What do you get when you mix the worlds best two wheeled warriors, a massive mountain playground on Whistler mountain and 10,000 passionate spectators….2008 Whistler Crankworx Slopestyle.
For those who are not familiar with the Crankworx festival, it’s a week long gathering of the worlds best mountain bike athletes competing is varies competitions for big prize money. And it so happens that the Slopestyple competition is the main attraction of the festival.
The competition was fierce and in the end Spains Andreu Lacondeguy took home top prize of $15,000. Andreu’s winning run consisted of a long list of impressive tricks, starting with a Double Back Flip of the first table (never seen in competition before), a Foot Plant off the Monster Snake, a Back Flip X-Up, Flat Spin 360, Topside Nac-Nac, Can-Can Step-Down, Superman, and finished off with a Back Flip onto the final Kokanee feature and Superman off into the village.
Second place went to Lance Mcdermott of the UK with a score of 91.5 and third place went to Whistler’s own Brendan Semenuk, with a score of 89.8.
Overall it was an amazing competition and I’ll mark my calendar for Crankworx 2009….you should too!!!
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