Mens Halfpipe Finals 2012 World Snowboarding Championships

By: Jackie Williams | Date: Wednesday February 22, 2012

Men’s Halfpipe Finals

The rain coming down not only made the halfpipe faster, it made pipe conditions better (despite the fog) for the final riders competing for the crown at Tryvann Vinterpark in beautiful Norway. The crowds roared as I-Pod laid down his bag of tricks and placed number one after throwing out a run consisting of a backside double cork 1260 mute, frontside double cork 1080 truck driver, cab double cork 1080 mute and a frontside 1080 tail. With such a serious face after his run, you’d think he just lost the comp! Matt and Louie gave it a hard fight and came up close placing 2^nd and 3^rd.

RANK	RIDER	NATION	FINAL SCORE
1	Iouri Podladtchikov	SUI	90.8
2	Matt Ladley	USA	87.6
3	Louie Vito	USA	86.9
4	Taku Hiraoka	JPN	86.3
5	Nathan Johnstone	AUS	85.8
6	Christian Haller	SUI	82.4
7	Ryo Aono	JPN	80.3
8	Benji Farrow	USA	77.0
9	Markus Malin	FIN	75.0
10	Peetu Piiroinen	FIN	39.2

Women’s Halfpipe Finals

The girls were throwing it down hard this event; one example was when Elena Hight got rocked when she hit the coping and knocked her helmet off. Both Kelly and Queralt are always placing on the podium, so it was neck-at-neck to see who’d come off first. Kelly was ecstatic about her 15^th straight win in a row on the halfpipe, commenting, “It’s an honor to win the first TTR Halfpipe World Snowboarding Championships, I’m coming off a pretty incredible winning streak right now and winning this event is really just the icing on the cake.”

RANK	RIDER	NATION	FINAL SCORE
1	Kelly Clark	USA	86.6
2	Queralt Castellet	SPA	85.6
3	Gretchen Bleiler	USA	82.9
4	Rebecca Sinclair	NZL	74.7
5	Cilka Sadar	SLO	74.0
6	Elena Hight	USA	69.7
7	Ursina Haller	SUI	66.0
8	Soko Yamaoka	JPN	60.7
9	Nadja Purtschert	SUI	33.6
10	Mercedes Nicoll	CAN	25.6

For more information, see the WSC website at www.WSC2012.com, with additional competition clips on YouTube.com.

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