{"id":803990,"date":"2020-02-09T07:29:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T14:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=378774"},"modified":"2020-02-09T07:29:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T14:29:23","slug":"u-s-skier-alex-hall-wins-mens-streetstyle-runner-up-in-slopestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/u-s-skier-alex-hall-wins-mens-streetstyle-runner-up-in-slopestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. skier Alex Hall wins men\u2019s streetstyle, runner-up in slopestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alex Hall takes gold in the men\u2019s ski streetstyle competition on Saturday, Feb. 8, day three of the Winter Dew Tour at Copper Mountain.<\/strong>
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COPPER MOUNTAIN \u2013 Mere hours after he took silver in ski slopestyle \u2014 and a night after he won Skier of the Year at the Newschoolers freeski awards show<\/a> \u2014 Alex Hall of Park City won the Dew Tour men\u2019s ski streetstyle competition.<\/p>\n

In the 45-minute jam format, Hall utilized all options on the Red\u2019s Backyard rail garden urban setup, including a backside 450 to 630 out that wowed the crowd. After the pair of podiums and awards show wins all within 24 hours, Breckenridge local Jon \u201cDC\u201d Oetken asked Hall how he felt.<\/p>\n

\u201cTired,\u201d Hall said. What would Hall do next? \u201cProbably sleep,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Hall was on the streetstyle podium with runner-up Siver Voll of Norway and third-place finisher Tucker Fitzsimons of Oregon. Voll was adept all session spinning huge rotations, including 630s, off of super-low rails.<\/p>\n

Colby Stevenson, who also competed in slopestyle earlier in the day, won the best trick award for his 270 transfer to a pretzel out of one of the course\u2019s rail features.<\/p>\n

Men\u2019s snowboard streetstyle<\/strong>
In Friday\u2019s 45-minute jam nightcap under the lights, Miles Fallon stole the show in a scintillating men\u2019s snowboard streetstyle competition that saw a little bit of everything from the dozen daring riders. Fallon won the streetstyle title riding massive wild lines that featured everything from a springboard front-flip off the electrical box feature, to a huge air over the stairs feature to a handspring off the electrical box to a one-footed run that had an exclamation point of a one-footed slide across the electrical box<\/p>\n

Fallon\u2019s friends carried him on their shoulders to the impromtu podium the snowboarders made out of the electrical box feature. Fallon was joined on the podium by third-place Benny Milan and second place Rene Rinnekangas, a Finnish star who also wowed in slopestyle earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

Other highlights of the fun contest were Milam\u2019s switch backside 360 and switch 180 out of the double kink feature that won best trick. And Brandon Davis dropped jaws with his riding all over the course, including a soaring laid-out backflip over the stairs.<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s ski streetstyle<\/strong>
Norwegian freeski star and five-time X Games medalist Johanne Killi took her skills to the streets, winning the women\u2019s ski streetstyle competition on the strength of what the judges\u2019 deemed the best trick in the rail-jam competition: a front-swap transfer of the closeout rail feature with a pretzel 270 out.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s competition also featured a pair of Summit locals in Brooke Potter and Nadia Gonzales, who won the Girls Who Ride Streetstyle competition to earn her way into the competition versus the world\u2019s best. Gonzales won the 40-minute G.W.R. ski jam by focusing on hitting every feature in the course, including a frontside 450 on the tall diamond rail at the center of the course.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe vibe was really nice after having two days of an intense blizzard,\u201d Gonzales said after the G.W.R. win. \u201cIt\u2019s really awesome to see the sunshine, perfect weather, and everybody seemed to be really stoked. I\u2019m excited to ski with all my friends and personal heroes in the pro division.\u201d<\/p>\n

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