Snowboard Prestige Event from 11-15 January 2022 - The LAAX OPEN are Europe's most important snowboard event: Since 2005, the OPEN in January in LAAX have been a living freestyle lifestyle with contest and culture. Since 2017, the LAAX OPEN have been part of the FIS Snowboard World Cup circuit, where they are considered the favourite event of numerous riders and teams. They also play a prominent role in the media and set standards in reporting as well as in sporting events.
Premiere: Finals in Slopestyle and Halfpipe on Saturday, 15.01.2022
The LAAX OPEN 2022 will play a decisive role: freestyle snowboarders will have the very last opportunity to qualify for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. They travel from all around the globe: Some to punch their Olympic ticket with a brilliant performance at Crap Sogn Gion, others already have their ticket to Beijing but are out for the podium and the biggest share of the 140,000 CHF prize money.
This also results in a premiere: World Cup decisions in two disciplines are scheduled on one and the same day in LAAX, namely on Saturday, 15.01.2022: Slopestyle at lunchtime, the final in the halfpipe in the evening under the spotlight.
What a World Cup line-up: 180 riders from 32 countries
Now that the entry deadline has passed, it is clear that the starting places for the LAAX OPEN 2022 are fully booked. 32 national federations from all five continents have registered 180 riders in the men's and women's slopestyle and halfpipe disciplines to take part in the FIS Snowboard World Cup in LAAX.
Top names like the golden Olympians Anna Gasser (AUT), Chloe Kim, Jamie Anderson, Red Gerard and Shaun White (all USA) appear as well as those of the new freestyle generation with Zoi Sadowski Synott (NZL), Valentino Guseli (AUS) and Leon Vockensperger (GER). Also entered for the prestigious 2022 event are OPEN Champions Yuto Totsuka (2021, JAP), Scotty James (2019 & 2020, AUS), Queralt Castellet (2020, SPA), Julia Marino (2020, USA), Jiayu Liu (2019, CHN), Max Parrot (2017, CAN), Chase Josey (2017, USA), Mark McMorris (2016, CAN) and Stale Sandbech (2015, NOR).
Like other nations, the strong teams from Japan and Switzerland are using the LAAX OPEN 2022 as an opportunity to determine their favourites for the 2022 Olympics. Already in winning form at the end of October were Big Air Chur World Cup opener winners Kokomo Murase (JAP) and Jonas Bösiger (SUI), who plan to compete in slopestyle in LAAX. The Swiss crowd favourites Jan Scherrer and Pat Burgener want to make it to the final halfpipe night final and thrill in the 140-metre superpipe.
Live on Air
The finals of the LAAX OPEN 2022 will be broadcast on TV on SRF in Switzerland and livestreamed worldwide on eurovisionsports.tv and laax.com. Red Bull TV will show the finals time-delayed and as VOD.
Further information is available at www.laax.com/open.
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