Triple World Cup gold medallist Belle Brockhoff is back on her snowboard at Mt Buller doing what she loves best after her awaited return-to-snow came to fruition today.
The Subaru NSW State Interschools Championships were held at Perisher last week with five from six days held under blue sunny skies with next to no wind making for fun and fast courses for the students.
The world’s best freeskiers were in action at Cardrona Alpine Resort for the World Cup slopestyle of the Audi quattro Winter Games NZ, including Aussies Russ Henshaw and Ryley Lucas.
Perisher will be rolling out the red carpet this week, so to speak, as the royalty of skiing head our way for the Australian Moguls Championship, 29-30 August 2017.
Sochi Olympians Sami Kennedy-Sim and Alex ’Chumpy’ Pullin both secured double victories in pristine conditions at the Australian NZ Cup events at Mt Hotham over the weekend.
This September, Cardrona Alpine Resort will see a not-to-be-missed spectacle with the NZ Winter Games taking place at the resort from 25 August to 10 September.
Falls Creek will be a winter wonderland of cross country ski action on Saturday 26 August 2017, when the ski world comes together for the southern hemisphere’s largest annual snowsports event, the 27th Kangaroo Hoppet.
As a lone Australian woman on the Snowboard Slopestyle circuit last year, Jindabyne’s Jessica Rich was her own coach, wax technician and organiser, and came away with a ninth place at the World Cup in Quebec.
A new 20-year agreement to better support aerial skiing athletes has been announced at Mt Buller, making the alpine village an official Olympic Training Centre and Victoria’s home for the development of future Olympic and World Champions in Aerial and Mogul Skiing.
Barbara Jezersek and Phil Bellingham have dominated the second half of the Cross Country Skiing Australian National Championships after they topped the podium on both days of the event, winning the Classic Sprint on Saturday and the 10/15km Freestyle races on Sunday.
The final races of the snowboard cross Australian NZ Cup get underway at Mt Hotham this week as a sequel to the preliminary races that set the tone for the season last month.
The fastest of the fastest alpine skiers from around the world will hit the long and very steep World Cup race course located high on the hill in Thredbo to carve their way from top to bottom in a show of strength, agility and speed for the next four days of the ANCs.
The largest school snowsports event in the World gets underway next week at Mt Buller with the 60th Victorian Interschools Snowsports Championships 21-27 August 2017.