ContestHappening 16 2016/17 | Season Ender

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).

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!