Jib King 2017
Sam Baumgartner, Nina Ruster, and Moritz Happacher are the jibbers of the day
Flachauwinkl, 6th of January 2017. In spite of freezing cold and half a metre of pow, nearly 40 riders met at
Absolut Park to start contest season with Jib King on Three Kings Day. The shapers had done a great job and
the Jib Park was perfectly groomed for the freeskiers, who showed creative and diverse runs to win the titles.
The judges wanted to see fluent and stylish, clean lines rather than spin-to-win, that’s what Josh Absenger insisted on
during the riders meeting in the morning. Thanks to a selection of eleven obstacles, the Jib Park offered many options to
show individual runs. Like last year, there were three different categories to be judged: boys under 15, women and men.
All contestants had two runs to prove their skills — for the ladies and the boys, the better run was counted for the result,
while the men had to make tit to the finals first. For all winners, fine prizes sponsored by Tigas Base were waiting.
At first, the men’s qualification was on: From the beginning, the trick level was high and the guys were destroying the
park until the best eight were announced for the finals on the stairset. All of the finalists had four runs, in which they
had to show two different tricks. Sam Baumgartner won the Jib King title with a sick fs switch up sideflip to fakie on
the concrete ledge and a switch lip 270 on the downrail. Gideon Mayer made second place with a lip 270, 270 out on
the doublekink rail and a switch lipslide to fakie on the downrail. The third place was reached by Maj Stirn with a
onefoot slide change leftside 360 out on the concrete ledge and a frontside switch up pretzel 270 out on the doublekink.
Nina Ruster convinced the judges with a rightside 360 safety on the jib kicker, a beautiful 270 on the downrail, and a
stylish blindside 450 off on the flatrail. Second and third place went to two Absolut Park teamriders: Stefanie Mössler
with a 360 mute, a lipslide on the downrail, and a railslide pretzel 270 off, and Regina Rathgeb with a 360 safety grab, a
270 on the downrail, and a fs switch up fakie on the waterfall tube.
Moritz Happacher was the best in the boys under 15 category, showing a stylish cork 540 on the jib kicker, and a switch
lip 270 followed by a backfoot slide on the dropdown rail. Michael Rohrmoser followed on the second place with a
cork 5 safety, a switch lipslide pretzel 270 out on the downrail, and a switch up 270 out on the flatrail. Luis Resch made
third place with a rightside 360, a slide 270 out, and a switch up 270 out on the dropdown rail.
Allfreeskiersgavethefingertotheprobablycoldestdayofthelastfiveyearsandcelebratedthefreestylescene’s
firstmeetingoftheyearwithcreativetricksonahighlevel.StefanieMösslersummeduptheday:“Itwasgreat
again,becauseit’sadifferentflairandatmosphereuphereaftersomesnowfall.Theweatherwasn’tperfect,but
itdoesn’thavetobeforjibbing.Wehadperfectsnowconditionsandtheparkwasshapedwellandwehada
blast.“
Overall Results Freeski
Men
Women
Men U15
1.SamBaumgartner
1.NinaRuster
1.MoritzHappacher
2.GideonMayer
2.StefanieMössler
2.MichaelRohrmoser
3.MajStirn
3.ReginaRathgeb
3.LuisResch
4.MaxHeider
4.PatriziaHolzmann
4.PhilippStrubreiter
5.FabioDoberauer
5.FilippoKreindl
6.JuliusGerhardt
6. Laurin Hafner
7.NikPodrepsek
7. Felix Steindl
8.ZigaKovacic
8. Manuel Lerchbaumer
9.JohannesFritzenwallner
9. Simo Peltola
10.JonasSeiwald
10. Nico Huber
11.MichaelPlutke
11. Nic Biembacher
12.JulianSoucha
12. Christian Lanner
13.RaphaelWöhrer
13. Stefan Heiss
14.TimVanDyck
14. Elias Gwehenberger
15.MatthiasKrallinger
15. Daniel Lindmoser
16.PatrickErtl
16. Sebastian Pichler
17.KevinKlima
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