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Oakley And Shaun White Present Air & Style Beijing 2011

Event information
star accreditation 6STR TTRM date of event 01.12.2011 - 03.12.2011
Format(s) BA location Birds Nest, Beijing National Stadium, CHN
entry criteria Top10 TTR Big Air Tour Ranking plus seeded riders
Prize Money USD 100.000,-
Number of riders 24
Ranking Information TTR 6Star Points
web address www.air-style.com
Online Registration No

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Event History

The Oakley Air & Style Beijing enters into its second year this season and it promises to be a great snowboarding contest. In last years Oakley Shaun White Air & Style the riders benefitted from ideal conditions on the ramp and kicker, towering almost 40 meters above the ground of the Olympic Soccer Stadium, enabling the riders to perform tricks with a long airtime. Thus 8,800 spectators enjoyed a series of double corks and other tricks with the highest level of difficulty and outstanding style. The young Chinese crowd was enthusiastic about the athletic performances of the 16 world-class snowboarders and two local Chinese heroes as well as about the show of Chinese music super star Wang Leehom.

 

Don't miss the live webcast on Saturday the 3rd at 12.30pm CET

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Event videos

TTR World Snowboard Tour 2011/12 - Northern Hemisphere Promo

http://www.ttrworldtour.comWith the Southern Hemisphere leg done and dusted, the TTR World Snowboard Tour will take a brief hiatus before turning all focus to the Northern Hemisphere competition calendar.  The 2011/12 season marks the 10th anniversary of the TTR World Tour and the Northern Hemisphere leg is, once again, packed full of the best independent snowboard competitions in the world on all levels.  New for the TTR Tour this year is the introduction of an all-new World Tour Ranking system that is now broken out to rank riders in individual disciplines: Overall Tour Ranking, Halfpipe Tour Ranking, Slopestyle Tour Ranking and Big Air Tour Ranking.  In addition, the TTR World Tour has a new 6Star competition onboard, the World Snowboarding Championships, which will feature halfpipe, quarterpipe and slopestyle with a huge prize purse worth $500,000 USD.    The 6Star event calendar has shaped up to be an elite list of classic events that have been around for ages with the added highlight of the inaugural World Snowboarding Championships (WSC).  The 6Star Tour will begin in December with the Shaun White Oakley Air & Style Beijing in China where riders will go head-to-head in the famed 'bird's nest' National Stadium.  The Tour will then move to Switzerland in January for the O'Neill Evolution in Davos. Before the the all-new World Snowboarding Championships in Oslo in February, riders will make a stop off in Austria for one of the longest-running events in snowboarding: The Billabong Air & Style Innsbruck.  From here riders will compete at the Burton European Open in Laax. The season will be capped off with the cornerstone of freestyle snowboarding events, the 30th annual Burton US Open, where TTR will crown the Overall, Halfpipe and Slopestyle Tour Champions.  The combined prize purse of all 6Star events for the 2011/12 season is worth a whopping $1.15-million USD.

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TTR - Shaun White and Oakley Present the Air & Style Beijing: Day 1

Riders Ready to Go Head-to-head. 
The Riders Draw took place on Thursday evening after riders returned from the stadium. All the Air & Style events feature a unique head-to-head elimination tournament-style format. So, after training, the riders were brought together to choose names out of a hat to see who will go head-to-head in the first round of competition on Saturday. Each rider will have three runs and the rider with the best score moves on to the next round, while the rider who loses is knocked out of competition. Current Swatch TTR Tour leader Gjermund Braaten (NOR) explains, "You gotta be on it from the start and you gotta throw down your best trick from the start to make it." He was paired with Seppe Smits (BEL) who was excited about the match up saying, "Im up against Gjermund for the first run, It's gonna be a tough match, but I'm looking forward to riding and trying out the jump tomorrow, so we'll see how it goes. "Austrian Werni Stock was paired with a Norwegian youngun, "I got Stale Sandbech, one of the rookies. He moved in for iouri and is a super tough rider, super young and super motivated. I saw some serious tricks from him like Cab 12 and back 10 doubles. I'm gonna give it my best, wish me luck, I really need it. It's gonna be fun. " Stale was equally nervous about his opponent saying, "Werni Stock picked me. It's gonna be hard! It's gonna be really hard! It's a tough contest going head-to-head, and all the riders are really good. It's gonna be a tough challenge for sure." Andreas Wiig (NOR) comments on his opponent, "I got scotty Lago. He was the only one who hit the jump today so I'm shaking in my pants right now."The riders will have one more day of training tomorrow (Friday) before the action kicks of in front of 15,000 fans on Saturday 4th December 2010. Check out the list below for the full head-to-head list for the first round of competition on Saturday.

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Men's Results

Results for Big Air 2011
Rank Name Sponsors Nation Score
1 Ulrik Badertscher Sweet Quiksilver, Swag, Burn NOR 1000.00
2 Torstein Horgmo Oakley DC NOR 942.30
3 Stale Sandbech Oakley Sweet 32 Snowboard Boots, Rome, Burn NOR 900.00
4 Nils Arvidsson Nitro Snowboard Co. Rip Curl, DVS SWE 868.06
5 Mikkel Bang Burton Oakley Analog, Monster Energy, Session Boardshop, Hemsedal Skiheiser NOR 842.41
6 Eric Willett Quiksilver, Vans, Smith, O Matic USA 820.00
7 Sebastien Toutant ONeill Ride Snowboards Oakley Red Bull CAN 798.79
8 Seppe Smits Burton Red Bull, Anon Optics, Red, Absolut Park, Hotzone, 69Slam BEL 780.00
9 Torgeir Bergrem Volcom Nitro Snowboard Co. Monster Energy NOR 763.35
10 Sage Kotsenburg Nike Nitro Snowboard Co. Neff Monster Energy, Loctite, Arnette, Nixon, Protec, Milo USA 746.89
11 Roope Tonteri Burton Anon Optics, Etnies, Board.TV FIN 730.60
12 Marko Grilc Burton Adidas Eyewear Red Bull, Absolut Park SLO 714.50
13 Gjermund Braaten Nike Oakley Nitro Snowboard Co. Sweet Swag NOR 698.58
14 Ethan Morgan Nike Bataleon, Electric, Planet Sports, SWOX Surf Protection GER 682.84
15 Clemens Schattschneider Ride Snowboards Blue Tomato Zimtstern AUT 667.28
16 Mark McMorris Burton Oakley Red Bull, DVS, Red CAN 651.91
17 Petja Piiroinen Billabong, Giro FIN 636.72
18 Yuki Kadono Ride Snowboards  JPN 621.71
19 Jamie Nicholls Nike Oakley Red Bull, Salomon, TSA, Transform Gloves GBR 606.88
20 Charles Reid Burton Oakley Axis CAN 592.23
21 Tae Whan Ahn KOR 577.77
22 Markku Koski Quiksilver, 32 Snowboard Boots, Etnies FIN 563.48
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