Category: Freeskiing
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Snow Sports New Zealand and Cardrona Alpine Resort Limited have signed a Partnership Agreement which will see Cardrona become an official resort partner of Snow Sports NZ, the naming rights...
Whistler, Canada –(21 April 2014) – New Zealand’s freeskiing brothers Jossi and Beau-James Wells have ended their northern hemisphere season on a high after competing at the World Skiing Invitational, which...
Snow Sports NZ Freeski Coach Bruce Wells has won the Coach of the Year title at the Central Otago Sports Awards held on Friday 11 April.
7 April 2014 -Freeskiers Finn Bilous and Miguel Porteous have finished off their northern hemisphere season with second and third place finishes in halfpipe at the USASA National Championships at...
Valmalenco, Italy- (3 April 2014) – The 2014 FIS Freeski and Snowboard Junior World Championships is a wrap, the New Zealand team having achieved a podium result in each sport.
Valmalenco, Italy (29 March 2014) - It was another good day in Valmalenco, Italy for the New Zealand freeskiers and snowboarders competing at the Junior World Championships.
Valmalenco, Italy- (30 March 2014) – Beau-James Wells has won the Freeski Halfpipe Junior World Championships in Valmalenco, Italy.
Verbier, Switzerland- (30 March 2014) –With a new coat of 50cm of fresh snow, the mythical Bec des Rosses in Verbier, Switzerland, promised an epic final competition of the Swatch...
Following a challenging season due to difficult snow and weather conditions all over the northern hemisphere, the SWATCH FREERIDE WORLD TOUR BY THE NORTH FACE® (FWT) now heads to Verbier, Switzerland,...
Utah, USA- (5 March 2014) – Skier Sam Smoothy has earned his second podium spot on the 2014 Freeride World Tour, taking out third place at the Snowbird Ski and Summer...
New Zealand’s junior park and pipe athletes are storming through their northern hemisphere season claiming podium spots along the way.
Kappl-Paznaun, Austria - (23 February 2014) – For the second weekend running New Zealand freeskier Neil Williman has claimed a podium position on the Freeride World Qualifier (FWQ) Tour.
Sochi, Russia- (24 February 2014 ) – As the symbolic Olympic torch that has burned for 17 days in the Black Sea resort town of Sochi is extinguished this morning (NZT),...
Sochi, Russia (20 February 2014) - Janina Kuzma was the last of the New Zealand Olympic winter team to begin competition when she took to the halfpipe in Rosa Khutor on...
Janina Kuzma drops in to the Extreme Park halfpipe from 3. 30am tomorrow morning (21 Feb).
Sochi, Russia (19 February 2014) - The men’s freeski halfpipe took place in Sochi on Tuesday night with three New Zealanders amongst the field of 28 competitors striving to earn the...
Axamer Lizum, Austria- (16 February 2014) – A win at the three star Freeride World Qualifier event in Austria, has given New Zealand freeskier Neil Williman a much needed confidence boost...
Kronplatz, Italy- (13 February 2014) – New Zealand ski cross racer Jamie Prebble (Christchurch) has achieved a podium result at the Red Bull Kronplatz Cross in Italy.
Sochi, Russia- (13 February 2014) – The eagerly anticipated men’s freeski slopestyle took place in Sochi tonight with New Zealand’s Jossi Wells making no secret of the fact that he would...
Sochi, Russia- (11 February 2014) –Tonight was the turn of New Zealand skier Anna Willcox-Silfverberg to test her mettle in the new Olympic discipline of freeski slopestyle.