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NZ Juniors Round out Season with Podiums at National Champs
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NZ Juniors Round out Season with Podiums at National Champs
7 April 2014 - Freeskiers Finn Bilous (Wanaka) and Miguel Porteous (Christchurch) have finished off their northern hemisphere season with second and third place finishes in halfpipe at the USASA National Championships at Copper Mountain, Colorado in the US. While alpine ski racer Piera Hudson (Havelock North) has placed second in the ladies’ Giant Slalom (GS) at the British National Junior Championships in Meribel, France in her penultimate race series of the season.
Finn’s and
Miguel’s results come off the back of solid performances
at the 2014 FIS Freeski and Snowboard Junior World
Championships in Italy last week at which Finn claimed fifth
place in the halfpipe and Miguel seventh
place.
Following a delayed departure from Italy the
pair only arrived in the US a few hours before the USASA
competition was scheduled to start. Finn struggled in the
snowy conditions and he didn't manage to put down the run he
wanted while Miguel crashed on his second run but overall
they were pleased with their results. First place went to
Jaxin Hoerter from Breckenridge, Colorado.
Piera was
pleased with her second place finish in the GS at the
British National Junior Championships having also posted a
career best in the previous day’s Slalom with a 37 point
result.
She now has one more race series in
Courchevel, France before returning home to begin
preparations for the New Zealand season. Piera is pleased to
have lowered her FIS points (which determine world ranking)
over the past northern and southern hemisphere seasons and
is looking forward to the season ahead.
Full results
here:
http://data.fis-ski.com/alpine-skiing/results.html
Ends
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