{"id":801310,"date":"2019-11-13T13:47:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T20:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=374445"},"modified":"2019-11-13T13:47:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T20:47:09","slug":"summit-residents-minor-miller-win-para-snowboard-world-cup-banked-slalom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-residents-minor-miller-win-para-snowboard-world-cup-banked-slalom\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit residents Minor, Miller win para-snowboard World Cup banked slalom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mike Minor of Frisco, center, stands atop the para-snowboard World Cup podium after winning the season’s first World Cup event in the Netherlands on Wednesday.<\/strong>
Courtesy Mike Minor<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

FRISCO \u2014 A day after they each won at the season-opening Europa Cup event<\/a>, Summit County para-snowboarders Mike Minor and Zach Miller each won their respective divisional races at the season-opening World Cup event in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s World Cup competitions took place on the same banked slalom course and with the same competitors as Tuesday\u2019s Europa Cup event. On the 18-turn banked slalom course at the indoor SnowWorld Landgraaf competition venue dubbed \u201cthe freezer,\u201d Minor comfortably won the upper-limb division by more than two seconds with a time of 43.20.<\/p>\n

\u201cRide fast, take chances,\u201d Minor said to reporters in Landgraaf. \u201cI just like to go as fast as I possibly can on a snowboard, as fast as humanly possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

After not competing on the World Cup circuit last season, the Pyeongchang 2018 Paralympic gold medalist Minor has won two competitions in two days to start the season and will look to break the 44-second mark during Thursday\u2019s third and final day of banked slalom competition.<\/p>\n

Wildernest resident and Minor\u2019s fellow Adaptive Action Sports rider Zach Miller has also opened the season with two wins in two days. On Wednesday\u2019s World Cup course, Miller bested runner-up Owen Pick of Great Britain by just nine-hundredths of a second.<\/p>\n

Miller won his first World Cup competition Wednesday, a day after winning his first Europa Cup, on the strength of his second and final run after he didn\u2019t finish his first run.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took a long time, and it\u2019s been a long journey,\u201d Miller told reporters in Landgraaf. \u201cI\u2019ve been on the World Cup circuit since 2013, so to be able to really put the fastest time down today and get a gold medal, it feels incredible. It feels like all the hard work over the years has really paid off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three other Summit County-based Adaptive Action Sports snowboarders competed in Thursday\u2019s lower-limb two division along with Miller: Garrett Geros (ninth, 48.47), Joe Pleban (11th, 49.11) and Alex Rivera (12th, 49.50).<\/p>\n

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Mike Minor of Frisco, center, stands atop the para-snowboard World Cup podium after winning the season’s first World Cup event in the Netherlands on Wednesday.Courtesy Mike Minor FRISCO \u2014 A day after they each won at the season-opening Europa Cup event, Summit County para-snowboarders Mike Minor and Zach Miller each won their respective divisional races […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-801310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 15:35:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}