Top Moments 2019/20: Snowboard
Apr 15, 2020·Alpine Snowboard
If you follow our channels on social media, you might have seen that for the last two weeks we’ve been regularly posting our #topmements clips from the 2019/20 FIS Snowboard World Cup season. On Tuesday we published the final episode and now we’ve gathered them all up in one place to have a one more look into the most memorable spells of these past park & pipe, snowboard cross and snowboard alpine World Cup campaigns. Enjoy!
Despite its early ending the 2019/20 World Cup season was crammed full of epic moments, and this week we’re taking a look back at 10 of the best. Today we’re kicking things off with @chriscorning’s performance at the big air season finale in Atlanta, where he became the first rider ever to stomp a quad on a scaffold big air jump, taking the eighth win of his World Cup career. And not only would he make history with his quad 1800, but Corning would also walk away with the 2019/20 big air crystal globe - the seventh globe of his career to tie him with @jannekorpi for the most ever by a freestyle rider. #fissnowboard #bigair #chriscorning #topmoments
Next up in the top moments of 2019/20 we turn to Blue Mountain (CAN), where we saw the rarest of all results go down in the big final on the first day of PGS competition. There, @benny_karl and @mirko_felicetti teamed up for an incredible addition to the history books, as the pair crossed the line in a dead heat to tie for first place - the first and only tie for victory in PGS World Cup history 🥇🥇👏#fissnowboard #alpinesnowboard #wearecarving #topmoments
Today's #topmoment takes us to Canada’s Big White resort, where one of the stars of the 2019/20 SBX campaign completed the last-second comeback in the big final to put the icing on the cake of an incredible comeback season. It had been almost three years since @bellebrockhoff last stood on top of a World Cup podium, with two knee injuries and countless hours of struggle, pain and rehabilitation in between, but in late January it all paid off for the 27-year-old, as she was able to battle from fourth place to second in the big final, before out-stretching Michela Moioli at the finish line to claim an inspiring victory in some tough conditions…💪 #fissnowboard #sbx #bellebrockhoff
Youth Olympic Games gold medallist, second place at the Burton US Open, and first-time World Cup winner in front of friends and family at Mammoth Mountain… It was an incredible rookie season for 17-year-old @dustyhenricksen, and putting this run down right in his own backyard for the first World Cup victory of his career lands him amongst our 2019/20 #topmoments. #fissnowboard #slopestyle #dustyhenricksen
This season the USA’s Maddie Mastro made history by becoming the first woman to stomp a double invert in World Cup competition when she landed a double crippler at the Mammoth Mountain World Cup. While she had struggled with the trick throughout this season after landing it for the first time in competition last year at the Burton US Open, Mastro was finally able to step it up and put down what is now her signature trick on home soil, for a worthy entry in our 2019/20 season top moments... #topmoments #fissnowboard #halfpipe #maddiemastro
Germany’s @ramona_hofmeister had a season for the ages in 2019/20, and it all started in Bannoye back in December with a victory in the second of back-to-back races. That win would set off a string of five-straight World Cup victories, and she would finish the year with six individual wins, two team wins, 10 total of podiums, the first-ever PGS crystal globe won by a German woman, AND the parallel overall globe. And, had the season finale in Winterberg not been cancelled, Hofmeister and her teammate Stefan Baumeister almost certainly would have claimed the team globe, as well. Not a bad breakout season for the 24-year-old, making her season-launching win in Russia one of our 2019/20 #topmoments… #fissnowboard #alpinesnowboard #wearecarving #ramonahofmeister
Up until a month ago, Lucas Eguibar had three career SBX World Cup victories - with all three of those wins coming in different seasons at the same track in Veysonnaz (SUI). On March 3rd in Sierra Nevada that all changed in a big way, as the 26-year-old ripper absolutely dominated competition from start to finish, qualifying in first and then taking top spot in every heat of the day on his way to victory on home soil in Spain, and a spot in our 2019/20 World Cup season #topmoments. #fissnowboard #sbx #snowboardcross #lucaseguibar
This right here was something special. In what will go down as one of the great comeback stories in snowboarding history, Canada’s @maxparrot returned to World Cup competition just months after beating cancer - and proceeded to lay a beating on the future Olympic big air venue at the Air + Style Beijing. Already a winner at the X Games Norway back in August, Parrot stepped it up a notch in Beijing, stomping a cab triple 1620 in his first run and his signature frontside triple 1620 in his second to take the victory in China just over a year after his last World Cup competition before the cancer diagnosis. Amongst all of our 2019/20 #topmoments, this one is a highlight… #fissnowboard #bigair #snowboarding #maxparrot
After missing nearly two full seasons of action due to injury, @ormerodkatie returned to World Cup competition in a big way in 2019/20. She announced that she meant business with a second-place at the season-opening big air competition in Cardrona, but come time for slopestyle action she doubled down on that promise by earning podiums in four out of four slopestyle World Cups on the season. Finishing the 2019/20 with 2,600 points, Ormerod would be rewarded with this season’s slopestyle crystal globe - the first-ever for a British snowboarder and #topmoment worthy, indeed. #fissnowboard #slopestyle #katieormerod
Our final #topmoments clip of the 2019/20 season is a bit of anomaly, as @liujiayusnow didn’t win the competition in Calgary, nor did she walk away with the crystal globe for the season, nor did she stomp an NBD trick or make history for her nation. Instead, this moment is about strength, and bravery, and rising above to do something amazing for yourself. Because the slam Liu took during her second run, in an icy pipe at night in the middle of a Canadian winter, would have crippled most of us. In fact, Liu herself could barely walk out of the finish area after this massive deck-check. But after a consultation with the doctors she was back on the lift to the top of the pipe, dropping in for her third run and final run, and upping her score to take third place on the night. Liu showed us what the human will is capable of there in Calgary, and maybe we can all take a little inspiration from what she did that night, during these difficult times. #fissnowboard #halfpipe #jiayuliu
