Beijing, China – In his third appearance at the event, Finnish rider Juuso Laivisto on Sunday claimed his second first-place finish at China’s TTR 5Star 10th Red Bull Nanshan Open in Beijing.

“It’s been awesome to see how the event has grown the last few years, and to see such legends in the judging booth made it extra special to win here today,” Lavisto said as he celebrated his win.

With judges including Michi Albin, Ingemar Bachman and Scotty Wittlake in charge of narrowing Saturday’s 12 top-ranked riders down to four for Sunday afternoon’s Super Finals, the level of riding from the qualification round was elevated as riders gave their all for the TTR points and prize money on the line. After two runs each, USA’s Sam Hulbert would enter the Super Finals ranked first, followed by Laivisto, Roope Tonteri of Finland and Korea’s Teddy Koo.

Laivisto clinched first place on his second run, going huge with back-to-back backside 900 mutes, followed by a 50-50 to method on the polejam, backside lipslide on the downrail finishing off in style with a tweaked out frontside 360 nosebonk on the Red Bull cube. Tonteri was unable to stomp what could have been a first place run, landing a cab 900 indy but reverting out on his impressive backside 1260 mute attempt, still finishing his run off in style with a switch boardslide 270 out on the polejam and a lipslide 270 out on the downrail, enough for third place. Hulbert took second with a backside 720 to frontside 1080 on the kickers and was the only rider to hit the jib section’s oversized-pipe with a 50-50 to backside 360 out.

Once the snowboarding side of their trip was over, riders focused on getting their voices in tune for the evening KTV-party session and once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Great Wall.

10^th Red Bull Nanshan Open Final Results