Jan Scherrer

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Jan Scherrer Snowboard
Jan Scherrer - 20th Leysin Nescafé Champs, 8th - 13th February 2011 (32) .jpg
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday July 11, 1994
place of birth Wildhaus
Career
discipline Halfpipe, slopestyle
status active
Medal table
X-Games 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
JWM medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Winter X Games logo X-Games
bronze 2020 Aspen Super pipe
FIS Snowboard Junior World Championships
bronze 2011 Valmalenco Slopestyle
Placements
FIS logo World cup
 Debut in the World Cup November 5, 2009
 World Cup victories 1
 Freestyle World Cup 3. ( 2018/19 )
 Halfpipe World Cup 6. ( 2018/19 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 halfpipe 1 2 0
TTR logo TTR World Snowboard Tour
 Overall rating 5th (2012/13)
 Halfpipe rating 11. (2011/12)
last change: February 3, 2020

Jan Scherrer (born July 11, 1994 in Wildhaus ) is a Swiss snowboarder . He starts in the freestyle disciplines.

Career

Scherrer has been participating in the Ticket to Ride World Snowboard Tour competitions since 2005 . He achieved his first podium finish in March 2007 with third place in slopestyle at the Rookie Invaders in Kühtai . At the Burton European Junior Open 2009 in Laax , he took second place in slopestyle and on the halfpipe . He drove his first FIS World Cup race in November 2009 in Saas-Fee , which he finished in 34th place in the halfpipe competition. In the 2010/11 season he won third place on the halfpipe at the Iceripper Junior Open in Laax and at the O'Neill Evolution in Davos . At the 2011 Snowboard World Championships in La Molina , he came in 35th place on the halfpipe. In March 2011 he achieved his first podium finish in the World Cup with second place at the FIS World Cup race in Arosa . A week later he won the bronze medal in slopestyle at the Snowboard Junior World Championships in Chiesa in Valmalenco . At the Snowboard World Championships 2012 in Oslo , he finished 36th in Slopestyle and 15th in the halfpipe competition. In January 2013 he won the O´Neill Evolution on the halfpipe in Davos. In the 2013/14 season he achieved second place on the halfpipe at the Snowboard Jamboree and FIS World Cup races in Stoneham . In his first Olympic participation in Sochi in 2014 , he came 19th in slopestyle and 18th on the halfpipe. At the end of the season he was Swiss champion in slopestyle. At the 2015 Snowboard World Championships on Kreischberg , he took tenth place in the halfpipe competition. In the 2015/16 season he took sixth place at the Winter X Games 2016 and 17th place on the halfpipe at the X Games Oslo 2016 . After finishing third on the US Revolution Tour in Copper Mountain at the beginning of the 2016/17 season, he finished fourth at the Laax Open 2017 and 16th at the Burton US Open in Vail . He finished tenth at the 2017 Snowboard World Championships in Sierra Nevada . The following year he won the European Cup in Laax and finished ninth at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang .

In the 2018/19 season he won his first World Cup victory in the Secret Garden Ski Resort and at the end of the season he finished sixth in the Freestyle World Cup and third in the Halfpipe World Cup. He finished ninth at the season highlight, the 2019 Snowboard World Championships in Park City . In the following season he achieved four top ten placements, 11th place in the Freestyle World Cup and fourth place in the Halfpipe World Cup. He also won the bronze medal at the Winter X Games 2020 in Aspen and came second at the Burton US Open.

World Cup victories

No. date place discipline
1. December 21, 2018 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Secret Garden Ski Resort halfpipe

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