Snowboard world championships

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Gold medal of the FIS

The Snowboard World Championships are a regular sporting event in which world champions in snowboarding are determined in various disciplines . In addition to the World Ski Association FIS , the World Snowboarding Federation has been holding its own world championship together with the TTR since 2012 , which is based on the world championships of the International Snowboarding Federation .

history

Before 1993

As early as 1985, competitions were contested that referred to themselves as world championships, including 1986 in Colorado . In 1987 the first snowboard world championship on European soil was held in St. Moritz . However, since there was no World Snowboard Federation at that time, these competitions cannot be recognized as official world championships. After the founding of the ISF , the first snowboard umbrella organization, in 1990, the first ISF World Championships took place in 1993.

1993 to 1999

From 1993 to 1999 the ISF organized the Snowboard World Championships. However, in 1994 there were discussions at the FIS about introducing successful snowboarding as a sport. While the Snowboard World Championships in 1993 and 1995 were organized by the ISF, the FIS organized its own world championships from 1996 onwards. However, since most of the successful athletes started for the ISF, the FIS championships and ratings were initially smiled at and boycotted. In 1997 the FIS and ISF World Championships were held for the first time in the same year . Since the IOC had decided to transfer the management of snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano to the FIS, only snowboarders who also scored points in FIS competitions could now take part in the Olympic Games. For example, the 1997 FIS World Championship was also contested by the ISF athletes, some of whom even won the world championship title. In this way, some athletes managed to become world champions at both events. As the media and the audience turned more and more to the FIS competitions, the ISF ran into financial difficulties and held the last World Cup in 1999. From now until 2012 the global event was only held by the FIS.

1999 to 2012

The FIS World Championships received an even higher priority after 2002, the year the ISF was dissolved, as many world-class snowboarders now also changed associations to continue to compete in the highest competitions. The now most successful athlete at the FIS World Championships, Jasey-Jay Anderson , won a gold medal at the last ISF World Championships in 1999.

Since 2012

The ISF successor association WSF does not name any of its competitions nor world championships (if it has introduced a new championship), so that the snowboard world champions have all won their titles at FIS competitions since 2001. On May 31, 2010, Reto Lamm , President of the TTR, announced that they would hold their own world championships in cooperation with the WSF from the 2011/12 season and named Oslo as the venue. The first alternative WSF / TTR snowboard world championships were held in Oslo from February 10th to 19th, 2012 and attracted great interest from the international snowboard elite.

ISF World Championships

Between 1993 and 1999, a total of four ISF World Championships were held.

Venues

Results

Competitions

Most successful athletes

The Norwegian Terje Håkonsen is the most successful among men , winning all of his three titles in the halfpipe. The most successful female snowboarder also managed to win three gold medals for women, Sandra Farmand from Germany . She won the title twice in the combination and once in the parallel slalom. Most of the medals were won by the Austrian Martin Freinademetz and the American Michele Taggart with two golds and one silver and one bronze each.

WSF / TTR World Championships

The World Snowboarding Federation has held world championships every four years since 2012. The qualification differs significantly from the FIS World Championships. So it is possible for drivers without an association or TTR placement to take part in the competition.

Venues

Competitions

  • Halfpipe (2012)
  • Slopestyle (2012, 2016)
  • Big Air (2016)
  • Quarterpipe (2012)

FIS World Championships

The FIS organized world championships for the first time in 1996. After the second World Championships took place in 1997, they then switched to a two-year rhythm. A total of seven world championships have taken place so far. In 2015, the Snowboard World Championships were held together with the Freestyle Skiing World Championships for the first time .

Venues

Results

Competitions

Most successful athletes

The most successful athlete is by far the French Karine Ruby , who won six gold and four silver medals. She is also the snowboarder with the most medals. In the men's category, the Austrian Benjamin Karl leads the ratings with four gold medals, two silver and one bronze.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Interesting facts about snowboards
  3. ↑ Johannes Schweikle: Snowboarder: The wild times are over . In: Die Zeit , No. 7/1997
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  5. ↑ World's Elite Confirmed For The World Snowboarding Championships 2012 In Oslo, Norway. In: Transworld Snowboarding Online. February 2, 2012, accessed February 4, 2015 .
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