The World Rookie Tour succesfully happened in Serbia, where slovenias Tim Kevin Ravnjac resulted the best rider and Aljosa Krivev won the rookie category. Among the girls Andrea Ugrinoska from Macedonia resulted the best one. Balkan traditions surrounded the event, hosted in Iver Mokra Gora.
Riders from 7 nations, from 7 to 17 years old, enjoy the second edition of the Protest Balkan Rookie Fest, a Swatch 2 Star Slopstyle. Slovenians domanite the event ranks. Austrian shredder Georg Huber got second in the rookie category while David Sutlovic from Croatia the second grom.
Protest Balkan Rookie Fest - Ranks Grom Girls
1 GASPERLIN TJASA SLO 1996
2 GEORGIEVA ANGELINA MKD 1995
Rookie Women
1 UGRINOSKA ANDREA MKD 1992
2 ZORKO MARUSA SLO 1992
3 JACHOVSKA REBEKA MKD 1993
Grom Boy 1 RAVNJAK TIM KEVIN SLO 1996 – Got a ticket to World Rookie Finals 2010 2 SUTLOVIC DAVID CRO 1995
3 ROJEN TIT ŠTANTE SLO 1998
4 KRALJ MAX SLO 1997
5 MALINKOVSKI DAVID MKD 1996
6 TOPCIC GAŠPER SLO 2000
7 SOLAK NJEGOS SRB
8 KRALJ BONO SLO 2002
Rookie Boy 1 KRIVEC ALJOSA SLO 1992 – Got a ticket to World Rookie Finals 2010
2 HUBER GEORG AUT 1994 – Got a ticket to World Rookie Finals 2010 3 PUCKO NEJC SLO 1993
4 GRIGIS MARCO ITA 1994
5 GLATZL MAX AUT 1993
6 GEIGER CHRISTIAN AUT 1994
7 REVERSADE CESAR FRA 1994
8 JOVANOVIC PETAR SRB 1993
9 MILOJEVIC MARIO SRB 1993
10 IVANOVIC NENAD SRB 1992
Watch here the video highlights from the rookie fest stop in Serbia, produced by Board.tv, feature a special soundtrack by Emir Kusturika's band "The No Smoking Orchestra".
The event consisted in 1 day of freeride and 1 day of slopestyle competition offering to official photographers Armin Popp and Marco Sampaoli a lot of nice backgrounds for photoshootings with the rookies.
