NZ Snowboarder Zoi Sadowski Synnott Finishes Fourth
NZ Snowboarder Zoi Sadowski Synnott Finishes Fourth at World Cup Final
Mammoth
Mountain, USA (5 February 2017) – The Cardrona NZ
Park & Pipe team have faced challenging weather conditions
for theToyota U.S. Grand Prix stop in Mammoth Mountain,
California this week. Snowfall and heavy wind forced event
organisers to postpone the snowboard slopestyle World Cup
finals twice and eventually to cancel the men’s freeski
slopestyle finals all together. However, the competition was
not without its highlights with 15-year-old snowboarder Zoi
Sadowski Synnott (Wanaka) claiming a fourth place finish at
her first World Cup and Tiarn Collins (Queenstown) finishing
in eighth place in the men’s snowboard slopestyle
final.
Zoi’s score of 71.25 saw her miss the podium by
the narrowest of margins with 2017 X Games slopestyle gold
medallist Julia Marino (USA) finishing in the bronze medal
spot on 71.85 points. American riders made a clean sweep of
the podium, Olympic champion Jamie Anderson the best
qualifier and last to drop in of the eight girls, scoring
80.25 for the win. Second place went to Hailey Langland,
fresh off a big air win at the X Games, on 77.40
points.
Seemingly unfazed by the two day hold on
competition schedule thanks to the weather and still facing
challenging conditions with flat light today, Zoi was able
to put down her top scoring run on her first of two
attempts.
Starting out with a smooth run through the rail
section at the top of the course Zoi then nailed the jump
line with a backside 540, switch back 540, and frontside 720
to finish.
“It’s a run I’m really hyped on,” she
said. “My goal today was just to land my run so I’m
really happy with the result.”
After finishing third in
qualifying heats, Tiarn Collins pushed hard with technical
tricks for a high scoring run in finals but a couple of
small mistakes on the rail section were enough to cost him
valuable points.
Although not able to execute his rail
tricks quite as planned, he landed a clean and technical
combo through the jump line - including cab 9 switch double
tail grab, front 10 mute, back double 12 - and was happy
enough to finish eighth in the 16-man final.
“Making
finals again was awesome and I was stoked to make it top to
bottom of the course today,” he says.
He will not have
to wait long to deal with any sense of unfinished business
with the next World Cup competition due to take place in
Quebec City, Canada from 9-12 February.
The Mammoth
Mountain men’s freeski slopestyle competition was due to
take place immediately after the snowboard finals today but
with weather conditions deteriorating and no further
contingency days left in the schedule the competition had to
be
cancelled.
-Ends-
Results
Full
results of this season's fourth slopestyle World Cup staged
at Mammoth Mountain (USA) can be viewed online.
• Final results women
• Final results men
• Slopestyle World Cup standings
women
• Slopestyle World Cup standings
men