snowmatic Posted March 14, 2015 Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 (edited) Today Saturday 14. we have the last WorldCup parallel slalom race of season. Course: length 290m, vertical drop 86m, 29 gates Weather: foggy, maybe some sun on finals. We will see Justin Reiter (USA) and Caroline Calve (CAN) on this race. Unfortunately no other Americans on that WorldCup final race. Qualification runs starts 9:30 UTC, ends 11:30 UTC Finals starts 13:15 UTC, ends 14:20 UTC And again there is a live-cam headed to the finish area. Livecam on 1280x960 pix and a refresh of every 15': for a replay click here! Venue-site (only in German): http://www.snowboard-winterberg.de/ Winterberg ski-aera are some hills, reaching altitude of 2760ft only, located near of some bigger German Citys around. For to manage millions of skiers and snowboarders on 8 ski aeras they have many modern high-speed chairlifts/gondolas and countless of T-bar lifts. For to be clear, mostly they serv less than 300ft of elevation! I have to remember, 300ft are just good for 1 to 2 turn only if you do big-mountain snowboarding. Very powerfull arrays of snow-makers let it snow for to have all-white perfect slopes. They are now on a 2-ft snowlayer on slope. For watching this PAR race beside slope, spectators have to pay a fee of $20 witch include a bus shuttle from car parking and a live-act right after price-giving. Race you can watch live on German Television ARD, same time like finals starts/ends. Edited March 14, 2015 by snowmatic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowmatic Posted March 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 (edited) First victory for Norway since Years! - stop - F2 back on podium Many spectators beside race course, even if snow was falling on all the finals. Vic Wild destroyed the start gate. Race was hold on. They had to swap a mechanical element of the gate-releasing mechanism. Podium men: 1. Roland Fischnaller (ITA) - SG.snowboards - Vist - F2.Titanium - Northwave.950 2. Benjamin Karl (AUT) - Kessler - home brew plate - home brew bindings - Nortwave.950 3. Konstantin Shipilov (RUS) - ? - Allflex - F2.Titanium - UPZ RC10 Justin Reiter (USA) failed on 1/8 finals (11.) Vic Wild (RUS) was 6. Podium women: 1. Hilde Engeli (NOR) - SG.snowboards - Vist - F2.Titanium - UPZ RC10 white 2. Selina Jörg (GER) - F2 Proto - Vist - F2.Titanium - Deeluxe Track 325 3. Alena Zavarzina (RUS) - Kessler - Allflex - F2.Titanium - UPZ RC10 blue Caroline Calve (CAN) failed on 1/4 finals (8.) Biela Weronika from Poland ! get 4. rank. All overall Worldcup standings are now fixed (big cristal globe). Edited March 15, 2015 by snowmatic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piciu Posted March 14, 2015 Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 Small correction: Podium women: 1. Hilde Engeli (NOR) - SG.snowboards - Rabanser Plate (made by 19.94) - F2.Titanium - UPZ RC10 white2. Selina Jörg (GER) - F2 Proto - Vist - F2.Titanium - Deeluxe Track 3253. Alena Zavarzina (RUS) - Kessler - Allflex - F2.Titanium - UPZ RC10 blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowmatic Posted March 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2015 (edited) 1994 ? For young girls of bunga bunga only? Thanks, but tell it right. Phiokka makes that plates. They look very similar to Vist's. Hilde Engeli was too fast to see the difference. Well, Winterberg hills (Germany) offers to FIS they like to hold race again on next season. FIS can be happy for that. There are no more many resorts which want to be ready/pay for PAR races. Costs are up to $100'000. One more time again that PSL was hold as a single race format. And because that course was flat in the beginning, becomming than more flat in the middle and ending again on flat terrain, riders are not allowed to make one single small failure. In case of failure they loose speed and had been no more able to reach to the front. Once again that race was not a real race. Even grenn course was at first faster, but became than worn out and to the end the blue course was faster. Maybe for next season FIS will rather use a random generator, let the rider go straight down and than FIS tell us the ranking. . Strange sceenes on Veysonaz (Switzerland) Worldcup SBX course that day. On a heat they had troubles to open the start gate. So 2 riders had been blocked, 4 went on course. A referee was holding yellow flag to the 4 riders (which means run is canceled). One rider coming from the air crashed on full speed with his board to the head of referee. On a other heat one rider steers false on a jump. He (Michele Godino) was lifted on a spectacular way over the safety-nets and crashed with his back from very high to the flat. Veysonaz was well known for holding PGS races many times. But than they get once a SBX WC race and now they stay on SBX. No more PGS for the future. Edited March 15, 2015 by snowmatic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piciu Posted March 16, 2015 Report Share Posted March 16, 2015 Phiokka it is not https://www.facebook.com/pages/1994-Snowboard-Binding/195841927164720 :) Hilde was fast indeed, I only noticed this while on the podium. Here's the race coverage: http://www.sportschau.de/wintersport/videoderparallelslalomweltcupauswinterberg100.html 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danger Posted December 26, 2015 Report Share Posted December 26, 2015 Shipilov -- ?? -- his Snowboardbrand is Virus... :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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