Freestyle Skiing World Championships 2005

Freestyle Skiing World Championships
	Men's	Ladies
winner
Aerials	Steve Omischl	Li Nina
Moguls	Nathan Roberts	Hannah Kearney
Dual moguls	Ruby Dawson	Jennifer Heil
halfpipe	Mathias Wecxsteen	Sarah Burke
Ski cross	Tomáš Kraus	Karin Huttary
Competitions
Venues	Ruka , Finland
Individual competitions	10
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The 11th Freestyle Skiing World Championships took place from March 17th to 20th, 2005 in Ruka , Finland .

The attractiveness of the Freestyle Skiing World Championships has been increased with the addition of the new halfpipe and ski cross competitions . While the halfpipe is best known from snowboarding , ski cross was relatively unknown in Europe until four years ago , although the sport boomed under the name of skier cross in the USA. The FIS has meanwhile recognized the trend and has been organizing its own World Cup tour since the 2002/03 season . With the first World Championships as part of the Freestyle Skiing World Championship, the new trend sport experienced its greatest climax to date.

Around 300 athletes from 30 nations started in the five disciplines. Since the first Freestyle World Championships in Tignes in 1986, the biggest championships of this sport have taken place in Ruka .

Men

halfpipe

Ten out of 19 participants qualified for the finals.

space	country	athlete
1	France	Mathias Wecxsteen
2	France	Loïc Collomb-Patton
3	Canada	Corey Vanular
4th	Norway	Andreas Håtveit
5	Sweden	Jon Olsson
6th	Switzerland	Reto Comincioli
7th	France	Laurent Favre
8th	Finland	Kalle Leinonen
9	Canada	Matthew Hayward
10	United States	Tyler Peterson

Date: March 17, 2005

Markus Kaiser (14.)

Andy Gloor (16.)

Ski cross

46 athletes took part in the competition, 32 of whom qualified for the quarter-finals. 16 reached the half-way and eight reached the final.

space	country	athlete
1	Czech Republic	Tomáš Kraus
2	Sweden	Jesper Brugge
3	Norway	Audun Grønvold
4th	Sweden	Tommy Eliasson
5	Sweden	Lars Lewén
6th	Switzerland	Mike Schmid
7th	Finland	Juha Haukkala
8th	Czech Republic	Stanley Hayer

Date: March 18, 2005

Isidor Grüner (9.)

Richard Spalinger (10.)

Andreas Steffen (11.)

Roman Hofer (13.)

Conradign Netzer (14.)

Wolfgang Auderer (17.)

Markus Wittner (21.)

Aerials

27 athletes competed in the Aerials. After qualifying, twelve of them competed for medals and places.

space	country	athlete
1	Canada	Steve Omischl
2	Canada	Jeff Bean
3	Belarus	Alyaksey Hryschyn
4th	Belarus	Dzmitryi Daschtschynski
5	Canada	Kyle Nissen
6th	United States	Ryan St. Onge
7th	Russia	Enver Ablaev
8th	Switzerland	Thomas Lambert
9	Canada	Warren Shouldice
10	Belarus	Zimafej Slivets
11	Russia	Dmitri Marustschak
12	United States	Jeret Peterson

Date: March 18, 2005

Christian Kaufmann (19.)

Moguls

52 freestyle skis competed in this competition. 16 reached the finals in qualification.

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Nathan Roberts
2	Canada	Marc-André Moreau
3	Australia	Dale Begg-Smith
4th	France	Guilbaut Colas
5	United States	Toby Dawson
6th	Canada	Warren Tanner
7th	Canada	Pierre-Alexandre
8th	Finland	Janne Lahtela
9	Finland	Mikko Ronkainen
10	France	Pierre Ochs

Date: March 19, 2005

Grischa Weber (14.)

Marco Hofstetter (24.)

Gerhard Blöchl (29.)

Christoph Stark (31.)

Dual moguls

51 freestyle skis took part in this competition. 32 of them qualified for the next round. In other one-on-one races, half of the athletes were eliminated. Places 1 to 8 were awarded individually.

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Toby Dawson
2	Finland	Sami Mustons
3	United States	Jeremy Bloom
4th	Finland	Mikko Ronkainen
5	Australia	Dale Begg-Smith
6th	Japan	Yu Masukawa
7th	Canada	Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau
8th	Canada	Marc-André Moreau
9	Russia	Vitaly Gluschenko
10	United States	David Babic

Date: March 20, 2005

Christoph Stark (17.)

Gerhard Blöchl (17th)

Christoph Stark (17.)

Grischa Weber (17.)

Marco Hofstetter (33.)

Women

halfpipe

Only nine female snowboarders started in the halfpipe. Six of them qualified for the finals.

space	country	sportswoman
1	Canada	Sarah Burke
2	United States	Kristie Leskinen
3	Norway	Grete Eliasen
4th	Switzerland	Virginie Faivre
5	United States	Gina Gmeiner
6th	United States	Jaime Sundberg
7th	Sweden	Marta Ahrenstedt
8th	Canada	Dania Assaly
9	Canada	Chelsea Henitiuk

Date: March 17, 2005

no starters from DA-CH-L

Ski cross

25 women competed in ski cross. 16 of them qualified for the quarter-finals.

space	country	sportswoman
1	Austria	Karin Huttary
2	Sweden	Magdalena Iljans
3	France	Ophélie David
4th	Finland	Anu Pesonen
5	France	Virginie Costerg
6th	Japan	Noriko Fukushima
7th	Norway	Gro Kvinlog
8th	Canada	Anik Demers

Date: March 18, 2005

Alexandra Grauvogl (10.)

Katharina Gutensohn (11.)

Franziska Steffen (13th)

Angela Senftinger (17.)

Anne-Patricia Gugger (18th)

Seraina Murk (20th)

Maike Hujara (21.)

Emilie Serain (22.)

Aerials

26 female snowboarders started the competition. Twelve qualified for the next round.

space	country	sportswoman
1	China	Li Nina
2	Switzerland	Evelyne Leu
3	China	Guo Xinxin
4th	Russia	Anna Sukal
5	Belarus	Ala Zuper
6th	Australia	Elizabeth Gardner
7th	United States	Emily Cook
8th	Russia	Anna Belich
9	Belarus	Assol Slivets
10	United States	Jana Lindsey

Date: March 18, 2005

Manuela Müller (25.)

Moguls

16 of the 29 female snowboarders qualified for the final round.

space	country	sportswoman
1	United States	Hannah Kearney
2	Czech Republic	Nikola Sudová
3	Austria	Margarita Marbler
4th	Japan	Aiko Uemura
5	Canada	Jennifer Heil
6th	United States	Jillian Vogtli
7th	United States	Laurel Shanley
8th	Canada	Sylvia Kerfoot
9	Canada	Stéphanie Saint-Pierre
10	Russia	Lyudmila Dymchenko

Date: March 19, 2005

no further starters from DA-CH-L

Due to the tie-break rule, Margarita Marbler finished third despite having a tie with second-placed Nikola Sudová.

Dual moguls

29 starters took part in this competition. 16 reached the next round after qualifying, eight the quarter-finals and four the semi-finals. The two winners ran for the gold medal, the losers fought for bronze.

space	country	sportswoman
1	Canada	Jennifer Heil
2	Norway	Kari Traa
3	Japan	Aiko Uemura
4th	Russia	Lyudmila Dymchenko
5	Czech Republic	Nikola Sudová
6th	Canada	Sylvia Kerfoot
7th	France	Sandra Laoura
8th	United States	Laurel Shanley

Date: March 20, 2005

Margarita Marbler (9th)

Medal table

space	country
1	Canada	3	2	1	6th
2	United States	3	1	1	5
3	France	1	1	1	3
4th	Czech Republic	1	1	-	2
5	China	1	-	1	2
	Austria	1	-	1	2
7th	Sweden	-	2	-	2
8th	Norway	-	1	2	3
9	Finland	-	1	-	1
	Switzerland	-	1	-	1
11	Australia	-	-	1	1
	Japan	-	-	1	1
	Belarus	-	-	1	1
total		10	10	10	30th

Web links

• Freestyle Skiing World Championships 2005 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)