FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 explained

FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015
Size:150
Host City:Kreischberg
Country:Austria
Nations:40
Events:24
Previous:2013 (freestyle)
2013 (snowboard)

The 2015 FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships were held in Kreischberg, Austria from January 15–25, 2015. In 2014, the FIS (International Ski Federation) decided to merge the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships with the FIS Snowboarding World Championships starting with these championships.[1] The Austrian municipality of Kreischberg was awarded the event in 2010.

Qualification for the women's aerials event began a day before the opening ceremony. Freestyle skiers competed in six disciplines: moguls, dual moguls, ski cross, slopestyle, halfpipe and aerials. Snowboarders competed in six disciplines: halfpipe, slopestyle, parallel slalom, parallel giant slalom, big air and snowboard cross.

Schedule

QQualification FFinal
Event↓/Date → Wed 14 Thu 15 Fri 16 Sat 17 Sun 18 Mon 19 Tue 20 Wed 21 Thu 22 Fri 23 Sat 24 Sun 25
Moguls Q F
Dual Moguls Q F
Aerials Q F
Freestyle halfpipe Q Q F
Freestyle slopestyle Q F
Ski cross Q F
Big air Q F
Snowboard halfpipe Q F
Snowboard slopestyle Q F
Snowboard cross Q F
Parallel giant slalom Q F
Parallel slalom Q F

Medalists

Freestyle skiing

Men's events

Moguls
Anthony Benna
86.89Mikaël Kingsbury
86.54Alexandr Smyshlyaev
85.68
Dual moguls
Mikaël Kingsbury
Philippe Marquis
Marc-Antoine Gagnon
Aerials
Qi Guangpu
139.50Alex Bowen
121.27Maxim Gustik
119.91
Halfpipe
Kyle Smaine
88.00Joffrey Pollet-Villard
86.60Yannic Lerjen
82.40
Slopestyle
Fabian Bösch
92.60Russell Henshaw
91.80Noah Wallace
82.40
Ski cross
Filip Flisar
Jean-Frédéric Chapuis
Victor Öhling Norberg

Women's events

Moguls
Justine Dufour-Lapointe
87.25Hannah Kearney
85.66Britteny Cox
81.98
Dual moguls
Hannah Kearney
Justine Dufour-Lapointe
Yulia Galysheva
Aerials
Laura Peel
88.47Kiley McKinnon
88.12Xu Mengtao
86.84
Halfpipe
Virginie Faivre
83.80Cassie Sharpe
81.00Mirjam Jäger
79.80
Slopestyle
Lisa Zimmermann
85.80Katie Summerhayes
82.80Zuzana Stromkova
77.60
Ski cross
Andrea Limbacher
Ophélie David
Fanny Smith

Snowboarding

Men's events

Big air
Roope Tonteri
173.75Darcy Sharpe
169.50Kyle Mack
163.50
Halfpipe
Scotty James
91.50Yiwei Zhang
89.50Tim-Kevin Ravnjak
89.25
Slopestyle
Ryan Stassel
97.50Roope Tonteri
93.75Kyle Mack
92.75
Snowboard cross
Luca Matteotti
Kevin Hill
Nick Baumgartner

Andrey Sobolev
Žan Košir
Benjamin Karl
Parallel slalom
Roland Fischnaller
Andrey Sobolev
Rok Marguč

Women's events

Big air
Elena Könz
157.75Merika Enne
148.75Sina Candrian
143.25
Halfpipe
Xuetong Cai
94.25Queralt Castellet
81.25Clémence Grimal
80.25
Slopestyle
Miyabi Onitsuka
92.50 Anna Gasser
89.50 Klaudia Medlova
84.25
Snowboard cross
Lindsay Jacobellis
Nelly Moenne Loccoz
Michela Moioli

Claudia Riegler
Alena Zavarzina
Tomoka Takeuchi
Parallel slalom
Ester Ledecka
Julia Dujmovits
Marion Kreiner

Participating countries

A total of 40 countries entered athletes.[2]

Broadcasting

This was the first time the championships were available for live viewing on YouTube for free of charge, in countries where broadcasting agreements were not in place.[3]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: One year to go – Kreischberg is ready to host the FIS Freestyle Ski & Snowboard World Championships 2015! . kreischberg2015.at/ . 14 January 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150122221909/http://www.kreischberg2015.at/fileadmin/user_upload/Documents/Presseinformationen_WM_2015_Englisch.pdf . 22 January 2015 .
  2. Web site: Nations in English . kreischberg2015.at/ . 14 January 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150122071931/http://www.kreischberg2015.at/fileadmin/user_upload/Documents/Nationenliste_aktuell.pdf . 22 January 2015 . dead .
  3. Web site: 2015 FIS Freestyle and Snowboard World Championships to be broadcast free-of-charge on YouTube for the first time ever . 8 October 2014 . infrontsports.com/. . 14 January 2014.