{"id":2447828,"date":"2019-08-21T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/new-zealand-new-season-snowboard-world-cup-gets-underway-this-weekend\/"},"modified":"2019-08-21T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T00:24:00","slug":"new-zealand-new-season-snowboard-world-cup-gets-underway-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/new-zealand-new-season-snowboard-world-cup-gets-underway-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand, new season: Snowboard World Cup gets underway this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chris Corning, center, stands atop the podium after a big air event in New Zealand last season.<\/strong>
Ian McGregor \/ AP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The 2019-20 International Ski & Snowboard Federation World Cup snowboard season will begin this weekend at a World Cup big air event in Cardrona, New Zealand.<\/p>\n

The event will mark the anniversary of last August\u2019s World Cup big air event in Cardrona, where Chris Corning, of Silverthorne, became the first snowboarder to land a quadruple-cork 1800 \u2014 four inversions and five 360-degree rotations \u2014 in a World Cup competition. The trick and Corning\u2019s victory in Cardrona propelled the 19-year-old to his second consecutive FIS Snowboard World Cup season championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am excited to be back in New Zealand,\u201d Corning, who now splits time between Summit and Eagle counties, said in a U.S. Snowboard release. \u201cI hope to bring home a win again. The jump is usually pretty great, and if the weather holds out, it should be a good contest.\u201d<\/p>\n

The World Cup big air event will be part of the Winter Games New Zealand, with qualifiers slated for Saturday with finals on Sunday.<\/p>\n

U.S. Snowboard announced Tuesday that fans will be able to watch Saturday\u2019s qualifying round at 6 p.m. mountain time on the Olympic Channel and at OlympicChannel.com. You can also view the action on the U.S. Snowboard Team\u2019s YouTube page at Youtube.com\/user\/fissnowboardchannel\/videos.<\/p>\n

U.S. Snowboard also announced in the release that Olympic slopestyle gold medalist Red Gerard, 19, of Silverthorne, is scheduled to compete at the World Cup big air event, though it\u2019s worth noting Gerard opted for slopestyle competitions rather than big air competitions for the majority of last season. Gerard followed up his 2018 Olympic gold in Pyeongchang, South Korea, with slopestyle victories last winter at the Burton U.S. Open in Vail and at the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix at Mammoth Mountain.<\/p>\n

Fellow American riders scheduled to compete include Luke Winkelmann, of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, who is trained by coach Chris Waker based out of Summit County; Lyon Farrell, of Hawaii; and Storm Rowe, of Vermont.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited to be back on snow down here in New Zealand,\u201d Dave Reynolds, U.S. Snowboard slopestyle and big air pro team head coach, said in the release. \u201cWe have a small, but very capable crew out here with four out of our top five ranked riders competing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The World Cup snowboard season will continue Nov. 2 with the second big air competition of the season, the Modena SkiPass in Italy. The third big air World Cup event is slated for Nov. 29 and 30 in Beijing while the halfpipe season will kick off at Copper Mountain Resort on Dec. 12 to 14.<\/p>\n

The first slopestyle World Cup event of the season is scheduled for the Laax Open in Laax, Switzerland, (an event Corning won last season) from Jan. 13 to 17.<\/p>\n

aolivero@summitdaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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