Snowboard World Championships 2007

Snowboard World Championships 2007
	Men's	Ladies
winner
Snowboard cross	Xavier de Le Rue	Lindsey Jacobellis
halfpipe	Mathieu Crepel	Manuela Pesko
Parallel slalom	Simon Schoch	Heidi Neururer
Parallel giant slalom	Rok Flander	Ekaterina Tudezheva
Big Air	Mathieu Crepel	only men
Competitions
Venues	Arosa (Switzerland)
Individual competitions	5	4th
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The 7th FIS Snowboard World Championships took place from January 13th to 20th, 2007 in Arosa , Switzerland . Competitions were held in parallel slalom, parallel giant slalom, snowboard cross , big air (men only) and in the halfpipe .

Award

The award took place on June 3, 2004 at the 44th FIS Congress, which took place in the Hotel Intercont in Miami .

Men

Snowboard cross

87 snowboarders competed in this competition, 32 of whom made it through the qualifying round.

space	country	athlete
1	France	Xavier de Le Rue
2	United States	Seth Wescott
3	United States	Nate Holland
4th	France	Vincent Valery
5	France	Paul-Henri de Le Rue
6th	Austria	Mario Fuchs
7th	Austria	Markus Schairer
8th	United States	Jason Smith

Qualification: January 13th, 9:30 a.m.
Finals: January 14th, 1:45 p.m.
Guillaume Nantermod (9th) Lukas Grüner (13.) Dieter Krassnig (18th) Reto Jenni (19.) Marco Huser (20th)	David Speiser (25.) Michael Layer (30.) Stephan Werlen (32nd) Konstantin Schad (42nd)

Parallel giant slalom

space	country	athlete
1	Slovenia	Rok Flander
2	Switzerland	Philipp Schoch
3	Switzerland	Heinz Inniger
4th	Austria	Siegfried Grabner
5	Austria	Andreas Prommegger
6th	United States	Tyler Jewell
7th	France	Nicolas Huet
8th	Slovenia	Izidor Šušteršič

Qualification: January 16, 9:00 a.m.

Finals: January 16, 12:15 p.m.

Marc Iselin (9.)

Alex Deubl (18th)

Lukas Grüner (19.)

Simon Schoch (30.)

Alexander Maier (34.)

Patrick Bussler (DSQ)

Parallel slalom

60 starters took part in the competition. 16 of them reached the final round after qualifying. In direct comparisons in the eighth, quarter and semi-finals, the better ones reached the next round. The losers in the semi-finals competed for bronze in the small final . The two winners competed for gold in the Big Final .

space	country	athlete
1	Switzerland	Simon Schoch
2	Switzerland	Philipp Schoch
3	Slovenia	Rok Flander
4th	Austria	Andreas Promegger
5	France	Mathieu Bozzetto
6th	Italy	Roland Fischnaller
7th	Slovenia	Dejan Košir
8th	France	Nicolas Huet

Qualification: January 17, 9:00 a.m.

Finals: January 17th, 12:15 p.m.

Marc Iselin (9.)

Siegfried Grabner (13th)

Manuel Veith (19th)

Roland Haldi (20th)

Alexander Maier (21.)

Patrick Bussler (28.)

Alex Deubl (32nd)

Big Air

65 starters competed in Big Air.

space	country	athlete
1	France	Mathieu Crepel
2	Finland	Antti Autti
3	Finland	Janne Korpi
4th	Finland	Sami Saarenpaa
5	Finland	Risto Mattila
6th	Finland	Peetu Piiroinen
7th	Norway	Per-Iver Grimsrud
8th	Belgium	Christophe Reynders

Final: January 19, 6:00 p.m.
Stephan Maurer (10.) Florian Mausser (11.) Alessandro Boyens (14th) Christian Haller (17th) Stefan Gimpl (18th)	Benedikt Nadig (19.) Hannes Krättli (37th) Hubert Fill (51.) Thomas Franc (54th)

halfpipe

69 athletes took part, 25 of whom reached the next round and 12 of them made it to the final round.

space	country	athlete
1	France	Mathieu Crepel
2	Japan	Kazuhiro Kokubo
3	Canada	Brad Martin
4th	Finland	Janne Korpi
5	Finland	Antti Autti
6th	Canada	Crispin Lipscomb
7th	United States	Steven Fisher
8th	France	Gary Zebrowski

Qualification: January 19, 11:30 a.m.

Final: January 20th, 2pm

Sergio Berger (16.)

Markus Keller (17.)

Xaver Hoffmann (18th)

Christian Haller (19.)

Philipp Strauss (23.)

Rolf Feldmann (29.)

Alessandro Mancini (41.)

Christophe Schmidt (45.)

Women

Snowboard cross

42 female snowboarders competed, 16 of which reached the final round via qualification. Eight reached the semi-finals, of which the winners competed for gold in the final and the losers in the small final for places 5 to 8.

space	country	sportswoman
1	United States	Lindsey Jacobellis
2	Switzerland	Sandra Frei
3	Norway	Helene Olafsen
4th	Austria	Doresia Krings
5	Canada	Maëlle Ricker
6th	France	Julie Pomagalski
7th	Switzerland	Tanja Frieden
8th	Canada	Christelle Doyon

Qualification: January 13th, 2:15 p.m.

Finals: January 14th, 1:45 p.m.

Mellie Francon (9th)

Doris Günther (14.)

Simona Meiler (17th)

Manuela Riegler (17th)

Susanne Moll (21.)

Parallel giant slalom

54 participants started this competition. Only 16 survived the qualification. Half were eliminated for the quarter, half and final. The semi-final losers competed in the small final for bronze, the other two in the final for gold.

space	country	sportswoman
1	Russia	Ekaterina Tudezheva
2	Germany	Amelie Kober
3	Switzerland	Fränzi Kohli
4th	Austria	Marion Kreiner
5	United States	Stacia Hookom
6th	Italy	Carmen Ranigler
7th	Russia	Svetlana Boldikova
8th	France	Julie Pomagalski

Qualification: January 16, 9:00 a.m.

Finals: January 16, 12:15 p.m.

Heidi Krings (9th)

Isabella Laböck (11.)

Patrizia Kummer (13.)

Manuela Riegler (17th)

Heidi Neururer (27.)

Selina Jörg (31.)

Doresia Krings (47th)

Parallel slalom

43 athletes started in this competition. After 16 qualified for the final round, eight of them were eliminated in the round of 16 and four in the quarter-finals. The best four competed against each other in head-to-head comparisons. The winners then fought for gold, the two losers for bronze.

space	country	sportswoman
1	Austria	Heidi Neururer
2	Austria	Marion Kreiner
3	Austria	Doresia Krings
4th	Netherlands	Nicolien Sauerbreij
5	Russia	Ekaterina Tudezheva
6th	Austria	Doris Günther
7th	Germany	Isabella Laböck
8th	United States	Stacia Hookom

Qualification: January 17th, 9:00 a.m.

Finals: January 17th, 12:15 p.m.

Amelie Kober (9th)

Fränzi Kohli (12.)

Patrizia Kummer (17.)

Selina Jörg (32nd)

halfpipe

Of the 32 starters, 17 were eliminated in two qualifying rounds, then another nine. The six best competed in a final round.

space	country	sportswoman
1	Switzerland	Manuela Pesko
2	Japan	Sōko Yamaoka
3	Poland	Paulina Ligocka
4th	Japan	Shiho Nakashima
5	China	Chen Xu
6th	Finland	Meri Peltonen

Qualification: January 19, 8:45 a.m.

Final: January 20th, 2pm

Sina Candrian (6th)

Andrea Schuler (12.)

Ursina Haller (27.)

Medal table

space	country
1	France	3	-	-	3
2	Switzerland	2	3	2	7th
3	Austria	1	1	1	3
	United States	1	1	1	3
5	Slovenia	1	-	1	2
6th	Russia	1	-	-	1
7th	Japan	-	2	-	2
8th	Finland	-	1	1	2
9	Germany	-	1	-	1
10	Canada	-	-	1	1
	Poland	-	-	1	1
	Norway	-	-	1	1
total		9	9	9	27

Web links

• Snowboard World Championships 2007 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Organizer website