It wasn’t an excellent finish to the much-hyped 2024/25 FIS Snowboard Park & Pipe season opener on Monday at New Zealand’s Cardrona Alpine Resort, as a string of dangerous climate days lastly resulted within the cancellation of finals on the Winter Video games NZ slopestyle World Cup and the reversion to qualification outcomes as the ultimate outcomes for the competitors.
With sustained windy situations skilled all through a lot of the week, adopted by an in a single day storm on Sunday that pressured the closure of Cardrona chairlifts for Monday and the last word cancellation of finals, it took an enormous effort by the Cardrona and Winter Video games NZ crews to make full use of Friday’s beneficial climate window to be able to full the complete qualification slate – an enormous achievement unto itself.
With quali outcomes standing as the ultimate leads to Cardrona, it was final season’s double crystal globe winner Kokomo Murase of Japan strolling away with the ladies’s victory after placing down a rating of 78.10 in her second qualification run on Saturday.
Second place for the ladies went to 17-year-old reigning slopestyle World Champion Mia Brookes of Nice Britain with a rating of 71.65, whereas third place belonged to the USA’s Rebecca Flynn, who dropped in on simply the fifth competitors of her World Cup profession and walked away with a rating of 57.58 for her first World Cup podium.
For the boys, it might be Canada’s Cameron Spalding taking the primary win of his World Cup profession with a standout first run and a rating of 82.50 within the males’s qualification session.
FIS Park & Pipe World Cup motion on the Winter Video games NZ continues this week with freeski halfpipe competitors taking place from 07-08 September. For our subsequent FIS Snowboard World Cup motion, in the meantime, we look forward to the Massive Air Chur in Switzerland, going down on 19 October, 2024.
