NZ Freeski Open 2008 Starts Today

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The NZ Freeski Open 2008 Starts Today with Halfpipe and Slopestyle tomorrow. Confirmed athletes:

Male:

Colby West (USA)

Xavier Bertoni (FR)

Jossi Wells (NZ)

Russ Henshaw (AUS)

Sam Smoothy (NZ)

Brett Crabtree (CAN)

Justin Dorey (CAN)

Female:

Anna Segal (AUS)

Ashley Battersby (USA)

Kim Lamarre (USA)

Anais Caradeux (FR)

Janina Kuzma (NZ)

Rosalind Groenenwoud (USA)

Kerri Herman (USA)

Word is that Tanner Hall is also competing!!

 

[MC_POUTINE]

sick whatst the media coverage>?

 

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This is the link http://www.freeskier.co.nz/powder/

 

[chugLIFE]

dorey, jossi, and colby, top 3s in everything haha

 

[MC_POUTINE]

word

 

[Poppins]

i wanna see some double front flips! simon dumont does them awesome!

 

[Elg]

Looks like you're right, one of the videos on that site says t-hall is competing.

 

[swTroyanchick]

yeah Joss n colby !!! and gooo ash n anais !!!

 

[heroue]

pipe results : 1 hall 2 dorey 3 wood

 

[Billiards.]

go callllll

 

[Aaaron.]

simon dumont is going to be there?!?!?!

 

[stormtrooper]

i wonder if colby will do a dj flip

 

[Poppins]

yea!! hes awesome!!

 

[AdiibA]

i reckon russ is gonna be really good too!!

 

[swTroyanchick]

yes !!! he might even wins.. or sammy or colby or or or ..really hard to say

 

[quebecfreestyler]

Brett Crabtree is gonna own everyone...

On a more serious note, who is he??

 

[Billiards.]

aye i reckn cal runnerstrom is gnna eat this contest like a mean nz meat pie, cont be bothered losing

 

[heroue]

^ my pipe results were for real

 

[swTroyanchick]

i forgot about HENRIK HARLAUT !!!!! he ll destroy it

 

[sick-as-aids]

sammy carlsons competing to. prety legit international line up

 

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Pipe results:

Women:

1 Manami Mitsuboshi

2

3 Emi Matsuura

Men

1 Tanner Hall

2 Justin Dorey

3 Tanner Hall

Video at http://www.snow.co.nz/snowtv/freeski.asp

Huge slopestyle event today!!!

 

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My bad:

Men:

1 Tanner Hall

2 Justin Dorey

3 Walter Wood

 

[quebecfreestyler]

Justin dorey is definatly gonna win soem big comps next winter if he keeps on stomping that run. it's definatly better then Tanner's if he can get more height out of his hits.

 

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Full results:

MENS

Rank

BIB

Name

Heat 1

Heat 2

Nationality

1

31

Tanner Hall

89

80

USA

2

61

Justin Dorey

85

73

CAN

3

34

Walter Wood

82

20

USA

4

66

Taylor Seaton

75

78

USA

5

4

Byron Wells

77

20

NZ

6

33

Tucker Perkins

20

75

USA

7

21

Matt Margetts

72

66

CAN

8

16

Kentaro Tsuda

69

41

JAP

9

9

Gus Kenworthy

56

53

USA

10

76

Tanno Mikiya

54

14

JAP

11

14

Jonathan Sullan

50

20

USA

12

3

Beau James Wells

46

50

NZ

13

7

Colby West

49

21

USA

14

68

Yuta Ueno

49

25

JAP

15

59

Sean Richard

13

43

USA

16

67

Sean Field

40

20

USA

17

65

Takanori Shibabuki

35

31

JAP

18

32

Tayler King

35

31

NZ

19

24

Olly Allan

33

31

NZ

20

53

Ryan Read

30

17

NZ

21

22

Matt Johnson

27

25

NZ

22

46

Kim Kwang-Jin

26

21

KOREA

23

23

Matt Soundy

19

21

NZ

24

64

Raphael Beazley

19

13

NZ

LADIES

Rank

BIB

Name

Heat 1

Heat 2

Nationality

1

73

Miyuki Hatanaka

65

82

JAP

2

38

Anais Caradeux

71

77

FR

3

72

Manami Mitsuboshi

71

25

JAP

4

69

Em Lonsdale

69

30

UK

5

45

Kerri Herman

62

66

USA

6

70

Emi Matsuura

61

57

JAP

7

75

Shuri Terada

49

54

JAP

8

71

Hannah James

45

48

NZ

9

51

Xenia Rollinson

47

47

NZ

10

52

Bridie-Anne Read

41

41

NZ

11

37

Amy Sheehan

9

9

AUS/ NZ