SCANDINAVIAN BIG MOUNTAIN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Arranged annually since 1992, the Scandinavian Big Mountain Championships is the world´s original big mountain competition. Hosting ski area for the event is the small resort of Riksgränsen, located above the Arctic Circle on the border between Sweden and Norway.
The SBMC is not only a race for glory and prize money. It is also the grande finale of the European freeride season with midnight sun skiing and partying in a relaxed atmosphere.
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SBMC 2010 - THE FINAL STORY
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SCANDINAVIAN BIG MOUNTAIN CHAMPIONSHIPS 2010 ACCOMPLISHED
After two days of competing with some of the world’s best freeriders, Wille Lindberg, of Sweden is the 2010 champion.
Today’s big final started at Nordalsbranten, but due to poor visibility, only the snowboard- and telemark disciplines were completed. After a few hours of waiting for weather improvements, the board of riders and the organizer decided to cancel the competition when the fog increased in the afternoon.
The final results in the men’s and women’s alpine disciplines were decided by the score from the first day of competing.
Among the snowboarders and telemarkers, Finland ruled. Snowboarder Nicklas Hollsten and telemarker Joonas Karhumaa are the 2010 Big Mountain Champions.
In the women´s alpine class former Swedish national alpine team skier Janette Hargin took the gold ahead of Lotten Rapp and Christine Hargin.
In the men’s alpine the judges had a hard time separating the podium finishers. After a fast and powerful run with huge cliff jumps and perfect landings, Wille Lindberg took his second victory in history and became the 2010 champion. Emanuel Hedvall in second place did a similar line. Philip Harlaut in third place was the crowd pleaser of the day with a big 360 over the rocks in Nordalsbranten.
Results
Men´s alpine
1. Wille Lindberg , SWE, 8,00
2. Emanuel Hedvall, SWE, 7,93
3. Philip Harlaut, SWE, 7,80
4. Reine Barkered, SWE, 7,77
5. Henrik Windstedt, SWE, 7,70
Women´s alpine
1. Janette Hargin, SWE, 7,13
2. Lotten Rapp, SWE, 6,13
3. Christine Hargin, SWE, 6,10
4. Stephanie Churlet, FRA, 5,97
5. Sara Sandberg, SWE, 5,97
Telemark
1. Joonas Karhumaa, FIN, 13,77
2. Per Jonsson, SWE, 13,12
3. Bård Øymar, NOR, 12,94
Snowboard
1. Nicklas Hollsten, FIN, 9,91
2. Markus Perttunen, FIN, 8,37
3. Magnus Rasmark, SWE, 8,18
See total results (PDF)
 Wille Lindberg |
 Janette Hargin | |
 Joonas Karhumaa |
 Nicklas Hollsten | |
 Wille Lindberg |
 Janette Hargin |
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10-05-20
STARTLIST FINAL
See the startlist for today´s big final (PDF) at Nordalsbranten.
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10-05-19
QUALIFICATION COMPLETED
After one day of waiting for weather improvements, the qualifications in the Scandinavian Big Mountain Championships were held at Nordalssadeln today. The morning started with poor visibility, but the weather cleared up and the competetion could start 30 minuts after scheduled time.
The audience got to see a lot of great skiing from the 134 riders on the starting list.
In the men’s alpine class, the judges had a hard time separating the top ten skiers. Some of the most impressive performances came from Philip Harlaut, Wille Lindberg, Henrik Windstedt, Emanuel Hedvall and Reine Barkered.
The Hargin sisters, Janette and Christin, delivered solid runs with big airs in the girls alpine and so did Lotten Rapp.
Joonas Karhumaa from Finland stood out among the telemarkers with high speed finishing his run with a big 360 over the rocks at Nordalsfjäll.
The top performers in the snowboard disciplin were Markus Pertunen, Magnus Rasmark and Niklas Hollsten from Finland.
The board of riders decided not to present the score from the qualification until the final runs on thursday are settled. See the list of qualified riders for the final and the results for non qualified riders.
Stay tuned for the big final in the Scandinavian Big Mountain Championships on thursday...!
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10-05-18
TODAY´S QUALIFICATION RUN WAS CANCELLED
After a day of waiting for weather improvements the scheduled qualification on Tuesday was cancelled. The weather forecast for Wednesday looks good.
Tomorrow´s schedule:
Wednesday May 19
08.45 Weather update
09.00 Lift open
09.30-10.15 Course check qualification run
10.30 Start Qualification
16.00 Après Ski
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10-05-17
STARTLIST QUALIFICATION RUN - TUESDAY MAY 18
See the startlist (PDF)
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