The snowboard-cross and ski-cross races at Cardrona will be
solid gold highlights of 100% Pure New Zealand Winter Games.
The two events feature some of the strongest fields appearing
at the Games with likely medal winners too close to call.
One of the most exciting winter sports to watch, each heat
features four athletes racing at the same time down a tight,
undulating course. Thrills and spills are assured as racers
speed round banked turns and over jumps to fight for the
inside line.
Snowboard-cross kicks off on Monday 24th August. In the men's
event, top ranked Australians Alex Pullin and Damon Hayler
face Japan national champion Kohichi Itoh and three of
Germany's top four racers including Olympian and current
world number eleven David Speiser. They go head-to-head with
Otago favourite and former world youth champ Phil Dominick
along with some promising Kiwi juniors.
Among the women riders, New Zealand champion Rene Hollis and
former Japan number one Natsuko Doi head a wide-open field.
Ski-cross action hits Cardrona on Thursday 27th August with
exceptionally strong women's and men's fields. Canada's top
five women including world number three Kelsey Serwa, Aleisha
Cline and Ashleigh McIvor take on Japan's top three plus the
number one athletes from Australia and Sweden - Jenny Owens
and Magdalena Iljans who has five Winter X Games medals and
six World Cup victories under her belt.
In the men's event, world number two Chris Del Bosco heads
the field with fellow Canadians Davey Barr and 2009 X-Games
gold medallist Stanley Hayer. They take on former world
champion Hiroomi Takizawa from Japan and the best New Zealand
ski-cross riders Andrew Wylie, Sam Hazeldine, Matt Johnson
and Sam Lee.
A total of thirteen nations are represented across both
action-packed disciplines including Great Britain, Ireland,
Switzerland, Ukraine, Korea and the USA.
100% Pure New Zealand Winter Games will take place at Coronet
Peak, The Remarkables, Cardrona Alpine Resort, Snow Farm,
Naseby and Dunedin from 21-30 August 2009 and will feature
disciplines of alpine skiing, free skiing, x-country skiing,
snowboarding, curling, ice skating and adaptive snow sports
as well as the demonstration sports of winter triathlon and
natural luge.
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