LAAX OPEN 2025: Freestyle wins

EVENT TYPE

HP, SS

Date

14 January 2025 - 18 January 2025

LAAX OPEN 2025: Freestyle wins

EVENT TYPE

HP, SS

Date And Time

14 January 2025 - 18 January 2025

What a freestyle festival! The 10th edition of the LAAX OPEN (Jan. 14 – 18) culminated in brilliant final days. Thrilling live music acts alternated between breathtaking tricks in the park and pipe. Three new and three proven champions raised their trophies in the clear air at Crap Sogn Gion.

 

In Snowboarding, the pipe queen is and remains Chloe Kim, who won the LAAX OPEN for the fifth time, followed by Scotty James, who has four victories at the night finals in the superpipe. The young snowboard slopestyle riders Mia Brookes and Cameron Spalding took the coveted LAAX OPEN titles for the first time. All of them pocketed the lion’s share of the CHF 210,000 prize money.

 

However, the biggest winner was freestyle. Freestyle culture, which has been lived and celebrated in LAAX for over 30 years and at the 10th LAAX OPEN presented by Zalando. The (social) media world is full of it and the celebratory mood and enthusiasm of the thousands of spectators is like an endless flower, blossoming each time they think of the LAAX OPEN 2025 experience.

 

Watch the Wrap Up Edit.

 

 

RECAP HALFPIPE: 

 

Chloe Kim and Scotty James win again the LAAX OPEN Halfpipe Titles

 

Style, style, style — rules at the jaw-dropping night final, flabbergasting a 12,000-strong crowd of spectators and raising the roof! All on the Crap Sogn Gion above LAAX. Spotlights on the world’s 20 best halfpipe riders and 70.000 CHF prizemoney FIS Snowboard World Cup.

 

2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2025 — Chloe Kim, the American 24-year-old grande dame of the halfpipe who has won everything there is to win, awes without exception and takes her fifth LAAX OPEN title with her first run, scoring 96.50 points. “I’ve been coming here since I was 9 years old, to be back in 2025 and take home the win feels really special. The progression of the sport and to be part of it means everything to me.”

 

Behind her, US team-mate 24-year-old Maddie Mastro finishes in second place, making snowboarding history as the first woman to land two double corks in one run. Booyah! The Korean 16-year-old Gaon Choi secures third place and stands on the LAAX podium for the first time. Defending champion Mitsuki Ono misses out on the podium in fourth place.

 

2019, 2020, 2024, 2025 — Australian Scotty James shows nerves of steel in the men’s event. “The atmosphere here in LAAX is always unmatched, the crowd is incredible and the pipe is always phenomenal.” The 30-year-old halfpipe veteran dazzles on an incredible second run with a cab triple cork 1440 frontside grab, for which he scores 95.75 points and righteously beams from the podium as the winner for the fourth time. As so often before, his main rivals are the forces-to-be-reckoned-with Japanese Ruka Hirano just behind him in second place, and compatriot Ayumu Hirano, 2022 Olympic champion and two-time LAAX OPEN winner (2016, 2022) completing the top three.

 

 

RECAP SLOPESTYLE

 

Mia Brookes & Cameron Spalding are the champions

 

Mia Brookes and Cameron Spalding are the LAAX OPEN 2025 Slopestyle champions at the FIS Snowboard World Cup in Laax, pocketing the lion’s share of the CHF 70,000 prize money.

 

What a birthday present: Mia Brookes wins the prestigious LAAX OPEN in slopestyle! Accompanied by the roaring applause of thousands of spectators along the course and in front of a unique 360° mountain panorama, she scoops her first LAAX OPEN title and as the youngest ever.

 

Olympic champion Zoi Sadowsky-Synnott jumps into second place, Japan’s Kokomo Murase secures third place with just under a point ahead of Anna Gasser, who finishes just off the podium in LAAX for the first time in years.

 

Cameron Spalding also wins the men’s event for the first time. After third place last year, he is at the top in 2025. The winner’s picture is completed by 2018 Olympic champion Red Gerard (USA) in second place and Noah Vicktor from Team Germany, who, for the first time, finishes in the top three at a World Cup. “The course is awesome. I love LAAX, every year. It’s a course that’s anything but basic. The Snowpark LAAX crew always give it their special touch. It’s fantastic.” A top result for Jonas Hasler (5th/SUI).

 

Mia Brookes lives temporarily in Laax, is a LAAX rider and a snowboarder through and through. The victory in Laax is a dream result for both the young Brit and the organisers. Olympian Zoi Sydowski-Synnott compliments Mia Brookes, who turns 18 on Sunday: “Mia is on fire right now, riding so smooth and stylish.”

 

Results, news and livestream are available at laax.com/open.

 

Photo-Credits: (c) Stadler, Lämmerhirt