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FIS makes first visit to Park City for 2019 World Championships
At the FIS Congress in Barcelona in June, Park City (USA) was awarded the 2019 Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships. Three months later the FIS Race Directors visited for the first official Technical Inspection.
“As we are learning with the preparations for the upcoming World Championships in Kreischberg, hosting a combined Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships is a major undertaking and takes a strong commitment from the Organisers,” said FIS Freestyle Skiing Coordinator Joe Fitzgerald. “With USSA and the ski resorts in Utah, we have a great combination as the commitment and interest in America for our disciplines is huge. Together with the excellent organisational skills and infrastructure of the host resorts, I expect 2019 to be a great event.”
The World Championships will be a partnership of three resorts – Canyons Resort, Deer Valley Resort, Park City Mountain Resort – in an event that will feature 24 medal events over 10 days in February, 2019.
The World Championships will bring together the traditional Freestyle Skiing events of moguls and aerials (Deer Valley) with halfpipe, slopestyle and big air skiing and snowboarding (Park City) plus ski cross and snowboard cross (Canyons).
Also on the agenda while the FIS Race Directors were in America was a visit to Squaw Valley, where it was announced that the resort will host a combined ski and snowboard cross World Cup from 4th-8th March 2015. It will be the first time since 1969 that Squaw Valley has hosted a FIS World Cup event.
Snowboard Race Director Uwe Beier said of the combined tour event, “Squaw Valley is a first time World Cup host for Snowboarding and Freestyle Skiing and the home arena of one of the most famous and successful SBX snowboarders, Nate Holland. It will also mark the comeback of the successful combined ski and snowboard cross events to America for the first time in two years.”
Source: the official FIS site
“As we are learning with the preparations for the upcoming World Championships in Kreischberg, hosting a combined Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships is a major undertaking and takes a strong commitment from the Organisers,” said FIS Freestyle Skiing Coordinator Joe Fitzgerald. “With USSA and the ski resorts in Utah, we have a great combination as the commitment and interest in America for our disciplines is huge. Together with the excellent organisational skills and infrastructure of the host resorts, I expect 2019 to be a great event.”
The World Championships will be a partnership of three resorts – Canyons Resort, Deer Valley Resort, Park City Mountain Resort – in an event that will feature 24 medal events over 10 days in February, 2019.
The World Championships will bring together the traditional Freestyle Skiing events of moguls and aerials (Deer Valley) with halfpipe, slopestyle and big air skiing and snowboarding (Park City) plus ski cross and snowboard cross (Canyons).
Also on the agenda while the FIS Race Directors were in America was a visit to Squaw Valley, where it was announced that the resort will host a combined ski and snowboard cross World Cup from 4th-8th March 2015. It will be the first time since 1969 that Squaw Valley has hosted a FIS World Cup event.
Snowboard Race Director Uwe Beier said of the combined tour event, “Squaw Valley is a first time World Cup host for Snowboarding and Freestyle Skiing and the home arena of one of the most famous and successful SBX snowboarders, Nate Holland. It will also mark the comeback of the successful combined ski and snowboard cross events to America for the first time in two years.”
Source: the official FIS site
