Sat, Dec 7 2013 3:52 pm | Comments
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 at an Air & Style contest, finished 15th after a good performance. In Round 2 he lost against the winner Sven Thorgren.
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 Bösiger | 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 |