Seniors Pipe Qualifiers Completed At Burton European Open
Conditions look like winter now, which is nice. It was clearer at the top and the pipe was perfect. Photo AR
Well, what to say about today? The weather finally kinda cleared up this morning and the cloud and fog were thankfully absent from the pipe, so obviously all the photographers were virtually circle jerking at the possibility of bagging some shots with a bit of blue sky in. They must have got a bunch, too, as there was some semi-inducing riding from a fair few folk, both known and unknown, for them to snap at. Like big, hungry black-clad crocodiles.
Junior senior Eisuke Sugiura was hooning it again and made the cut for tomorrow’s semis. Photo Burton
Rather than try to crib the highlights out of the 200 or so shreds, we’ll just leave it at that for today as tomorrow’s when things get interesting. Nothing to do with slacking off and sneaking a few powder turns, honest…
Miikka Hast. Photo Burton
Qualified Riders by Heat
Men Session 1 Heat 1
- - Mitchell Brown NZE
- - Xaver Hoffmann GER
- - Olivier Gittler FRA
- - Martin Cernik CZE
- - Thomas Ruegg SUI
- - Henning Marthinsen NOR
- - Davide Buvoli SUI
Men Session 1 Heat 2
- - Sergio Berger SUI
- - Markus Malin FIN
- - Dolf Van der Wal NED
- - Ben Kilner GBR
- - Stephan Maurer SUI
- - Dan Wakeham GBR
- - Therry Brunner SUI
- - Gianluca Buvoli SUI
Sara Conrad was doing the business in the women’s heats. Photo AR
Men Session 2 Heat 1
- - Crispin Lipscomb CAN
- - Kim-Rune Hansen NOR
- - Tore Holvik NOR
- - Eisuke Sugiura JPN
- - Dani Costandache SUI
- - Philipp Strauss GER
- - Valerian Ducourtil FRA
- - Stefano Munari ITA
Men Session 2 Heat 2
- - Roger Kleivdal NOR
- - Daniel Friberg SUI
- - Andrew Burton AUS
- - Miikka Hast FIN
- - Rolf Feldmann SUI
- - Jah Daniel Harris NZE
- - Gian-Luca Cavigelli SUI
- - Sam Cullum GBR
Holly Crawford and blue sky at last. Photographers, get your wangers out. Photo AR
Women Session 1
- - Sarah Conrad CAN
- - Anne Sophie Pellisssier FRA
- - Andrea Schuler SUI
- - Anna Barbla Carl SUI
- - Akiko Miwa JPN
- - Conny Bleicher GER
- - Emilie Aubry SUI
- - Thea Stenshagen NOR
Women Session 2
- - Mirabelle Thovex FRA
- - Kendall Brown NZE
- - Holly Crawford AUS
- - Lisa Wiik NOR
- - Helene Nadig SUI
- - Meri Peltonen FIN
- - Nadja Purtschert SUI
- - Rita Comi ITA
Akiko Miwa. Photo AR
We’ll find out tomorrow who’ll be still in there for Saturday’s pipe final. That shit’s gonna be live on TV in some places and they’re also doing a cyberwebnetcast thingy live too. More details on www.burtoneuropeanopen.com. Ain’t the internet great?
