region qualifies and three in the men's ski category.

Here you can find the top 3 of the respective categories in the gallery.

In the men's ski category, the winner Sam Lee has already qualified anyway, so the fourth, Mickael Bimboes (FRA), will be back on the tour next year!

Gastein 2* FWQ

The Feeride contest season in German-speaking countries entered its grand finale with the premiere of an FWQ contest in Gastein. In the men's ski category, Tao Kreibich from Vorarlberg topped his overall success in the Austrian Freeride Series with victory on the Mauskarspitze. His compatriot Mara Neumayr won the women's snowboarder category, while German Otto Greither won the snowboarder category. Denmark's Malene Madsen led the women's ski category.

The premiere in Gastein today provided the perfect setting for the big season finale for the freeriders. For the season finale, the riders were once again rewarded with good weather and - according to the circumstances - acceptable snow conditions on a playful 2* face. But even at the end of the freeride season, the battle for the 600 points for victory was once again a tough one. After all, some of the riders were also competing for the title of Austrian freeride champion, above all Tao Kreibich from Voarlberg, who crowned his excellent season with victory on the day and overall victory. With a fast, fluid run and some solid jumps, Kreibich was able to make the most of the early starting number two: "All my expectations were exceeded this season. This finish is once again absolute madness. The Mauskarspitze is a really cool face that surprised me," explained the man from Vorarlberg, who led an Austrian triple success: second place went to Patrick Gstrein, third to Benjamin Pichler.

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Reine Barkered
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Reine Barkered

Dane Malene Madsen celebrated her second win of the season in the women's ski event: "I'm impressed by this playful face. I had a very good feeling and a good flow today." Upper Austrian Jacoba -Jay- Kriechmayr finished in second place, with third place going to Sweden's Hannah Haglund.

In the women's snowboard category, Mara Neumayr was also a winner from Austria: "I had an early number and very good conditions. It got soft at the bottom, so you had to show a bit of skill," said the seasoned Vorarlberg native, who was delighted with her second win of the season. Germany's Svenja Hansen finished in second place, ahead of Austria's Tamara Fritz.

Germany's Otto Greither won the men's snowboard event. All the more impressive as the German with the high number 51 had to contend with the spring-like conditions in the face. The best Austrian was Gabriel Indrist in second place, third place went to Dutchman Jelle Beenker.

Here are all the results from the contest in Gastein. A further report by Manuela Mandl from the Season Ender in Gastein, which goes beyond the information in the press release, will follow soon!

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