

20 January 2013 04:03
2013 fis snowboard world championships - big air - roope tonteri (fin)-2
2013 fis snowboard world championships - big air - roope tonteri (fin)-2 -

Mattsson and Smits round out podium as second and third


By scoring a total of 188.50 points for a cab 1080 and a backside 1080 in the best two out of three runs finals of the best twelve riders, the 20-years-old continued his home country's dominance at big air World Championships decisions.


Claiming the fifth big air Gold for his country in icy and windy conditions today, he also became the second Finnish rider since Antti Autti (2005, Halfpipe and Big Air) to clinch to titles at a single WCS and the fifth male snowboarder to ever do so.

However, being confronted with all this information, Tonteri kept it short.


New chapters in history books

Nevertheless, he wasn't the only one to earn his career's second World Championships medal.

Today's runner-up Niklas Mattsson (SWE, 177.75) also did so thus celebrating a perfect comeback from an injury break landing a backside 1080 double cork and a frontside 1080 double cork.

I'm super stoked to be on the podium. I haven't done those tricks since I injured my right meniscus last September.


Seppe Smits (BEL, 149.50) seems to also still have it as he rounded out the podium as third by stomping a super clean backside 1080 double cork and just keeping hold to his cab 1260.

As a consequence, the rider residing close to Antwerp became the youngest snowboarder in WCS history to claim four medals. Until today, Antti Autti had held the record with 21 years and 310 days.

Four medals is something good to achieve in your life but I'm trying to get some more in the next couple of years.




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