Wengen, Switzerland – Norway’s Henrik Kristoffersen battled a tough weekend of weather to win Sunday’s classic Wengen World Cup slalom over Marcel Hirscher. Felix Neureuther of Germany was third. Kristoffersen also won last year’s slalom in Wengen, but due to lack of snow last year’s slalom course was set on the downhill track, which has a complete … Continue reading Kristoffersen Wins Wengen Slalom
Font Romeu, France – Park City’s McRae Williams scored his first World Cup win at the freeskiing season’s opening slopestyle World Cup event in France on Saturday. Both men’s and women’s finals were canceled due to weather. It was a great win for Williams, who finished second at last season’s Mammoth U.S. Grand Prix/FIS World Cup slopestyle … Continue reading Williams Wins World Cup Slopestyle
Kreischberg, Austria – Austria’s Anna Gasser and Mons Roisland of Norway each claimed victory at this season’s first slopestyle World Cup competition staged on the 2015 world championships slope at Kreischberg on Saturday. Gasser, the 25-year-old local favorite, lived up to expectations in dominant fashion by keeping the momentum from a second-rank finish at last weekend’s Moscow big … Continue reading Gasser and Roisland Win Slopestyle World Cup Opener
Lake Placid, NY – The U.S. Ski Team aerials athletes put on a show at the Olympic Jumping Complex in Lake Placid on Saturday night to close out the Putnam Investments Freestyle Cup weekend. Ashley Caldwell (Ashburn, Va.) and Mac Bohonnon (Madison, Conn.) both landed on the podium, with Caldwell taking the win for the women … Continue reading Caldwell and Bohonnon Land On Lake Placid Podium
Big Cottonwood Canyon, UT – Utah’s Solitude Mountain Resort is set to host the 2017 Toyota U.S. Grand Prix/FIS Snowboard World Cup and FIS Skicross NorAm Cup this coming week, as part of a test event for the 2019 FIS Freestyle, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships. The event, which will run from Thursday through Saturday, will … Continue reading U.S Grand Prix Finds Solitude
Wengen, Switzerland – Snow and wind wreaked havoc on Saturday’s scheduled Audi FIS Ski World Cup races, cancelling both the men and women’s downhill races in Switzerland and Altenmarkt- Zauchensee, Austria. The women were scheduled to have both a downhill training run and downhill race Saturday in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, but due to heavy snowfall both had to … Continue reading Weather Cancels World Cup Downhills
Wilmington, NY – The first event of the big Putnam Investment Freestyle Cup weekend at Lake Placid took place on the famed Wilderness moguls pitch at Whiteface Mountain on Friday in frigid conditions with icy snow. Australia’s Britteny Cox and Dmitriy Reiherd of Kazakhstan both scored their second career World Cup victories, albeit under drastically different circumstances, as the U.S. … Continue reading Schild and Wilson Reach Moguls Podium on Home Turf
