2008 Burton European Open: Junior and Youth Slopestyle Results

 

LAAX, Switzerland – Fifteen-year-old  Sébastien Toutant from Canada and 14-year-old Alicia Bonnaud from France won yesterday’s junior slopestyle competition, the first event at the 9th annual Burton European Open taking place this week in Laax, Switzerland. In the younger kids division, 13-year-old Scott James from Australia and 13-year-old Emma Claire Bernard from France took the top spots on the podium.
 
Sébastien had this to say after the awards ceremony, “I’m really stoked about getting first place, the course and the level of the riding in the competition. I look forward to competing in the men’s slopestyle competition later this week where I hope to make it far enough to compete alongside snowboard champions like Shaun White. Hopefully, I can pick up a few new tricks from the big pros.”
 
In the boys junior competition, Sébastien stomped a backside lipslide on the first rail, a frontside 180 over the gap to set up for a fakie rock on the mini ramp, a 270 into a front board 270 out on the box, a backside air on the QP, and then a backside 7 mute grab, frontside 5 indy, and Cab 7 through the jumps for his winning run. Canadian Zak Stone got second followed by Finnish rider Petia Piiroinen, younger brother of 2-times BEO Champion Peetu Piiroinen, on 3rd place.
 
In the girls junior division, Alicia took the lead with a front board to boardslide, a nose grab over the gap, rock to fakie on the mini ramp, 50-50 on the box, backside air on the QP and a nosegrab, frontside 3 and a mute grab over the 3 jumps. Silie Norendal and Kari Opsal completed the podium with 2nd and 3 rank with solid runs.
 
Over 100 riders 16 years old and younger competed for top honors at Europe’s premier snowboard event. The youngest rider competing today, Seamus O’Connor from USA, is just ten-years-old and took second place in his age division. Fourteen European nations as well as Japan, Canada, USA and Australia were represented in today’s competition, where the younger kids charged hard – many attempting adult-sized tricks like backside rodeos, 900s and back-to-back 720s.
 
Tomorrow, the young competitors will take center stage again for the junior and youth halfpipe finals where they will warm up the pipe for many of the world’s best pro riders who will be arriving early next week for the main halfpipe and slopestyle finals at the BEO.
 

Results:

 

Name                            Nationality         Sponsor            Points

Slopestyle Boys Juniors:

1. Sébastien Toutant      CAN                O’Neil               74.5
2. Zak Stone                  CAN                 Volcom             71.8
3. Petja Piiroinen           FIN                   Flow                 70.5
4. Ben Watts                 USA                 Burton               68.3
5. Fredrik Wessel          NOR                 Quiksilver          62.8
 
Slopestyle Girls Juniors
1. Alicia Bonnaud           FRA                  Ride                  48.0
2. Silje Norendal            NOR                 Roxy                 46.2
3. Kari Opsal Maeland    NOR                 Protest              40.8
4. Mirabelle Thovex        FRA                  ---------               36.5
5. Aimee Fuller              GBR                 Roxy                 32.5
 
Slopestyle Boys Youth

1. Scott James              AUS                 Quiksilver          56.0
2. Seamus O’Connor      USA                 Burton               41.8
3. Tim-Kevin Ravnjak      SLO                  Burton               41.7
 
Slopestyle Girls Youth

1. Emma Claire Bernard FRA                  Roxy                 26.5
2. Katarzyna Rusin        POL                 -------                 22.2
3. Chloe Trespeuch        FRA                 -------                 17.0
 
About the Burton Global Open Series

The Burton Global Open Series events are the pinnacle snowboarding events of the season. Founded by Jake Burton, the Opens have grown from grassroots events to global spectacles attracting tens of thousands of spectators and riders from around the world. Since the beginning, the Opens have been driven by riders, for riders evolving with snowboarding and riders’ needs over the years. With events held in Canada, Europe, Japan, the United States, New Zealand and Australia, the Opens set the standard for snowboarding events around the globe. For more information, visit opensnowboarding.com.
 
About the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour

The Burton Global Open Series is part of the Swatch Ticket To Ride (TTR) World Snowboard Tour, the largest group of independent freestyle snowboard events in the world. TTR ranks riders based on their results at participating competitions and crowns a Swatch TTR World Champion at the US Open. The Burton European Open are a 6Start TTR Event and are therefore ranked at the highest possible Star level. For more information, visit ttrworldtour.com .

Saturday, January 12th 2008 @ 06:33 AM.
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