Photo: Pablo Azocar
It’s day two and three of the 2011 Burton NZO has happened with halfpipe qualifiers happening yesterday and the semi’s for the slopestyle happening this morning. There’s a tonne of photos from the last few days along with a quick update on the results so far…
MENS HALFPIPE QUALIFIERS
1. Kazuumi Fujita
2. Brett Esser
3. Ikkou Anai
4. Tore Holvik
5. Sato Shuhei
6. Dylan Bidez
WOMENS HALFPIPE QUALIFIERS
1. Haruna Matsumoto
2. Rebecca Sinclair
3. Hikaru Oe
4. Xuetong Cai
5. Holly Crawford
They will line up against invited riders like Danny Davis (USA), Queralt Castellet (ESP), Hannah Teter (USA), Iouri Podladtchikov (SUI) and Kelly Clark (USA) in the semi-finals on Friday and Saturday.
WOMENS SLOPE SEMI-FINALS
1. Charlotte Van Gils
2. Shelly Gotlieb
3. Jamie Anderson
MENS SLOPE SEMI-FINALS
1. Tim Humphreys
2. Stale Sandbech
3. Seppe Smits
Other top riders that made the cut included Sebastian Toutant (CAN), Tyler Flanagan (USA), Christian Haller (SUI), Mark McMorris (CAN) and Gjermund Braaten (NOR).
The comp continues over the weekend – I’ll add results to the site as I get them!