This weekend officially kicked of the competitive snowboarding “I-want-to-go-to the-Olympics” season with the flame retardant, mouse dissolving, caffeinated, carbonated high fructose corn syrup event at Breckenridge, Colorado December 12-15, 2013.
It was the weekend of Shaun White’s nemeses. Thanks to an ankle injury in the halfpipe final (again) Shaun White finished second behind a hard charging Greg Bretz (pictured above). Then White decided to sit out the slope style event which was taken by Olympic Gold Medal favorite Mark McMorris. It would appear Shaun is already plotting out a dramatic Olympic storyline.
On the women’s side Torah Bright edged Kelly Clark in the pipe (Elena Hight didn’t land a run, sadly and Hannah Teter didn’t make the final finishing 16th in qualifying). Jamie Anderson did her usual by dominating the Slopestyle. For the complete, easy to read results, follow the jump.Men’s Halfpipe Final
1 Greg Bretz 91.40 18.20 91.40
2 Shaun White 37.40 90.40 90.40
3 Taylor Gold 67.00 89.60 89.60
4 Louie Vito 88.00 73.00 88.00
5 Scotty James 85.00 19.40 85.00
6 Ayumu Hirano 35.80 83.80 83.80
7 Danny Davis 81.60 47.40 81.60
8 Ben Ferguson 76.80 66.80 76.80
9 Benji Farrow 70.60 12.80 70.60
10 Christian Haller 27.80 69.40 69.40
11 Scott Lago 16.40 68.80 68.80
12 Kent Callister 49.60 66.60 66.60
13 Iouri Podladtchikov 13.40 64.20 64.20
14 Taku Hiraoka 60.20 26.20 60.20
15 Zachary Black 43.40 25.80 43.40
16 Spencer Shaw 13.80 9.40 13.80
Women’s Halfpipe Final
1 Torah Bright 95.40 11.60 95.40
2 Kelly Clark 90.60 33.60 90.60
3 Chloe Kim 85.00 89.40 89.40
4 Arielle Gold 22.00 84.20 84.20
5 Kaitlyn Farrington 67.40 83.80 83.80
6 Gretchen Bleiler 76.80 80.00 80.00
7 Xuetong Cai 19.00 44.80 44.80
8 Elena Hight 13.20 25.80 25.80
Women’s Slopestyle Final
1 Jamie Anderson 21.40 96.00 96.00
2 Enni Rukajärvi 31.00 89.40 89.40
3 Silje Norendal 17.40 86.20 86.20
4 Isabel Derungs 25.60 68.80 68.80
5 Jessika Jenson 64.00 35.20 64.00
6 Jordie Karlinski 47.80 59.20 59.20
7 Aimee Fuller 53.80 39.40 53.80
8 Sarka Pancochova 30.60 34.80 34.80
Men’s Slopestyle Final
1 Mark McMorris 95.00 97.80 97.80
2 Sven Thorgren 91.00 28.00 91.00
3 Maxence Parrot 19.20 89.00 89.00
4 Sebastien Toutant 87.60 87.60
5 Chas Guldemond 85.20 85.20
6 Brandon Davis 72.80 72.80
7 Spencer Link 16.60 58.40 58.40
8 Eric Beauchemin 47.00 53.40 53.40
9 Ulrik Badetücher 53.00 25.00 53.00
10 Nikolas Baden 29.80 44.00 44.00
11 Stale Sandbech 43.40 43.40
12 Aleksander Østreng 28.60 43.00 43.00
13 Gjermund Braaten 41.60 30.60 41.60
14 Sage Kotsenburg 37.40 37.40
15 Eric Willett 36.80 36.80
