WSF and TTR approve application for World Snowboarding Championships 2012

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Banked Slalom

WSF and TTR approve application for World Snowboarding Championships 2012

EVENT TYPE

Banked Slalom

World Snowboard Federation (WSF) and TTR Pro Snowboarding today announce the creation of the World Snowboarding Championships. A new world-class snowboarding event, the World Snowboarding Championships will be held every four years and will feature men’s and women’s halfpipe and slopestyle disciplines. The first event is planned in Oslo, Norway, for the 2011/2012 season and will create an environment for the best freestyle riders to compete for world snowboard champion titles in both halfpipe and slopestyle formats.

The concept for the World Snowboarding Championships was developed by a group of international representatives of the sport from the 2008 WSF General Assembly in France, to be shared with the snowboard community at the 2009 WSF & TTR General Assemblies in Austria. It is a joint project of the World Snowboard Federation and TTR World Tour and, with a unanimous vote at the General Assembly 2010, the application for the Norwegian capital, Oslo, has been accepted to hold the inaugural event in 2012. The proposal was put forward by a consortium of the Norwegian Snowboard Federation, the Arctic Challenge organizers and the hosting resort Tryvann.

“The creation of the Snowboarding World Championships is a great step forward for the TTR and the world of snowboarding as a whole,” says Reto Lamm, President of the TTR World Tour. “We look forward to putting on a world-class event to push the progression of the sport and provide a global platform to showcase the best riders in the world.”

“Oslo 2012 World Snowboarding Championships will be a unique and inspiring expression of our sport” says Marco Sampaoli, Vice-President of the WSF. “Moreover the integration of WSF National Snowboard Association in the qualification system will push the development of the sport from the roots on a world wide level.”

The municipality of Oslo will back the project with