{"id":26781,"date":"2011-12-04T09:36:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T17:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26781"},"modified":"2011-12-05T07:13:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T15:13:49","slug":"ulrik-badertscher-wins-air-style-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26781","title":{"rendered":"Ulrik Badertscher Wins Air &#038; Style Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xCtnTzcYo-M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In front of 13,000 spectators who would probably do almost anything to get out of another afternoon at the factory, Norway&#8217;s <strong>Ulrik Badertscher<\/strong> whipped out a bs Indy grabbed 1260 Rodeo to take home an unknown about of US cash and 1,000 in Ticket To Ride points at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oakley.com\/sports\/air-style-china\" target=\"_blank\">Oakley Shaun White Air &#38; Style Beijing<\/a><\/strong> on December 3, 2011. <strong>Torstein Horgmo<\/strong> and <strong>Staale Sandbech<\/strong> finished second and third for a Norway podium clean up.<\/p>\n<p>Air &#38; Style&#8217;s <strong>Andrew Hourmont<\/strong> was over the moon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat a night: Spectacular sports, a crowd full of enthusiasm and great entertainment. That was a true Air &#38; Style performance tonight at one of the world\u00b4s most beautiful stadiums. We are proud to have once again proven to be the world\u00b4s premier snowboarding stadium event. The emotion and interest we have encountered here from the media and the people shows that snowboarding is on the right track to become one of the major sports adored and followed by the passionate Chinese youth.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Follow the jump for the official word and full results.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/UlrikBadertscher_TorsteinHorgmo_StaleSandbech_OasBJ11_c_AirStyle.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/UlrikBadertscher_TorsteinHorgmo_StaleSandbech_OasBJ11_c_AirStyle.jpg','popup','width=900,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/UlrikBadertscher_TorsteinHorgmo_StaleSandbech_OasBJ11_c_AirStyle-tm.jpg\" height=\"286\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ulrikbadertscher Torsteinhorgmo Stalesandbech Oasbj11 C Air&#038;Style\" \/><\/a><!--more-->Beijing\/Innsbruck, December 3, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Norwegians fly over the Bird\u00b4s Nest<\/p>\n<p>Ulrik Badertscher (NOR) wins the Oakley Shaun White Air &#38; Style Beijing 2011 ahead of Torstein Horgmo (NOR) and Staale Sandbech (NOR) in front of 13,000 spectators<\/p>\n<p>With a spectacular performance in the Super Final Ulrik Badertscher took home a well-deserved victory earning him the celebrated bounty of an Air &#38; Style champion, the \u201cRing of Glory,\u201d the biggest share of the total 100,000 US-$ prize purse and 1,000 TTR ranking points in another night of snowboarding history made at the Air &#38; Style. In the Super Final, that resembled Scandinavian championships he prevailed over fellow Norwegians Torstein Horgmo (2nd) and Staale Sandbech (3rd) and Swedish rider Nils Arvidsson (4th).  Badertscher needed a perfectly stomped Backside 1260 Rodeo Indy Grab to beat his friends and competitors out, to take home the win. On his way to the Super Final he beat last year\u2019s winner Seb Toutant (CAN) in Round 2 and Gjermund Braaten (NOR) in Round 1. And he also won the Red Bull Best Trick Award. Second-placed Torstein Horgmo commented on Ulrik Badertscher\u00b4s performance: \u201cUlrik is one bad-ass dude. We were all trying to follow the level of snowboarding Ulrik showed, doing what we could to catch him. But there was just no way to beat him tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The attendance of 13,000 spectators in the world famous Bird\u00b4s Nest Olympic Stadium experienced a night of thrills and astonishment, proving that `boiling snow`, the meaning of Air &#38; Style\u00b4s Chinese name         , is an excellent description of the action tonight, and is by no means an exaggeration. The second edition of the Oakley Shaun White Air &#38; Style also marked a major step in snowboarding\u2019s quest of conquering the hearts and minds of the Chinese public!<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Hourmont, founder and organizer of Air &#38; Style: \u201cWhat a night: Spectacular sports, a crowd full of enthusiasm and great entertainment. That was a true Air &#38; Style performance tonight at one of the world\u00b4s most beautiful stadiums. We are proud to have once again proven to be the world\u00b4s premier snowboarding stadium event. The emotion and interest we have encountered here from the media and the people shows that snowboarding is on the right track to become one of the major sports adored and followed by the passionate Chinese youth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tonight\u00b4s result had impact on the TTR rankings: St\u00e5le Sandbech is the new leader on the overall rankings, and Roope Tonteri\u2019s 12th position today was enough to keep him ranked no 1 on the Big Air Tour. Ulrik Badertscher moved to the 5th position on both the TTR Big Air Tour Ranking and TTR Overall Ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Final Results<br \/>\nPos.  Name                                      Country      Points        Best Trick<br \/>\n1.                 Ulrik Badertscher                   NOR           91,67          Backside 1260 Rodeo Indy Grab<br \/>\n2.                 Torstein Horgmo                    NOR           88,33          Cab 1080 Double Cork<br \/>\n3.                 Staale Sandbech                    NOR           81,67          Backside 1260 Mute Grab<br \/>\n4.                 Nils Arvidsson                        SWE          44,33<br \/>\n5.                 Sebastien Toutant                  CAN<br \/>\n6.                 Seppe Smits                          BEL<br \/>\n7.                 Eric Willett                              USA<br \/>\n8.                 Mikkel Bang                            NOR<br \/>\n9.                 Clemens Schattschneider     AUT<br \/>\n10.             Mark McMorris                        CAN<br \/>\n11.             Sage Kotsenburg                   USA<br \/>\n12.             Roope Tonteri                        FIN<br \/>\n13.             Ethan Morgan                         GER<br \/>\n14.             Gjermund Braaten                  NOR<br \/>\n15.             Marko Grilc                             SLO<br \/>\n16.             Torgeir Bergrem                     NOR<br \/>\n17.             Petja Piiroinen                        FIN<br \/>\n18.             Yuki Kadono                           JPN<br \/>\n19.             Jamie Nicholls                        GBR<br \/>\n20.             Charles Reid                          CAN<br \/>\n21.             An Taehwan                           KOR<br \/>\n22.             Markku Koski                          FIN<br \/>\nDNS  Kevin B\u00e4ckstr\u00f6m                    SWE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In front of 13,000 spectators who would probably do almost anything to get out of another afternoon at the factory, Norway&#8217;s Ulrik Badertscher whipped out a bs Indy grabbed 1260 Rodeo to take home an unknown about of US cash and 1,000 in Ticket To Ride points at the Oakley Shaun White Air &#38; Style [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26781"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26810,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26781\/revisions\/26810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}