Archive: 2016
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The Cardrona NZ Park & Pipe Team has wrapped up a week of World Cup competition at Copper Mountain resort in the USA with several athletes achieving personal best results and ticking off qualifying criteria for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games.
Snow Sports NZ is delighted to have five nominees for the 54th Halberg Awards - the nation’s pre-eminent event to honour and celebrate sporting achievements by New Zealand teams and athletes in 2016.
2017 Anti-Doping information Snow Sports NZ are committed to the advancement of clean sport that rejects cheating through the use of performance enhancing drugs and methods.
New Zealand ski cross racer Jamie Prebble has achieved a career best result finishing fifth in the World Cup held in Switzerland.
Finn Bilous and brothers Nico and Miguel Porteous competed at Rev Tour in the 22-foot superpipe against a 50-strong field and all made it through to the final 12. Nico finished in fifth place, Miguel sixth and Finn 10th.
A commanding performance on day two of competition has seen Kiwi freeskier Jossi Wells finish fourth overall at the 2016 Dew Tour.
Ski racer Georgia Willinger is celebrating ticking off a career goal after winning gold in the Downhill at the North American Cup held at Lake Louise ski resort in Alberta, Canada.
National ski team members Adam Barwood, Willis Feasey and Piera Hudson have just wrapped up three days of racing at Copper Mountain in the USA.
The return of para snowboarding to the 2017 Audi quattro Winter Games NZ, with the inclusion of a World Cup Banked Slalom at Treble Cone near Wanaka for the first...
The Winter Olympic qualifying period is underway and there are no two ways about it: it’s going to be a tough few months on the road to PyeongChang2018.
A new generation of talented young ski racers is set to compete at top level international events this season with a squad of 10 athletes in the U14 and U16 age categories selected to represent NZ at FIS Youth races in Europe and North America in early 2017.
Competition season has kicked off for NZ athletes in the Northern Hemisphere with Carlos Garcia Knight and Natalie Good competing at the FIS Snowboard Big Air World Cup in Milan, Italy.
Lake Wanaka, New Zealand (13 October 2016) –The Snow Sports NZ Alpine Youth Development Camp funded by the Snowvision Foundation took place in Wanaka from 10-11 October 2016.
The 2016 Cardrona NZ Junior Freeski and Snowboard National Championships took place from 3-8 October. Check out how much fun everyone had competing at Cardrona Alpine Resort!
The 2016 Cardrona NZ Junior Nationals concluded with a prize giving ceremony at the Lake Wanaka Centre on Saturday 10 October.
Lake Wanaka, NZ – (9 October 2016) – The Snow Sports NZ Annual Awards Night were held last night (Saturday 8 October 2016) at the Lake Wanaka Centre.
The 2016 Cardrona NZ Freeski & Snowboard Junior National Championships wrapped up at Cardrona Alpine Resort today with the Salomon Ski Halfpipe, U18 Big Bucks Slopestyle Open and U14 Antlers Alley Slopestyle Open.
Lake Wanaka, NZ (6 October 2016) – 200 hard charging young skiers and snowboarders were in action today at Cardrona Alpine Resort for the fourth day of competition at the...
Competitors in the 2016 Cardrona NZ Junior Freeski & Snowboard Nationals were met with murky conditions for day three of competition at Cardrona Alpine Resort near Wanaka today.
Good morning Junior Nationals competitors! The Ski Halfpipe competition has been postponed for today. The pipe is very wet after last night's rain and not currently safe for competition.