Medals at the Snowboard World Championships 2007

Post by **fivat** » Saturday 20 January 2007, 18:53

Medals at the Snowboard World Championships, January 13-20, 2007 in Arosa (Switzerland).

Gold - Silver - Bronze

1. France 3 - 0 - 0
2. Switzerland 2 - 3 - 2
3. Austria 1 - 2 - 1
4. USA 1 - 1 - 1
5. Slovenia 1 - 0 - 1
6. Russia 1 -0 - 0
7. Japan 0 - 2 - 0
8. Finland 0 - 1 - 1
9. Canada 0 - 0 - 1
9. Norway 0 - 0 - 1
9. Poland 0 - 0 - 1

Switzerland has won 7 of the 27 medals and is still dominating Alpine snowboarding with the Schoch brothers, like at the Olympic Games in 2006

Patrice Fivat

Post by **pokkis** » Saturday 20 January 2007, 19:37

I think these statistics are very wisted cause they include kids diciplines, like all medals of France, Finland

Too lazy count these based on real alpine only (dont try to include that silly BX), but must admit that even that sucks cause real apline events like GS are not include there any more, naah life sucks like weather on this season

Post by **fivat** » Saturday 20 January 2007, 20:25

Oh pokkis, you seem depressed

In two weeks, at the ECS, you will feel better... You must miss good snow and steep pistes

pokkis wrote:I think these statistics are very wisted cause they include kids diciplines

Kids? You speak about half-pipe? There were three participants who are 33 years old!

Note that the oldest Alpine rider at the parallel slalom was Chris Klug (USA): 35 years old! (rank 34 in the discipline)

Patrice Fivat

Post by **canmanski** » Sunday 21 January 2007, 9:26

Hey there,

Since I was in Arosa... I do have to agree... alpine has gone soft. The PSL was only 18 gates !!! The top riders were through the slalom in less than 18 seconds !!!
I mean, really, slalom should be at least 40 seconds long... but then, not a lot of people would watch it on the TV.
Now it's short and sweet and fun to watch by a lazy-sunday-beer-drinking TV sport fan.
FIS had to change the rules a bit, to make it more media-friendly. The times of 1 minute 30 seconds GS races are gone .... possibly forever.

Cheers
Bart

47th PGS, 50th PSL

Post by **Felix** » Sunday 21 January 2007, 12:29

How did you get the FIS Points to start or is there an exception for South Africa?
Congrats anyhow.

Post by **Vladimir** » Sunday 21 January 2007, 15:24

fivat wrote:Medals at the Snowboard World Championships, January 13-20, 2007 in Arosa (Switzerland).
Gold - Silver - Bronze
....
6. Russia 1 -0 - 0
....
Patrice Fivat

TUDIGESCHEVA Ekaterina-
our "Alpine rebirth" from Siberia

Post by **canmanski** » Sunday 21 January 2007, 16:07

Hey,

There are no FIS points requirements for World Champs - you need to be entered by FIS recognized national federation ie. be in a National Team.

Cheers
Bart

Post by **vkrouverk** » Monday 22 January 2007, 22:26

canmanski wrote:Hey there,

Since I was in Arosa... I do have to agree... alpine has gone soft. The PSL was only 18 gates !!! The top riders were through the slalom in less than 18 seconds !!!
I mean, really, slalom should be at least 40 seconds long... but then, not a lot of people would watch it on the TV.

What were conditions in Arosa? Maybe course was shortened due to bad conditions? Unfortunately haven't seen nothing from Arosa championship, therefore don't know what conditions there were, just wonderin'

Post by **Hans** » Tuesday 23 January 2007, 19:42

vkrouverk wrote:What were conditions in Arosa? Maybe course was shortened due to bad conditions? Unfortunately haven't seen nothing from Arosa championship, therefore don't know what conditions there were, just wonderin'

They rode on artificial sugar snow. So no serious conditions.

Post by **yyzcanuck** » Wednesday 24 January 2007, 19:34

vkrouverk wrote:Maybe course was shortened due to bad conditions?

Feedback from our National team was that the SL course was short (18 gates) due to choice of piste. If they made more gates (24-30), then the start would have been on a very shallow pitch (low angle). The organizer opted for the short course with a steeper pitch. The piste may have been chosen due to snow quantity & quality.

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Medals at the Snowboard World Championships 2007

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