Freeride World Tour | |
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Genre | Freeride skiing and snowboarding |
Location(s) | Europe; occasionally in North America and Asia |
Inaugurated | 1996 (snowboard only) 2004 (ski and snowboard) |
Founder | Nicolas Hale-Woods |
Current champions | Valentin Rainer (ski men) Ludovic Guillot-Diat (snowboard men) Justine Dufour-Lapointe (ski women) Katie Anderson (snowboard women) |
Organised by | International Ski Federation (FIS) |
Sponsors | Peak Performance |
Website | www |
The Freeride World Tour, also referred to as the FWT Pro or simply the FWT, is an annual series of events in which freeride skiers and snowboarders compete for individual event wins, as well as the overall title of Freeride World Champion in their respective genders and disciplines. The events take place on off-piste terrain – ungroomed snow on steep slopes, often featuring areas of high exposure.
The Freeride World Tour was founded in 1996 as the Verbier Extreme, and was a snowboard only contest until 2004. The first event series under the Freeride World Tour name took place in 2008. 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 global championship series. [1]
A separate class of FWT Qualifier competitions provides the Tour with new rookies each season, with a small number of athletes from each division and region being selected to compete in FWT Challenger events. The top finishers after each Challenger circuit are invited to join the following season's Freeride World Tour. [2] Limited wild card spots have historically been offered to established riders. [3]
The FWT Junior circuit has had many competitions all over the world, as well as an invite-only FWT Junior World Championships held annually since 2012.
The International Ski and Snowboard Federation bought the Freeride World Tour in 2022. [4]
Location | Dates | Event Winners | |||
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Ski Men | Snowboard Men | Ski Women | Snowboard Women | ||
Baquiera Beret [5] | Jan 27 - Feb 1 | Max Palm | Michael Mawn | Addison Rafford | Katie Anderson |
Ordino Arcalís [6] | Feb 1 | Valentin Rainer | Ludovic Guillot-Diat | Justine Dufour-Lapointe | Katie Anderson |
Kicking Horse [7] | Feb 16 - 21 | Max Hitzig | Liam Rivera | Megane Betend | Michaela Davis-Meehan |
Fieberbrunn [8] | Mar 10 - 16 | Andrew Pollard | Jonathan Penfield | Justine Dufour-Lapointe | Katie Anderson |
Verbier | Cancelled due to unsafe snow conditions [9] |
Final Rankings [10] | ||||
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Place | Ski Men | Snowboard Men | Ski Women | Snowboard Women |
1st | Valentin Rainer | Ludovic Guillot-Diat | Justine Dufour-Lapointe | Katie Anderson |
2nd | Maxime Chabloz | Jonathan Penfield | Molly Armanino | Anna Orlova |
3rd | Andrew Pollard | Liam Rivera | Megane Betend | Estelle Rizzolio |
Location | Dates | Event Winners | |||
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Ski Men | Snowboard Men | Ski Women | Snowboard Women | ||
Baqueira Beret [11] | Jan 21 - 27 | Max Palm | Michael Mawn | Olivia McNeill | Erika Vikander |
Ordino Arcalís [12] | Jan 29 - Feb 4 | Maxime Chabloz | Blake Moller | Jessica Hotter | Tiphanie Perrotin |
Kicking Horse [13] | Feb 11 - 16 | Maxime Chabloz | Camille Armand | Lily Bradley | Erika Vikander |
Fieberbrunn [14] | Mar 13 - 19 | Carl Regnér Eriksson | Blake Moller | Jessica Hotter | Tiphanie Perrotin |
Verbier [15] | Mar 25 - Apr 2 | Maxime Chabloz | Blake Moller | Sybille Blanjean | Manuela Mandl |
Final Rankings [16] | ||||
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Place | Ski Men | Snowboard Men | Ski Women | Snowboard Women |
1st | Maxime Chabloz | Blake Moller | Jessica Hotter | Tiphanie Perrotin |
2nd | Carl Regnér Eriksson | Camille Armand | Hedvig Wessel | Erika Vikander |
3rd | Ross Tester | Cody Bramwell | Olivia McNeill | Manuela Mandl |
Location | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 [17] | 2014 [18] | 2015 [19] | 2016 [20] | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
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Chamonix | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||
Courmayeur | X | X | X | |||||||||||
Crested Butte | X | |||||||||||||
Fieberbrunn | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
Haines | X | X | X | |||||||||||
Hakuba | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||
Kicking Horse | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||
Kirkwood | X | X | X | |||||||||||
Mammoth Mountain | X | |||||||||||||
Revelstoke | X | X | X | |||||||||||
Røldal | X | |||||||||||||
Snowbird | X | |||||||||||||
Sochi | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||
Palisades Tahoe | X | X | ||||||||||||
St. Moritz | X | |||||||||||||
Tignes | X | X | ||||||||||||
Ordino Arcalís | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||
Verbier | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Season | Men | Women | ||
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Ski | Snowboard | Ski | Snowboard | |
2008 [21] | Henrik Windstedt | Xavier de Le Rue | Elyse Saugstad | Ruth Leisibach |
2009 [22] | Aurélien Ducroz | Xavier de Le Rue | Ane Enderud | Susan Mol |
2010 [23] | Candide Thovex | Xavier de Le Rue | Ane Enderud | Aline Bock |
2011 [24] | Aurélien Ducroz | Mitch Tölderer | Janette Hargin | Anne-Flore Marxer |
2012 [25] | Reine Barkered | Jonathan Charlet | Christine Hargin | Maria DeBari |
2013 [26] | Drew Tabke | Ralph Backstrom | Nadine Wallner | Élodie Mouthon |
2014 [27] | Loïc Collomb-Patton | Émilien Badoux | Nadine Wallner | Shannan Yates |
2015 [28] | George Rodney | Jonathan Charlet | Eva Walkner | Estelle Balet |
2016 [29] | Loïc Collomb-Patton | Sammy Luebke | Eva Walkner | Estelle Balet |
2017 [30] | Léo Slemett | Sammy Luebke | Lorraine Huber | Marion Haerty |
2018 | Kristofer Turdell | Sammy Luebke | Arianna Tricomi | Manuela Mandl |
2019 | Markus Eder | Victor de Le Rue | Arianna Tricomi | Marion Haerty |
2020 | Isaac Freeland | Nils Mindnich | Arianna Tricomi | Marion Haerty |
2021 | Kristofer Turdell | Victor De Le Rue | Elisabeth Gerritzen | Marion Haerty |
2022 [31] | Maxime Chabloz | Blake Moller | Jess Hotter | Tiphanie Perrotin |
2023 [32] | Valentin Rainer | Ludovic Guillot-Diat | Justine Dufour-Lapointe | Katie Anderson |
Nation | Champions |
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France | 21 |
United States | 12 |
Austria | 8 |
Sweden | 6 |
Switzerland | 5 |
Italy | 4 |
Canada | 2 |
Norway | 2 |
Germany | 1 |
New Zealand | 1 |
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