Freeride World Tour
The Freeride World Tour is an annually toured series of events in which the best freeskiers and snowboard freeriders compete for individual event wins, as well as the overall title of World Champion in their respective genders and disciplines. The events take place on what's commonly referred to as "backcountry", "big mountain" or "extreme" terrain - essentially ungroomed powder snow on dangerously steep, mountainous slopes.
The first event series under the Freeride World Tour moniker took place in 2008. Prior to that it was known as the Verbier Extreme, originally a snowboard only contest launched in 1996 - with skiers also invited to compete in 2004. For the 2013 season, the Freeride World Tour merged with the Freeskiing World Tour and The North Face Masters of Snowboarding, combining all three tours under one unified global 5-star championship series.
World tour locations[]
Main events[]
| FWT events | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013[1] | 2014[2] | 2015[3] | 2016[4] | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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Chamonix 
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• | • | • | 26/1 | 25/1 | 24/1 | 6/2 | • | ||||
Courmayeur 
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• | 19/1 | 18/1 | |||||||||
Crested Butte 
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Big Mountain Fieberbrunn 
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• | • | • | 9/3 | 1/2 | 31/1 | 6/3 | • | • | • | ||
| Haines, Alaska
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14/3 | 17/3 | • | |||||||||
Hakuba 
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Kicking Horse, Golden, BC 
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| North Face Masters Kirkwood
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• | 27/2 | 1/3 | |||||||||
| Mammoth Challenge
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| Revelstoke
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• | 7/1 | 18/12 | |||||||||
Røldal Freeride Challenge 
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| North Face Masters Snowbird
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Russian Adventure Sochi 
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| Tramface Squaw Valley
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Nissan Freeride St. Moritz 
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| Nissan Freeride Tignes
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Swatch Freeride Vallnord 
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14/2 | 23/1 | • | • | • | |||||||
| Xtreme Verbier
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• | • | • | • | • | 26/3 | 22/3 | 28/3 | 2/4 | • | • | • |
Freeride World Tour Qualifiers[]
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2010
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2011
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2012
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2013
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2015
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2016 [5]
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World tour winners[]
| Year | Men | Women | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ski | Snowboard | Ski | Snowboard | |||||
| 2008[6] | Henrik Windstedt |  Sweden |
Xavier de Le Rue | France |
Elyse Saugstad | United States |
Ruth Leisibach | Switzerland
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| 2009[7] | Aurélien Ducroz | France |
Xavier de Le Rue | France |
Ane Enderud | Norway |
Susan Mol | United States
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| 2010[8] | Candide Thovex | France |
Xavier de Le Rue | France |
Ane Enderud | Norway |
Aline Bock |  Germany
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| 2011[9] | Aurélien Ducroz | France |
Mitch Tölderer | Austria |
Janette Hargin | Sweden |
Anne-Flore Marxer | France
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| 2012[10] | Reine Barkered | Sweden |
Jonathan Charlet | France |
Christine Hargin | Sweden |
Maria DeBari | United States
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| 2013[11] | Drew Tabke | United States |
Ralph Backstrom | United States |
Nadine Wallner | Austria |
Élodie Mouthon | France
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| 2014[12] | Loïc Collomb-Patton | France |
Émilien Badoux | Switzerland |
Nadine Wallner | Austria |
Shannan Yates | United States
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| 2015[13] | George Rodney | United States |
Jonathan Charlet | France |
Eva Walkner | Austria |
Estelle Balet | Switzerland
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| 2016[14] | Loïc Collomb-Patton | France |
Sammy Luebke | United States |
Eva Walkner | Austria |
Estelle Balet | Switzerland
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| 2017[15] | Léo Slemett | France |
Sammy Luebke | United States |
Lorraine Huber | Austria |
Marion Haerty | France
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| 2018 | Kristofer Turdell | Sweden
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Sammy Luebke | United States
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Arianna Tricomi | Italy
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Manuela Mandl | Austria
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| 2019 | Markus Eder | Italy
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France
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Arianna Tricomi | Italy
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Marion Haerty | France
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| 2020 | Isaac Freeland | United States
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United States
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Arianna Tricomi | Italy
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Marion Haerty | France
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| 2021 | Kristofer Turdell | Sweden
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France
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Elisabeth Gerritzen | Switzerland
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Marion Haerty | France
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| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | France | 17 | 4 | 6 | 27 |
| 2 | United States | 12 | 6 | 13 | 31 |
| 3 | Austria | 7 | 5 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | Sweden | 5 | 4 | 2 | 11 |
| 5 | Switzerland | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| 6 | Italy | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| 7 | Norway | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 8 | Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 |  Australia | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Canada | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 11 | Russia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 |  Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (12 nations) | 52 | 32 | 31 | 115 | |
- After ,Freeride World Tour 2020
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-11-21. Retrieved 2013-04-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-06-10. Retrieved 2013-06-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-10-27. Retrieved 2014-10-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-10-29. Retrieved 2015-11-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Freeride World Qualifier 2016
- ^ "Rankings - Freeride World Tour 2008" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-02-16. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
- ^ "Rankings - Freeride World Tour 2009". Archived from the original on 2010-02-13. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
- ^ "Rankings - Freeride World Tour 2010". Archived from the original on 2010-02-08. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
- ^ "Rankings - Freeride World Tour 2011". Archived from the original on 2012-04-23. Retrieved 2012-06-26.
- ^ "Rankings - Freeride World Tour 2012". Archived from the original on 2012-07-04. Retrieved 2012-06-26.
- ^ Rankings - Freeride World Tour 2013 Archived 2014-01-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Rankings - Freeride World Tour 2014". Archived from the original on 2014-08-24. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
- ^ Rankings - Freeride World Tour 2015
- ^ Rankings - Freeride World Tour 2016
- ^ Rankings - Freeride World Tour 2017
External links[]
Categories:
- Snowboarding competitions
- Sports competition series
- Recurring sporting events established in 2008
- Skiing world competitions