KREISCHBERG, Austria (Jan. 23, 2015) - On the final day of 2015 FIS Snowboard World Championships, Kyle Mack (Bloomington, MI) added a second bronze medal to his collection, this time for big air. Mack, who also earned bronze in slopestyle snowboarding, landed a frontside 1260 tail and backside 1260 Japan for a combined score of 163.50 behind Canadian Darcy Sharpe in second and winner, Finnish rider Roope Tonteri, who claimed his third world title.
Seventeen year old Mack, who has already stacked up a ton of competition experience, narrowly missing the 2014 Olympic slopestyle team, is calmly focused on the season ahead.
“This contest was just a confidence booster for me and going to the next contest hopefully I can just keep podiuming.” stated Mack, “I was planning on doing a couple of tricks I did in my {slope} run and maybe just adding a bit more style to it and I did that and stomped them and ended up getting bronze.”
Big air snowboarding is under consideration as a new event for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Kyle Mack won his second medal of the week, taking bronze in big air snowboarding, an event being considered for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games.
- U.S. Snowboarding athletes won five medals in the World Championships with Mack picking up two bronze.
- No American women made the finals, with World Cup winner Ty Walker failing to qualify.
QUOTES
Kyle Mack, Bronze Medalist, Big Air
I was planning on doing a couple of tricks I did in my {slope} run and maybe just adding a bit more style to it and I did that and stomped them and ended up getting bronze.
This contest was just a confidence booster for me and going to the next contest hopefully I can just keep podium-ing.
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