SCOTT Riders win two disciplines of feestyle.ch 2005

The winners are… Laurent Favre and Mat Rebeaud.

Europe’s biggest freestyle happening took place this weekend in Zurich, Switzerland – blessed with perfect weather conditions. 41’000 spectators came to see the best riders in the world in Snowboarding, Freeskiing, Sk8boarding, FMX and BMX.

SCOTT’s youngest rider, 14year old Henrik Harlaut from Are (Sweden), travelled to Zurich to compete in the Freeski qualification on Friday night with the aim to take part at the main Big Air. Henrik was in really good shape and showed off his great talent. He won the Freeski qualification with a huge, clean and safe switch 1080. He was the star of Friday night – what he did enjoy of course. Reto Commicoli (Sui) was second, Florian Wieser (A) was third and Misra Noto (Sui) forth. These four riders were qualified for the main Big Air – together with 12 invited riders.

High level riding on Saturday at the Freeski qualification with Jon Olsson, Swe, Simon Dumont, USA, Mike Deschenaux, Sui, Niklas Karlström, Swe and French Freeski star Laurent Favre (SCOTT International Team). Henrik Harlaut tried to keep up with the top stars but he didn’t reach his form of Friday night and ended up in 13th place. Simon Dumont from USA won this qualification. Laurent Favre was 8th and caught the last place for the final.

All the riders were well prepared for the big final day on Sunday. Every rider tried to beat the others at exciting fights. Jon Olsson, Niklas Karlström, Florian Wieser and Laurent Favre scored high and made it into the ½ final. At the end SCOTT rider Laurent Favre (F) had the strongest nerves and won the big final in front of Jon Olsson (Swe). Niklas Karlström was third and Florian Wieser from Austria fourth.

This was not enough for the day. FMX star Mat Rebeau (SCOTT International Team) from Switzerland won the big Final on the FMX ramp after winning already the FMX qualification on Saturday. It was his “one hand backflip with one hand landing” which made the difference to Nate Adams from USA. Manu Troux (F) was third and Remi Blizourd (F) fourth.

This was a really successful event for the SCOTT Team – we congratulate our riders.

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