Freeride World Tour
The Freeride World Tour is an annually toured series of events in which the best freeskiers and snowboard freeriders compete for individual event wins, as well as the overall title of World Champion in their respective genders and disciplines. The events take place on what's commonly referred to as "backcountry", "big mountain" or "extreme" terrain - essentially ungroomed powder snow on dangerously steep, mountainous slopes.
The first event series under the Freeride World Tour moniker took place in 2008. Prior to that it was known as the Verbier Extreme, originally a snowboard only contest launched in 1996 - with skiers also invited to compete in 2004. For the 2013 season, the Freeride World Tour merged with the Freeskiing World Tour and The North Face Masters of Snowboarding, combining all three tours under one unified global 5-star championship series.
World tour locations
Main events
FWT events | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013[1] | 2014[2] | 2015[3] | 2016[4] | 2017 | 2018 |
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Hakuba |
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Kicking Horse, Golden, BC |
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Haines, Alaska |
14/3 | 17/3 | • | ||||||||
Chamonix |
• | • | • | 26/1 | 25/1 | 24/1 | 6/2 | • | |||
Courmayeur |
• | 19/1 | 18/1 | ||||||||
Crested Butte |
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Big Mountain Fieberbrunn |
• | • | • | 9/3 | 1/2 | 31/1 | 6/3 | • | • | ||
North Face Masters Kirkwood |
• | 27/2 | 1/3 | ||||||||
Mammoth Challenge |
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Revelstoke |
• | 7/1 | 18/12 | ||||||||
Røldal Freeride Challenge |
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North Face Masters Snowbird |
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Russian Adventure Sochi |
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Tramface Squaw Valley |
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Nissan Freeride St. Moritz |
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Nissan Freeride Tignes |
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Swatch Freeride Vallnord |
14/2 | 23/1 | • | • | |||||||
Xtreme Verbier |
• | • | • | • | • | 26/3 | 22/3 | 28/3 | 2/4 | • | • |
Freeride World Tour Qualifiers
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013
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2015
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2016 [5]
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World tour winners
References
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-11-21. Retrieved 2013-04-16.
- ↑ http://www.freerideworldtour.com/news-detail/items/swatch-freeride-world-tour-by-the-north-face-2014-competition-schedule-announced.html
- ↑ http://www.freerideworldtour.com/news-detail/items/announcement-of-the-full-calendar-2015.html
- ↑ http://freerideworldtour.com/news/fwt-2016-dates-unveiling
- ↑ Freeride World Qualifier 2016
- ↑ Rankings - Freeride World Tour 2008
- ↑ Rankings - Freeride World Tour 2009
- ↑ Rankings - Freeride World Tour 2010
- ↑ Rankings - Freeride World Tour 2011
- ↑ Rankings - Freeride World Tour 2012
- ↑ Rankings - Freeride World Tour 2013 Archived 2014-01-28 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Rankings - Freeride World Tour 2014
- ↑ Rankings - Freeride World Tour 2015
- ↑ Rankings - Freeride World Tour 2016
- ↑ Rankings - Freeride World Tour 2017