Jamie Nicholls and Laura Berry take Gold in the Animal Slopestyle Championships

The Animal Slopestyle Championships wrapped up the final day of snowboard competition at the BRITS on Friday 26th March with Laura Berry scooping up the womenís gold and Jamie Nicholls taking his second overall British title for the week.

The womenís Animal Slopestyle Championships kicked off the dayís action, due to high winds the womenís final results were taken from their qualification run. In top spot and taking the womenís 2010 Animal Slopestyle Championship title was Laura Berry. Laura threw down a solid and stylish run including a frontside boardslide on the top rail followed by a boardslide to fakie on the kinked rail and frontside wall ride. Over the kickers Laura stomped a huge straight air over the big kicker, a stylish nose grab and Indy over the bottom big kicker. Second place and the silver medal went to 12 year old Katie Ormerod who stepped it up and landed a solid run including a backside noseslide all the way down the box, followed by a boardslide on the up box, backside switch up on the kinked box and frontside wall ride. Over the kickers Katie stomped a big method over the medium kicker, followed by a backside 360 Indy and nose grab over the bottom medium kicker. Stefani Nurding finished in third place with a 50-50 on the top rail, 50-50 to boardslide on the up box, nose slide on the kinked box and frontside wall ride. Her kicker line included a backside 360 and nose grab over the medium kickers.Laura Berry quoted: ìI’m really stoked to have won because I’ve been injured loads this season. My collarboneís in two pieces and I had some problems with my arteries, so I was in hospital before the start of the season. I just made sure I was solid. Knowing that I only had one run, I just made it a bit safe. Now, I’m just going to cruise around, have some fun, try and learn some new stuff. I’ll definitely come back next year and try and defend the titleî.High winds forced an early end to the full slopestyle run, with judges making the call to shorten the course to the top rail section for the menís Animal Slopestyle Championships. In true British spirit riders embraced the new format and threw down some well honed rail riding skills from across all of the age categories. Jamie Nicholls, who had been riding strong all week, added the 2010 Animal Slopestyle title to his already impressive collection with a winning switch run. Jamieís run included a cab boardslide, switch up, 270 out, switch boardslide on the c-box, switch 50-50 switch front-flip on the box rail and finishing with a cab wall ride. Declan Power, threw down a super smooth run to take second place with a frontside 180 switch up on the first rail, a super clean and stylish boardslide on c-rail followed by 180 switch up on the kinked box and backside lipslide on the top of the wall ride to finish. Third place went to Chris Kightley with a super solid, clean and consistent run including a frontside boardslide on the rail, boardslide on the c-box, followed by a boardslide to fakie on the kinked box and big frontside wall ride.Jamie Nicholls quoted: ìIt feels pretty good to have won. The standard was really good this year. And I won the halfpipe yesterday, too, so I’m pretty stoked! My best trick was probably a 270 on 450 out on the box to that massive drop-off, that was cool, and the switch front-flip as well was also good. I’m out there to get podiums now, on European events. I’ve been getting closer this season at some big competition. So hopefully, next season it’ll all happen.îAnimal British Slopestyle Championship ResultsWomen1st ñ Laura Berry2nd ñ Katie Ormerod3rd ñ Stefani NurdingMen 1st ñ Jamie Nicholls 2nd ñ Declan Power 3rd ñ Chris Kightley Donít forget to check out the BRITS 2010 daily webcasts at www.brits10.com, where you will be able to review the Snowboard and Freeski action and aprËs from the previous dayís competition.The BRITS, which is part of the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour, would not be possible without its highly supportive sponsors:Giro :Animal, Trespass, SNO!zone, Cushe, Snow+Rock, Garmin, Eristoff& Red Bull Demo partners: DC, Salomon, Ride, K2, Line, and Volkl skis. Media partners Whitelines,Dark Summer, Spiked, Extreme Sports Channel, Metrosnow.co.uk,Snowboardclub.co.uk, Skiclub.co.uk,and Natives.co.uk. Destination partners: Switzerland Tourism and Laax