Kim Christiansen (snowboarder)

Kim Christiansen
Full name	Kim Christiansen
nation	Norway
birthday	8th May 1976 (age 43)
place of birth	Drammen , Norway
size	186 cm
Weight	85 kg
job	Snowboarder
Career
discipline	halfpipe
society	Norges Halfpipe Club / Aron Snowboard
status	resigned
Medal table
FIS World Championships 1 × 0 × 1 ×
Snowboard world championships gold 2001 Madonna di Campiglio halfpipe bronze 2005 Whistler halfpipe
Placements
World cup
Debut in the World Cup November 15, 1997  World Cup victories 1  Overall World Cup 30. 97/98
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  halfpipe 1 1 1
TTR World Snowboard Tour
TTR debut 2003 last change: January 30, 2009

Kim Christiansen (born May 8, 1976 in Drammen ) is a Norwegian snowboarder who was mainly active as a freestyler in the halfpipe discipline and later also in slopestyle .

Career

Kim Christiansen started snowboarding at an early age and decided to become a professional snowboarder when he was sixteen. He made his first international appearance at the Snowboard World Championships 1997 in Innichen with a thirteenth place. Until then he had not participated in a race in the FIS World Cup. In the World Cup he made his debut in Tignes in November of the same year in seventh place. In the following January he achieved his first and only victory, again in Innichen, directly followed by a second place the next day. Together with another place in the points (17th place) in Whistler , a total of 2300 points were enough for third place in the discipline World Cup halfpipe of the 1997/1998 season and meant 30th place in the overall World Cup. This remained his best results in the overall rankings of the World Cup.

At the premiere snowboard competitions at the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano , he was one of four Norwegians - the others were Daniel Franck , Klas Vangen and Roger Hjelmstadstuen - in the halfpipe competition. He finished 20th out of 36 starters, Gian Simmen from Switzerland won ahead of his compatriot Franck.

After a serious injury, Christiansen started at ISF races and world championships in the 1999 season. In the qualification for the halfpipe of the Snowboard World Championship 1999 in Val di Sole he finished second, but was only able to place 16th and last in the final.

Because of his qualification for the Olympic Games, he came back to the FIS World Cup in January 2001 and came back to the top with a fourth place in Kronplatz . He won his next race - the world championship - and it was also the greatest success of his career, becoming world champion in 2001 in the halfpipe.

In the World Cup of the 2002 season Christiansen completed only two FIS races , where he was third once. In February he was back on the Norwegian Olympic team . This time he was the second best Norwegian in fourteenth, his best finish at the Olympic Games.

Christiansen was only active in the World Cup again in the 2003/2004 season , at the end of the season he had two top ten placements and 23rd place in the discipline World Cup. The following season began for him with a third place on the podium at the World Cup in Saas-Fee . He repeated this placement in January in Whistler at the 2005 World Championships . It remained his last major successes, he was only able to place in the top ten in one race of the Nor-Am Cup . His only race in 2006 was the halfpipe competition at the 2006 Olympic Games in Bardonecchia , as 41st he could not build on previous results.

Christiansen has competed in a total of five races in the Ticket to Ride World Snowboard Tour since 2003. He got two eighth places in slopestyle. In the halfpipe and the quarterpipe he was able to place in the top twenty. He organizes races himself to qualify for the Ticket to Ride World Tour. He also started in slopestyle and was able to achieve a victory. He organizes so-called “old boys” snowboard competitions and championships, in which he competes himself, for example in 2008 he won a race on the mogul slope . Along with Terje Håkonsen he organized the end of 2004 a snowboard event in aid of the tsunami - victims of the Indian Ocean .

successes

• 1st place World Championship Halfpipe 2001 in Madonna di Campiglio
• 3rd place World Championship Halfpipe 2005 in Whistler Mountain
• Victory at the World Cup in San Candido on January 16, 1998

Web links

• Kim Christiansen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Kim Christiansen in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Profile on the TTR tour

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results qualification halfpipe 4th ISF Snowboard World Championship Val di Sole (MS-Word; 144 kB) 1998 Organizing Committee ISF WCH Val di Sole '99. January 27, 1999. Archived from the original on July 9, 2003. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 30, 2009. 
2. ↑ Results Qualification HP Men ( English ) 1998 Organizing Committee ISF WCH Val di Sole '99. January 28, 1999. Archived from the original on August 11, 2004. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 30, 2009. 
3. ↑ ISF freestylers become world champions at the FIS World Championships in Madonna di Campiglio . snowboard.AG. January 28, 2001. Retrieved January 30, 2009.
4. ↑ Teter and Fisher secure USA double victory in the halfpipe . sport2 GmbH. October 30, 2004. Accessed January 30, 2009.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ TTR tour til Drammen! ( Norwegian ) Fri Flyt AS. June 6, 2008. Retrieved January 30, 2009.
6. ↑ Kim Christiansen wins Scandinavian Open Slopestyle Championships . One Media Action Sports Pool. January 17th, 2005. Archived from the original on February 14th, 2005. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 30, 2009. 
7. ↑ TTR News: Scandinavian Open Slopestyle ( English ) snowboarding.transworld.net. January 11, 2005. Retrieved January 30, 2009.
8. ↑ Fargerikt i Old Boys-NM ( Norwegian ) Fri Flyt AS. April 14, 2008. Retrieved January 30, 2009.
9. ↑ Roy Kvatningen: Auksjonerer bort kjendis-snowboard ( Norwegian ) Nettavisen. December 31, 2004. Accessed January 30, 2009.