| 06. 08. October 2006
Etnies European Open
Rome, Italy
Street and Vert
Stadio dei Marmi
All ways are leading to Rome Kilian Heuberger takes first place to Germany!
The Stadio dei Marmi in beautiful Rome was the last stop of the etnies
European Open 2006. With over 20 nationalities competing the stadium enjoyed
for the first time in its lifetime pure skateboarding in street and vert.
Stadio dei Marmi was officially build for the 1960 Olympic games in Rome.
Red Bull has provided the 18m kingsize vert-ramp for the international
vert circus: local hero Giorgio Zattoni showed nice Mc Twists and huge
backside airs, as well as stylish disasters in front of the Italian crowd.
Jussi Korhonen from Finland became third with clean 360 indy grabs, and
backside indy flips 540 flips. Mathias Ringstrom from Sweden showed
excellent heel stalefishes, double varial flips and his perfect frontfoot
impossible. Mathias also won best trick with a kickflip backside 360.
Terrence Bougdour from France won the last stop of this year etnies European
Open with a nice run including rodeos, 540s and fakie 720s, huge kickflip
indys and backside and frontside 540s. But not only that, Terrence also is
overall winner in vert 2006 in Europe!
Friday started with the prequalification in street that was held in a jam
format, three skateboarders skate three minutes long together. Also for the
girls it was time to run a qualification. A new face was Sascha Smirnova
from Moscow, Russia. With a nice frontside boardslide on the small rail she
was a surprise and ended being 5th. Sabrina Goggel from Germany did heelflip
transfers over the small box and backside kickflips in the quarter and got
4th. Also Kristina Westad skating for etnies girl in Norway became 3rd with
a nice backside heelflip over the big hip and a boardslide on the small
rail.
Evelien Bouilliard has the most wonderful style and with a backside
boardslide on the big rail and smooth backside 180s over the hip, she earned
the second place. But nothing could beat the skills of Ianire Elorriaga, who
showed kickflips over the main hip and a frontside tailslide on the big
quarter and therefore won the etnies girls push jam. Ianire is also overall
winner of the girls with her 3rd place in Munich and winning the European
Skateboard Championships in Basel. More about that at
www.skateboardeurope.com
In street the level was never that high on this street course build by
IOU-ramps. Already in the qualification it was clear to see that 11-year old
etnies rider Axel Cruysbergh from Belgium is one of the favourites. He
qualified first with almost skating all three minutes through. One of the
young guns is also 12-year old Theo Derrien from Lyon, France doing perfect
backside lipslides on the big rail, he also won the Junior Champs in Basel
in his age group this year.
Orbited by enormous statues and with more than 5000 spectators in the Stadio
dei Marmi the finals took place. Twelve skateboarders competed in 60-seconds
runs. Helder Lima from Portugal, caught already everybodyıs eye at the
European Skateboard Championships and in the finals he did frontside crooks
over the big rail, frontside flips up the gap and smooth nose grinds on the
big rails and got 9th in the end. Rachid Addou from the Netherlands became
4th with switch 360 flips over the hip, double blind flips over the hip and
frontside smith grinds on the big rail. On the third place landed Maxime
Genin from France with perfect backside smith grinds on the small rail,
kickflip frontside boardslide on the small rail. Second place was dedicated
to Irelandıs finest skateboarder Ross McGouran having a unique flow on this
streetcourse including frontside 360 nosegrabs over the corner hip varial
heelflips over the hip and lots of other interesting transfers. And the
first place went to Kilian Heuberger from Germany doing nollie 270,
hardflips and nice crooked grinds as well as nollie frontside boardslide on
the small rail!
Best trick was nollie kickflip backside nosegrind and it was done by Jo
Lorenz!
Full story soon available a www.skateboardeurope.com
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Many Thanks to WESC, Nixon, Eastpak and Etnies and our media partner Kingpin
und Monster Skateboard Magazine and YOZ who made this last stop of etnies
European Open in Rome, Italy possible.
All pictures by Eric Antoine İ Sole Technology Europe
For further information and picture request, please do not hesitate to
contact monika.bocian@skateboardeurope.com
About etnies:
Established in 1986, etnies is the first skateboarder-owned and operated
global action sports footwear and apparel company. etnies not only pushed
the envelope by creating the first pro model skate shoe, but it pioneered
technological advances and changed the face of skateboard footwear forever.
Today etniesı vision is to remain the leading action sports company
committed to creating functional products that provide the most style,
comfort, durability and protection possible. etnies stays true to its roots
by sponsoring a world class team of skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding,
moto-x and BMX athletes and continues its dedication by giving back to each
of these communities. For additional information, visit www.etnies.com.
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