Snowboarding

Jacobellis and Baumgartner Second In Switzerland

by
USSA
2016-03-06 15:38
 

VEYSONNAZ, Switzerland (March 6, 2016) - The American snowboardcross athletes scored a pair of podium finished at the Veysonnaz World Cup where Lindsey Jacobellis (Stratton Mountain, VT) and Nick Baumgartner (Iron River, MI) both finished second Sunday on a fast and challenging course. 

It was a double event, with the first race held on Saturday. Jacobellis was happy with her podium on Sunday after finishing seventh on Saturday. “I'm very happy," she said after the race. “It's getting more and more difficult to make big finals every time. It's really amazing to see the level of women's riding and how it grows since I started in this sport 14 years ago. It's a great feeling to make the big finals. It's a challenge every time.” 

Lindsey Jacobellis rides to the podium in Veysonnaz.

The course in Veysonnaz is known for being fast and aggressive, and Baumgartner fell victim to one of the worst crashes of the week on Saturday, where he finished ninth. He was back to form for Sunday’s race. “I won the first two heats and then I went to the semi finals,” he said. “I was in fifth pretty deep in the back and rocketed up through and passed up to third to make it through the semi-finals … these are the fun ones, when everything goes wrong and then you can make up the distance.”

Race #1:
Alex Deibold (Boulder, CO), 8th; Mick Dierdorff (Steamboat Springs, CO), 11th; Faye Gulini (Salt Lake City, UT), 13th; Megan Tierney (Edwards, CO), 24th; Nate Holland (Squaw Valley, CA), 13th; Hagan Kearney (Telluride, CO), 28th; Jonathan Cheever (Saugus, MA), 34th; Seth Wescott (Sugarloaf, ME), 52nd.

Race #2: 
Faye Gulini (Salt Lake City, UT), 11th; Mick Dierdorff (Steamboat Springs, CO), 17th; Megan Tierney (Edwards, CO), 19th; Seth Wescott (Sugarloaf, ME), 28th; Hagan Kearney (Telluride, CO), 37th; Nate Holland (Squaw Valley, CA), 38th; Alex Deibold (Boulder, CO), 57th.

Nick Baumgartner took second Sunday.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Lindsey Jacobellis finished second for the women.
  • Nick Baumgartner finished second for the men.   

QUOTES

Lindsey Jacobellis
I'm very happy. It's getting more and more difficult to make big finals every time. It's really amazing to see the level of women's riding and how it grows since I started in this sport fourteen years ago. It's a great feeling to make the big finals. It's a challenge every time.

Nick Buamgartner
Today was awesome. We had a blast, it started off interesting. The course was gnarly, every year there is one turn that everyone gets pinched in.

I won the first two heats and then I went to the semi finals, I was in fifth pretty deep in the back and rocketed up through and passed up to third to make it through the semi-finals…these are the fun ones, when everything goes wrong and then you can make up the distance.

In the final heat, I didn’t get the best start but by the end of the straightway I was in first and leading into turn three but in that final turn a lot of things happened. I had two options and went I chose to stay up high and one guy passed me but I almost had him in the end. 

Sometimes being old and experienced pays off - you can’t put a price on that experience.

That’s the beautiful thing that I’ve (raced) so much, and anything can happen. That’s the scary part of the game but that’s why I love it so much and that’s what makes it so exciting—dropping in knowing nothing is going to go as planned.

I put a lot of work in the off-season and it’s paid off; I used to be the last guy out of the gate and now I’m winning some hole shots, and whooping up on some young kids.

Peter Foley, SBX Head Coach
It’s so hard to make it through to the podium these days, everyone is so good, and you a lot has to work out in your favor in addition to killing it and Nick and Lindsey didn’t get any gifts today.

RESULTS 
Men’s Snowbaordcross #1

Women’s Snowboardcross #1
Men’s Snowboardcross #2
Women’s Snowboardcross #2

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