This weekend, Laax in Switzerland will be the venue for the Highline Slackline World Championships 2022. At an altitude of 2252 meters on the Crap Sogn Gion, 31 athletes from all over the world will compete in the categories Speedline and Freestyle. While men and women performed their tricks separately in freestyle, they tried to run their fastest time in speedline. A total of three lines with a length of 65 meters and different tensions are available to the athletes for the freestyle, for th...

This weekend, Laax in Switzerland will be the venue for the Highline Slackline World Championships 2022. At an altitude of 2252 meters on the Crap Sogn Gion, 31 athletes from all over the world will compete in the categories Speedline and Freestyle. While men and women performed their tricks separately in freestyle, they tried to run their fastest time in speedline. A total of three lines with a length of 65 meters and different tensions are available to the athletes for the freestyle, for th...

This weekend, Laax in Switzerland will be the venue for the Highline Slackline World Championships 2022. At an altitude of 2252 meters on the Crap Sogn Gion, 31 athletes from all over the world will compete in the categories Speedline and Freestyle. While men and women performed their tricks separately in freestyle, they tried to run their fastest time in speedline. A total of three lines with a length of 65 meters and different tensions are available to the athletes for the freestyle, for th...

This weekend, Laax in Switzerland will be the venue for the Highline Slackline World Championships 2022. At an altitude of 2252 meters on the Crap Sogn Gion, 31 athletes from all over the world will compete in the categories Speedline and Freestyle. While men and women performed their tricks separately in freestyle, they tried to run their fastest time in speedline. A total of three lines with a length of 65 meters and different tensions are available to the athletes for the freestyle, for th...

This weekend, Laax in Switzerland will be the venue for the Highline Slackline World Championships 2022. At an altitude of 2252 meters on the Crap Sogn Gion, 31 athletes from all over the world will compete in the categories Speedline and Freestyle. While men and women performed their tricks separately in freestyle, they tried to run their fastest time in speedline. A total of three lines with a length of 65 meters and different tensions are available to the athletes for the freestyle, for th...

For the first time ever in the sport of slacklining, a World Championship in highlining takes place at the peak Crap Sogn Gion on the 15.-17. July 2022. The event is organized by swiss-slackline.ch and hosted by Laax, Switzerland. 30 Athletes; about 10 women and 20 males are expected to participate. The athletes compete gender-separated in the discipline Freestyle Highline and together in Speed Highline.

The big event of the last FIS Snowboard World Cup before the Olympic Games took place last weekend in Laax (SUI). At the Crap Sogn Gion, the freestyle snowboarders had best conditions. A truly magical atmosphere after sunset at 2,252 meters above sea level, combined with sensational riding and rapturous fans. In slopestyle the athletes showed their skills on ramps and rails under a bright sunny sky. The absolute highlight of the event was the night finale in the halfpipe under floodlight, whe...

After almost 2 years without freeride contests on Austrian soil, the first Open Faces Series contest, the 3*FWQ & 2*FJT stop in Kappl / Paznaun took place last weekend. The top performances of the riders from 13 nations and the joy of reunion of the so familiar scene contributed to an "epic" re-start of the most important World Qualifier Series in Europe. In fluid runs through the deep snow, the athletes showed daring lines through the terrain paired with spectacular jumps. The Freeride Juni...

The Austrian Vicky Candlin was able to prevail in the women's ski category. Vicky relied on a fluid run and used the rocky terrain of the Quellspitze for many drops and smaller airtimes to win with 55.67 points. The Open Faces Series 2022 demands real skill of the professional freeriders from all over the world who compete in a 1* and a challenging 4* qualifier to thrill their fans. Many international top freeriders in skiing and snowboarding are expected at the Open Faces Freeride Contest...