{"id":802474,"date":"2019-12-19T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=376253"},"modified":"2019-12-19T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T23:35:00","slug":"winter-parks-irving-breckenridges-hoerter-qualify-to-world-cup-freeski-final-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/winter-parks-irving-breckenridges-hoerter-qualify-to-world-cup-freeski-final-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Park\u2019s Irving, Breckenridge\u2019s Hoerter qualify to World Cup freeski final in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/GrandPrix-SDN-121119-5-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/GrandPrix-SDN-121119-5-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/GrandPrix-SDN-121119-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/GrandPrix-SDN-121119-5-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/GrandPrix-SDN-121119-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/GrandPrix-SDN-121119-5-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Freeskiers Birk Irving, from left, Jaxin Hoerter, and brothers Connor and Dylan Ladd after practice Tuesday, Dec. 10, at Copper Mountain Resort.<\/strong><br \/><em>Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Just days after they competed at the Land Rover U.S. Grand Prix on home snow at Copper Mountain Resort, a bevy of High Country Colorado locals qualified Thursday for the ensuing World Cup freeski halfpipe finals in Secret Garden, China.<\/p>\n<p>The Copper Mountain Grand Prix champion, Aaron Blunck, qualified in first place with a score of 88.00, followed by Birk Irving of Winter Park (87.25) in second place and Breckenridge born-and-raised local Jaxin Hoerter in fifth place (84.75). Taylor Seaton of Avon qualified through in eighth place with a score of 81.75.<\/p>\n<p>Other Americans to qualify were Hunter Hess (third place, 85.75), Lyman Currier (sixth, 84.25) and Samson Schuiling (ninth, 80.75). X Games Aspen 2019 superpipe gold medalist Alex Ferreira failed to qualify in 12th position with a score of 78.25 while Silverthorne brothers Connor (64.75) and Dylan Ladd (54.25) took 17th and 21st places.<\/p>\n<p>International athletes who qualified to Saturday\u2019s final round include Swiss skier Robin Briguet (fourth, 85.00), Canada\u2019s Noah Bowman (seventh, 83.50) and Bingqiang Mao of China (10th, 80.00).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/winter-parks-irving-breckenridges-hoerter-qualify-to-world-cup-freeski-final-in-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freeskiers Birk Irving, from left, Jaxin Hoerter, and brothers Connor and Dylan Ladd after practice Tuesday, Dec. 10, at Copper Mountain Resort.Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com Just days after they competed at the Land Rover U.S. Grand Prix on home snow at Copper Mountain Resort, a bevy of High Country Colorado locals qualified Thursday for the [&hellip;]<\/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-802474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-30 02:26:34","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\/802474","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=802474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}