22&23/01/2011: One more time the rising stars in snowboarding met for a thrilling battle at the Junior Open in Davos. The bluebird sky above the perfectly shaped halfpipe was a great motivation for the riders, due to sub-zero temperatures only the crowd slightly shivered while watching the competition.
It was just insane, how the youngbloods in snowboarding performed at the Junior Open Davos. In the U16 boys category the Top 3 of the Junior Open Laax in December was on the spot again: The Swiss rider David Hablützel, The Slovenian Tim-Kevin Ravnjak and the German Zimtstern Snowboard Team Rider Linus Birkendahl pushed eachother and featured even higher, heavier and more stylish runs. Finally Dave won with an amazing run: frontside air indy, backside 900 mute, frontside 720 indy, cab 720 mute, crippler, backside alley oop, air to fakie. He placed himself in front of Tim-Kevin and Lucien Koch. Linus couldn’t stick his run in the finals and thus didn’t end up on the podium. Among the youngest, the U13 boys, we had the same winner as in Laax too: Tit Stante from Slovenia. In all other categories the defending champions of Laax haven’t been on-site. That was the chance for Joel Staub (U20 Men), Silvana Clavuot (U20 Women), Verena Rohrer (U16 Women) and Ariana Bellwald (U13 Women), to win the competition in their categories.
The Junior Open events are part of the TTR world tour as well as of the Audi Swiss snowboard series and the riders took home a total prize money of 3000.- CHF as well as some nice Zimtstern gear.
What a sick battle! The riders at the Junior Open in Laax had to deal with heavy weather conditions: Strong winds made the halfpipe super icy and on top of that fog showed up on Sunday. Don’t worry, the young bloods didn’t give-up and perfomed at their best.
We are stoked on the results of the Zimtstern Snowboard Team:
Our Austrian style master Clemens Schattschneider was third in the U20 category and
Linus Birkendahl was faced with his strongest rivals: Tim-Kevin Ravnjak and David Hablützel in the U16-category. After an incredibly impressive run he won the quali. In the finals he was third behind the Swiss and the Slovenian
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For the women there was no age limit and so Helene Nadig could proof her skills in the field of the young girls. She was 2nd in the women’s elite category.
For the 10th time, the Junior Open kicks off the freestyle season at the European Snowboard hub, Laax.
Just as every year the young guns gather at the second weekend in december (2010/12/11&12) at Crap Sogn Gion. They compete in Halfpipe: starting with qualifications on Saturday, the big finals will happen on Sunday. Everyone under 20 is welcome to drop in the Superpipe. For the first time this year the Junior Opens are part of the TTR-Worldtour and a total prize money of CHF 3000.- is waiting for the winners. So you better hurry up to register and be one of the 100 starters.
As it’s the 10th birthday, Zimtstern and Laax will care for a special surprise. But, to keep the gossip factory busy, we won’t tell you more right now.
