Keir Dillon

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Keir Dillon (born June 1, 1977) is a professional snowboarder specializing in Halfpipe.

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Career

Dillon has been a competitive snowboarder since 1997; his current home mountain is Ponto Beach, California but originally, he grew up riding the east coast of Pennsylvania and New York. He has accumulated two bronze medals at the Winter X Games, took back-to-back gold at the World Superpipe championships in 04/05, and has secured second and third place at the United States Open. He missed the 2006 season with a torn labrum in his left shoulder.

Dillon is a member of the Frends Crew (spelled without the "i" to emphasize the collective nature of the group) made up of snowboarders Mason Aguirre, Kevin Pearce, Danny Davis, Scotty Lago, Jack Mitrani and Luke Mitrani. Frends is group of riders who turned their initial friendship into a formal alliance in 2007 to move the sport away from its recent competitive and business focus and return the sport to its grass roots, collegial beginnings. [1]

His sponsors include Amp Beverages and Nike 6.0.

Films

VICTIMS (1994)
VHS produced by Eastern Edge and Apocalypse Snowboards. Featuring Kier Dillion, Ryan Mrachek, Noah Brandon, Seth Neary, Jason King, Todd Richards, and Peter Line. Footage from Killington VT, Mt. Hood, and the US Open at Stratton.
Snow Blind
Behind-the-scenes figures talk about the history and philosophy behind snowboarding, as well as showing off some of their most spectacular moves on the powder. [2]
AU
A Snowboarding Film (2006)
Follow the US Olympic Snowboard team around the world as they compete to qualify for the fast-approaching 2006 Winter Olympics. [3]
For Right or Wrong (2006)
"For Right or Wrong" takes an inside look at what it's like to snowboard for a living and combines action and documentary-style footage about riders' lives on and off the hill. [4]
Stand & Deliver
Pulse

Stunt work

Stolen Good (2002) (stunt performer)
"Stolen Good" traces the lives of three friends whose personal entanglements are almost as unpredictable as the sport they've grown to love, snowboarding. [5]

Competitive achievements

PositionYearEventLocation
2nd2006Nippon Open (Superpipe)Bandai, Japan
3rd2006Chevy Grand Prix 1-20 (Halfpipe)Mountain Creek, New Jersey
1st2005Middle Earth Superpipe (Halfpipe)Snow Park, New Zealand
3rd2005New Zealand Open (Halfpipe)Wanaka, New Zealand
1st2005World Superpipe Championships (Halfpipe)Park City, Utah
3rd2005Grand Prix #3 (Halfpipe)Mountain Creek, New Jersey
3rd2005Vans Cup (Halfpipe)Northstar-at-Tahoe, California
2nd2005European Open (Halfpipe)Laax, Switzerland
3rd2004Middle Earth Superpipe Championships (Halfpipe)Snow Park, New Zealand
3rd2004United States Open (Halfpipe)Stratton, Vermont
1st2004World Superpipe Championships (Halfpipe)Park City, Utah
1st2002United States Grand Prix #1 02/03 (Halfpipe)Park City, Utah
2nd2002Ripzone Invitational (Halfpipe)Blackcomb, BC Canada
2nd2002United States Open (Quarterpipe)Stratton, Vermont
3rd2002United States Open (Halfpipe)Stratton, Vermont
2nd2002Grand Prix #4 (Halfpipe)Breckenridge, Colorado

X-Games

Various competition results/information taken from EXPN [6]

References

  1. ↑ There's No I in Frends NY Times, March 22, 2009
  2. ↑ Amazon.com summary. Retrieved April 13, 2008
  3. ↑ Film History Films from Internet Movie Database. Retrieved April 7th, 2008
  4. ↑ Archived 2007-12-22 at the Wayback Machine Colorado snowboards summary. Retrieved April 13, 2008
  5. ↑ Summary from Netflix.com. Retrieved April 13, 2008
  6. ↑ Kier Dillon Bio EXPN Bio Page. Retrieved April 7, 2008
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