Who I'd like to meet: Gjermund Braaten from Norway is the World Rookie Champion 2008 Final report from Volkl World Rookie Fest 2008 in Ischgl, Austria
Volkl World Rookie Fest showcase snowboarding future stars coming from 12 countries
at the last Swatch TTR 3star event of the season, hosted in Ischgl, Austria.
With massive switch bs7 and cab9, the norwegian Gjermund Braaten obtained the
title of World Rookie Champion 2008. In the grom category, (under the 14 years),
Dimi De Jong resulted the best with impressive tricks live fs900 tail grab while
Kari Opsal Maeland won among the girls.
The set up of the last World Rookie Fest of the season, powered by Volkl, was
impressive with 2 table top and several rails in the slope style. The first
day of the event was kissed by the sun and after the training Pieps organized
a free avalanche clininc with both pratical and theorical parts. The competition
format was based on overall impression on both rail and kicker lines with 3
runs. On the qualification day 35 selected youngsters from 12 countries challenged
for the last spots of the finals of which 8 were already assigned from the previous
world rookie fests in Italy and Czech Republic and several 1 and 2 star rookie
events world wide.
The level of riding was sick and culminated in a great showcase during saturday
finals. Gjermund Braaten resulted the most impressive rider of the event and
winning the World Rookie Champion title, a ticket to Nokia Air&Style rookie
challenge in Munich, a road trip in Canada featured in the next Pirate Movie
Production “Boarbegged” offered by Tobis Travel Solutions and a
fresh meat on Method Mag.
As best trick a huge bs7 on the 20m kicker from the finnish Petja Piironein.
Giorgio Ciancaleoni from Italy combined several 720 on the kikers with the sickest
rail trick of the day (270in on the kinked) conquering the second overalla position.
Kari Opsal Maeland impressed the jury with back loops and sick rail triks obtaining
an invitation to a photo shooting in Italy by Snowpark.it. As usual, Norway
resulted the best team of the rookie fest obtaining an holiday on Garda Lake,
Italy.
Many of the finalist won tickets to the World Rookie Fest 2009 in Livigno and
for the best groms Dimi de Jong and Maria Delfina Maiocco a Golden Card to join
every WRF 2009 for free. Finally also 2 international sponsorship were assigned:
Volkl snowboard welcomed in its team Yuki Motoki from Japan while Protest did
it with austrian rider Florien Merten.
Grom Female
rank-bib-surname-name-nationality
1 85 Maiocco Maria Delfina aka "Bibi" ITA Grom Male
rank-bib-surname-name-nationality
1 91 De Jong Dimi HOL
2 94 Usletten Emil Andre NOR
3 95 Thorgren Sven SWE Rookie Female
rank-bib-surname-name-nationality
1 21 Opsal Maeland Kari NOR
2 12 Fuller Aimee GBR
3 2 Fazi Francesca ITA Rookie Male
rank-bib-surname-name-nationality
1 20 Braaten Gjermund NOR
2 29 Ciancaleoni Giorgio ITA
3 31 Niemelaa Nuutti FIN Best Trick: Petja Piironein (FIN) huge bs720 on the 20m kicker Best Team: Norway
Info, video, roughcut and pictures
Marco Sampaoli (marco@worldsnowboardfederation.org)
About World Snowboard Federation and World Rookie Tour from rookie to pro system
World Snowboard Federation (WSF) is a non profit international organization
that takes care of the snowboard promotion at every level thanks to a network
of more than 30 countries worldwide. The World Rookie Fest's were born in 2003
in Norway, collecting the inscriptions of the most promising athletes from all
over the world. The WSF World Rookie Tour 2008, in addition to the THREE(3)STAR
World Rookie Fests, include other Rookie Events at ONE(1) STAR and TWO(2) STAR
level in Europe, Asia and North America while in South Hemisphere the Australian
Junior Series are already completed in august 2008. All together the WSF rookie
events will be united to the WSF World Rookie Tour 2008. All these competitions
will ensure results valid for the TTR ranking and WSF is working on a special
World Rookie Rank, which will nominate the World Rookie Fest Champion, based
on the results at the last event in Ischgl (AUT), on 19th of April 2008. The
World Rookie Fest Ranking is a 'work in progress' concept. Concerning the development,
organizers will schedule meetings and presentations designed to develop and
official calendar, criteria and general rules for a World Rookie Tour and World
Rookie Ranking in the near future.
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The O'Neill Evolution is coming at you LIVE from Davos in collaboration with Freecaster. It's already promising to be a banger of an event with the worlds top riders turning out. From Risto Mattila to Seb Toots, it sounds like everyones stoked for the first 6Star TTR event on European soil. With his TTR Number One spot under threat from Janne Korpi, Chas Guldemond has booked a last minute flight to Switzerland, raising the bar and promising to make this another unmissable TTR event.
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