Manuela Pesko Crowned Third Annual Roxy Chicken Jam Superpipe Champion
Park City, Utah – The Third Annual Roxy Chicken Jam re-commenced today under sunny skies at Park City Mountain Resort with 21 of the top women’s professional snowboarders taking to the superpipe. On her first trip to Park City Mountain Resort Swiss native, Manuela Pesko, claimed the Third Annual Roxy Chicken Jam superpipe title with the first back-to-back above the lip 720 combination in a women’s North American halfpipe competition.
“All I can say is wow! Today is one of my great victories, especially amongst so many good riders and on one of the best superpipes in the world,” said Manuela. “With the speed I was able to get in the pipe, it made it easy to pull the back-to-back sevens. I haven’t been doing them all winter and today was one of those days I needed to pull out something new.”
Ticket to Ride (TTR) Tour leader and Roxy team-rider Torah Bright (AUS) continued to live up to her reputation as the most technical woman’s superpipe rider, performing huge switch backside 540s and cab 720s. Torah was able to connect multiple maneuvers such as her signature switch backside five – a maneuver that no other halfpipe rider in the world does – securing her an impressive second place finish. Third place finisher and best trick winner, Paulina Ligocka (POL), continued to impress the judges as she consistently opened her runs with very difficult and tricky, frontside 900s
In addition to the one-of-a-kind show on the course, fans and spectators were treated to free Monster Energy drinks, freebies from Zumiez and Paul Mitchell, as well as the chance to try out the latest hardgoods from Roxy, Lib Tech and Bent Metal as part of the “Country Fair” festival.
“We are now in our third year running the Roxy Chicken Jam at Park City Mountain Resort and our first year as a six-star rated TTR contest. We could not be happier with the continued growth of this event – from the level of the athletes competing to the fans and community represented,” said Randy Hild, SVP Global Marketing, Roxy. “This contest truly captures what is happening in women’s snowboarding and we as a brand are proud to be here in support.”
All of today’s action leads up to tomorrow’s TTR World Tour title race. The pressure is on for Bright, currently ranked number one on the Women’s TTR World Tour, to finish strong in the slopestyle event in order to stay on top of the point’s leader board and become the 2006/2007 Women’s TTR World Champion. With less than 80 points between them, Cheryl Maas and Jamie Anderson follow close behind in second and third.
“I just started to do slopestyle again since the Olympics and I love it. I’ve ridden through the course a few times and it is really fun,” said Torah. It's perfect that the Roxy Chicken Jam is the last stop on the TTR Tour because they are crowning guys and girls separately this year and it's fitting that the women’s champion gets crowned at an all girls event.”
The final day of the Third Annual Roxy Chicken Jam starts tomorrow at 10am with the slopestyle main event session followed by the finals and the crowning of the 2006/20007 TTR Women’s World Champion.
The Third Annual Roxy Chicken Jam is happy to have media support from “Transworld Snowboarding,” “CosmoGirl!” and “FUEL TV.” Other sponsors include the Monster Energy, Paul Mitchell, Zumiez, TTR World Snowboard Tour and Park City Mountain Resort.
Results:
1- Manuela Pesko (Sui)
2- Torah Bright (Aus)
3- Paulina Ligocka (Pol)
About Roxy
Roxy is a brand of Quiksilver, Inc. (NYSE:ZQK), the world's leading outdoor sports lifestyle company, which designs, produces and distributes a diversified mix of branded apparel, wintersports and golf equipment, footwear, accessories and related products. The Company's apparel and footwear brands represent a casual lifestyle for young-minded people that connect with its boardriding culture and heritage, while its wintersports and golf brands symbolize a long standing commitment to technical expertise and competitive success on the mountains and on the links.
The reputation of the Company’s brands is based on different outdoor sports. The Company's Quiksilver, Roxy, DC and Hawk brands are synonymous with the heritage and culture of surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding, and its beach and water oriented swimwear brands include Raisins, Radio Fiji and Leilani. The Rossignol, Dynastar, Lange, Look and Kerma brands are leaders in the alpine ski market, and the Company makes snowboarding equipment under its Rossignol, Dynastar, DC Shoes, Roxy, Lib Technologies, Gnu and Bent Metal labels. The Company's golf business includes Cleveland Golf, as well as Never Compromise putters and Fidra apparel. Gotcha is the Company's surf-based European brand addressing street fashion.
The Company's products are sold in over 90 countries in a wide range of distribution, including surf shops, ski shops, skateboard shops, snowboard shops, proprietary Boardriders Club shops, other specialty stores and select department stores. Quiksilver's corporate and Americas' headquarters are in Huntington Beach, California, while its European headquarters are in St. Jean de Luz and St. Jean de Moirans, France, and its Asia/Pacific headquarters are in Torquay, Australia.
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