Stockholm, Sweden – Three weeks after the LG Snowboard FIS World Cup season’s first big air contest in London, Stockholm will host the second event. On Saturday, the biggest names in big air will meet in the Swedish capital for the sixth time since 2006. More than 60 riders from 17 nations have applied to start at the 2011 Stadium Winterjam, which takes place in the city’s 1912 Olympic Stadium.

This year’s field is led by Finland’s Janne Korpi, who not only sits on top of the Freestyle Snowboard Overall World Cup ranking thanks victories in New Zealand (halfpipe) and England (big air), but also clinched the number one spot at the Stockholm event twice before, in 2007 and 2008.  This year eleven Swedes, led by last year’s finalists Kevin Backstrom (fifth), Niklas Mattsson (seventh) and Tor Lundstrom (tenth) will push for a win at home, but Korpi’s Finnish teammates Roope Tonteri and Petja Piiroinen, the reigning World Champion, are also expected to drop in, as will the second and third place finishers from the London Freeze contest last month, Seppe Smits of Belgium and The Netherlands’ Joris Ouwerkerk, who will each be on the hunt for another podium result.

This weekend’s event, the only Snowboard World Cup in Sweden this season, will also feature top Norwegian Vikings Staale Sandbech and Gjermund Braaten, as well as Switzerland’s Patrick Burgener, Austria’s Clemens Schattschneider, and Marko Grilc of Slovenia, who placed second in 2009 by a razor thin margin of only 0.3 points.

The action gets underway at 9:40 a.m. local time Saturday with the men’s qualifiers, followed by the finals at 3 p.m.