Torstein Horgmo
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nation | Norway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | February 18, 1987 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Trondheim | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Slopestyle, big air | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | resigned | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | November 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Torstein Horgmo (born February 18, 1987 in Trondheim ) is a Norwegian snowboarder . He mainly drives slopestyle and big air . Very rarely does he go to halfpipe competitions.
Career
Horgmo drove his first FIS World Cup race in March 2004 in Bardonecchia , which he finished in 30th place on the halfpipe. At the Snowboard Junior World Championships in 2005 in Zermatt , he won bronze in Big Air. In January 2006, he finished second on the quarter pipe and first in slopestyle at the O'Neill Pro Freestyle in Avoriaz . At the beginning of the 2007/08 season he won the Slopestyle at the Abominable Snowjam on Mount Hood . In the further course of the season he came third in slopestyle at Air & Style in Munich , second at the Australian Open in Perisher Blue and The Honda Session in Vail and first at Stylewars in Falls Creek . At the Winter X Games 2008 in Aspen he won gold in Big Air. The following season he won in slopestyle at the Australian Open in Perisher Blue and at the Winter Dew Tour on Mount Snow and in Northstar-at-Tahoe . At the Winter X Games 2009 he won the silver medal in Big Air. In the 2009/10 season he took second place in the Winter Dew Tour Slopestyle ranking. Also that season he finished second at the Burton New Zealand Open in Cardrona and at The Oakley Arctic Challenge in Oslo . At the Winter X Games 2010 he won silver in Big Air, as in the previous year. In the following year he came in sixth place in the Slopestyle at the Winter X Games . In Big Air, he won the gold medal for the second time. He was the first ever snowboarder to land a triple cork at the Winter X Games .
At the beginning of the 2011/12 season, Horgmo took second place at the Air & Style in Beijing . In January 2012, he won silver in the Big Air competition at the Winter X Games 2012 . At the Snowboard World Championships in Oslo in 2012 , he finished 21st in slopestyle. In the 2012/13 season he won the Burton European Open in Laax and finished second at the Burton US Open in Vail . In March 2013, Slopestyle won his first World Cup victory at the FIS World Cup race in Špindlerův Mlýn . At the Winter X Games 2013 he won gold in Big Air. He finished the season in third place in the TTR World Snowboard Tour overall ranking and third place in the FIS Slopestyle World Cup. In a fall during a training run on the Olympic track in Krasnaya Polyana , he broke his collarbone on February 3, 2014 and was unable to start at the Olympics. In the 2014/15 season he took third place in the slopestyle at The Mile High in Perisher Blue and at the Burton European Open in Laax. At the Winter X Games 2015 , he took sixth place in Big Air and in Slopestyle. The following year he came 11th in the Slopestyle at the Winter X Games 2016 .
He is the first rider to land a Triple Cork 1440 (four rotations on its own axis and three backflips).
In November 2017 he announced that he would no longer take part in competitions and would only concentrate on filming in the future.
successes
2004/05 season
- 3rd place - Snowboard Junior World Championships 2005 , Big Air
2005/06 season
- 1st place - O'Neill Pro Freestyle, Slopestyle
- 2nd place - O'Neill Pro Freestyle, Quarterpipe
2007/08 season
- 1st place - Abominable Snowjam, Slopestyle
- 1st place - Stylewars, Slopestyle
- 1st place - Winter X Games 2008 , Big Air
- 2nd place - Australian Open, Slopestyle
- 2nd place - The Honda Session, Slopestyle
- 3rd place - Air & Style , Slopestyle
2008/09 season
- 1st place - Australian Open, Slopestyle
- 1st place - Winter Dew Tour on Mount Snow, Slopestyle
- 1st place - Winter Dew Tour in Northstar-at-Tahoe, Slopestyle
- 2nd place - Stylewars, Slopestyle
- 2nd place - Winter X Games 2009 , Big Air
2009/10 season
- 1st place - Winter Dew Tour on Mount Snow, Slopestyle
- 2nd place - Burton New Zealand Open, Slopestyle
- 2nd place - Winter X Games 2010 , Big Air
- 2nd place - The Oakley Arctic Challenge, Slopestyle
- 2nd place - Winter Dew Tour 09/10 Slopestyle classification
2010/11 season
- 1st place - Winter Dew Tour in Breckenridge, Slopestyle
- 1st place - Winter Dew Tour in Killington, Slopestyle
- 1st place - Winter X Games 2011 , Big Air
- 3rd place - Winter Dew Tour in Ogden, Slopestyle
2011/12 season
- 2nd place - Air & Style , Big Air
- 2nd place - Winter X Games 2012 , Big Air
2012/13 season
- 1st place - Winter X Games 2013 , Big Air
- 1st place - Burton European Open, Slopestyle
- 1st place - FIS World Cup races in Špindlerův Mlýn, Slopestyle
- 2nd place - Burton US Open, Slopestyle
- 3rd place - TTR World Snowboard Tour Slopestyle ranking
- 3rd place - FIS Slopestyle World Cup
2013/14 season
- 2nd place - US Snowboarding Grand Prix and FIS World Cup races in Copper Mountain, Slopestyle
2014/15 season
- 3rd place - The Mile High, Slopestyle
- 3rd place - Burton European Open, Slopestyle
Web links
- Profile of Torstein Horgmo on worldsnowboardtour.com
- Torstein Horgmo in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Profile of Torstein Horgmo on xgames.espn.go.com
- Torstein Horgmo's website - torstein.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Torstein Horgmo Announces Retirement from Competitive Snowboarding . In: TransWorld SNOWboarding . November 3, 2017 ( transworld.net [accessed February 2, 2018]).
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SURNAME | Horgmo, Torstein |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian snowboarder |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1987 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Trondheim |