Open Faces 2023 - 1* FWT Qualifier + 2* FWT Junior Alpbachtal - Recap

Three premieres went down in the Open Faces books: Olivia Riedl caused cheers in the snowboard women’s category with two backflips in her competition run and both a double frontflip and a double backflip in men’s categories showed the insane level at this 1* qualifier contest. Snowboard Men Sebastian Kepplinger and Philipp Lanjus ensured an Austrian double victory in the category of snowboard men. Kepplinger showed a self-confident run from start to finish and delivered many jumps. Des...

The 3-Star Qualifier on the legendary Quellspitze attracts every year numerous top-class riders to use the challenging face for the first important points for the qualifier ranking. This year the Quellspitze was especially challenging. Only a few days before the Junior World Championships took place on the face and the cold nights and therefore rather hard conditions really demanded the last reserves of energy from every single rider to reach the finish. With a good choice of lines, however,...

Here are the impressive winning runs of amazing freeriding! After 2 times postponement due to weather conditions, the time had come last weekend. The most important World Tour Qualifier Series in Europe celebrated the start of the 10th season with the 3* FWT Qualifier & 2* FWT Junior competition. In difficult conditions and weather-related delays, the riders showed their absolute class and offered top-class performances with many "3s" and backflips on the Quellspitze in Kappl/Paznaun.

Open Faces Kick Off 3* FWT Qualifier / 2* FWT Junior Kappl / Paznaun planned for 14.01.2023 After the postponement of last week, the Open Faces Kick Off in Kappl / Paznaun for the 10th anniversary should take place next weekend 14 January 2023. With the coming fresh snow would be prepared for the 10th anniversary of an international freeride contest in Kappl.

The Open Faces Freeride Series is back with 4 important World Qualifier stops and own Open Faces Academy Camps for everyone. The grand finale of the World Tour Challenger Contests at the end of the 2023 season will be a Freeride Week with an extensive program and the stars of the freeride scene.

The jury's evaluations are tight, which is evident, in the Ski Women category. Hannah Gruber (ITA), ski instructor and model from Italy, is able to prevail here with 2 safe jumps and a quick pace. Only three tenths separate second and third place. Emma Ledet (DEN) narrowly has to admit defeat to the Austrian Amelie Rosa Deniffel, who starts the race with a great choice of lines and a good dose of self-confidence. It is also close for the Ski Men - only 5 points separate places 1-5. At the...

The FWT Junior World Championship (FWT JWC) is the highlight of the freeride juniors on ski and snowboard. On January 20th to 26th 2023, the annual highlight of the season takes place in Kappl-Paznaun, Austria. In challenging runs, the junior athletes show spectacular jumps and drops in the terrain as well as challenging lines through the deep snow. The future of Freeriding looks to be in safe hands with a continually impressive level of riding from Junior athletes. Despite the challengi...

Michael Mawn (USA) took the win for the second consecutive year with a strong technical line. He threaded the needle at the top of the course, airing into a tight couloir, which threw him out at high speed into the face. He then sent multiple critical airs while maintaining complete control of the board under his feet.