Nate Johnstone fought a close battle with Ipod (Iouri Podladtchikov) at the FIS World Championships in Spain last night and managed to come out victorious. According to the FIS release, “Nate had earned the highest score with fs 10 indy, cab 7 lien, fs 9 indy, back 9 lien plus a huge fs air and thus was crowned the worthy World Champion.” Congrats Nate, rad work! And backing it up for the Australians, Holly Crawford took out gold in the womens with a pretty amazing run consisting of a lien air, backside air, frontside seven mute, cab seven, frontside five and backside air. Check the rankings below and for more, hit the FIS site here.

9TH SNOWBOARD WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS – Mens Halfpipe
1. JOHNSTONE Nathan (AUS)
2. PODLADTCHIKOV Iouri (SUI)
3. MALIN Markus (FIN)
4. HALLER Christian (SUI)
5. LAARI Ilkka-Eemeli (FIN)
6. BURGENER Patrick (SUI)
7. CREPEL Mathieu (FRA)
8. AONO Ryo (JPN)
9. HIRAOKA Taku (JPN)
10. AUTTI Antti (FIN)

9TH SNOWBOARD WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS – Womens Halfpipe
1. CRAWFORD Holly (AUS)
2. HALLER Ursina (SUI)
3. LIU Jiayu (CHN)
4. SINCLAIR Rebecca (NZE)
5. SUN Zhifeng (CHN)
6. CAI Xuetong (CHN)
7. THOVEX Mirabelle (FRA)
8. NICOLL Mercedes (CAN)
9. PELLISSIER Anne Sophie (FRA)
10. OKADA Rana (JPN)