NZsnowboard.com

5th September 2007

The Cardrona team skiers and riders were just beaten out of first place by some strong international competition at the Slopestyle day at the Coke Zero Cardrona Games.
 
Jossi Wells (NZ, 85.8) was edged out of first place by Charles Gagnier (CAN, 86.8) in the men?s ski event. Janina Kuzma (AUS, 68.5) was second to Ken Herman (USA, 69.5) in the women?s ski event, and Mitch Brown (NZ, 77.5) was beaten out of first by Eric Willett (USA, 83.0) in the men?s snowboard event.


 
Michelle Shea (USA, 71.3) won the Female Snowboard Slopestyle with local Kendall Brown (NZ, 63.5) coming third.
 
At his second Coke Zero Cardona Games, Jossi Wells said, ?I?m happy coming second to Charles as he?s the slopestyle man and did the same to me last year.?


 
Luke Smith did another back flip on his motorbike for the crowd along with a series of other impressive big air FMX tricks. Chris Brown and Paul Thacker continued to wow the crowd with snowmobile big air all round the base of Cardrona. All to the tunes of Salmonella Dub DJ Sound System.
                                            
 
More Facts:
Participants: 65 men, 22 women from 8 countries
Weather: fine weather for finals, cloudy in the morning
Length of Slopestyle: 400m
Rails (in order): Flat-Down and Down rails side by side; Battleship/Gap-Down/Up-Gap-Down skate style rail set; Down-Flat-Down and Down rails side by side.
Jumps (in order): 9m; 13m; 15m


 
More Quotes:
Tom Willmott, NZ Snowboard Coach, ?It was a fantastic day with powder runs in the morning and a great slopestyle course in the afternoon. There was excellent riding in a strong international field and it was great to see New Zealanders on the podium.?
 
Mitch Brown, NZ Snowboarder, ?The floaty last jump gave me some great air time and I managed to pull off a Backside 7 Melon (2 full turns grabbing the middle of the board).?
 
 
Results:





 
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Bruce McGechan, Sales & Marketing Manager, Cardrona Alpine Resort
T: 03 443 7341   M: 021 501 488   E: bruce@cardrona.com