Posts Tagged “Burton Global Open Series”

The 28th annual US Open Snowboarding Championships will once again host thousands of fans and many of the world’s top snowboarders for a weekend of slopestyle, rail jam and halfpipe competitions. Taking place at Stratton Mountain Resort from March 15-21, the Open is the first US event since the 2010 Olympics where snowboard medalists Shaun White, Peetu Piiroinen, Scotty Lago, Hannah Teter and Kelly Clark will compete.

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Six Olympians from four countries swept the podium today during the halfpipe competition at the second annual Burton Canadian Open. It was picturesque day in Calgary for the internationally diverse field of riders who were competing for a piece of the $25,000 prize purse, in addition to valuable points towards the Burton Global Open Series and the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour titles.

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Tags: Ben Watts, Burton Canadian Open, Burton Global Open Series, CANO, Cilka Sadar, Dustin Craven, Iouri “I-Pod” Podladtchikov, Justin Lamoureux, Kiwi Kendall Brown, Mercedes Nicoll, Sarah Conrad, Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour titles

The last 5Star event on the Swatch TTR Tour before the Olympics is up this week in Canada: the Burton Canadian Open. With a possible new female Tour leader and lots of changes in the TTR Top 5 on the women’s and the men’s world ranking list, Calgary will surely see some tough competition in the Slopestyle and Halfpipe formats.

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Tags: 5Star TTR event, BCO, BGOS, Burton Canadian Open, Burton Global Open Series, CANO, Olympics, Swatch TTR

Poland’s Paulina Ligocka (25 years old) and Finland’s Peetu Piiroinen (21 years old) won the 11th Burton European Open halfpipe event today. Each will take home US$ 15.000 in prize-money and also important points towards the BGOS and TTR rankings. Ursina Haller (SUI) and Ilkka-Eemeli Laari (FIN) earned second place and Akiko Miwa (JPN) and Iouri Podladtchikov (SUI) took third place.

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Tags: 11th Burton European Open, BEO, BGOS, Burton Global Open Series, Canadian Open, Christian Haller, Enni Rukajärvi, Gian Simmen, Gjermund Braaten, Haller Ursina, Ilkka-Eemeli Laari, Laari Ilkka-Eemeli, Laax, Ligocka Paulina, Miwa Akiko, Piiroinen Peetu, Podladtchikov Iouri, Sina Candrian, Stale Sandbech, Swatch Ticket To Ride World Championship, The Sounds, TTR, Xaver Hoffman