Big air World Cup action coming to Tignes for first time ever in 2023/24
Sep 12, 2023·Freeski Park & Pipe
Just two seasons after the venue returned to the World Cup calendar as a highlight stop for FIS Freeski competition, France’s legendary Tignes resort will be expanding their event footprint in 2023/24 to include not just slopestyle, but also big air competition at the Mountain Shaker weekend, ensuring an even more epic experience going down from 13-16 March, 2024.
Tignes’ history as a World Cup venue is perhaps the most storied in FIS Freestyle history, with the resort playing host to competition dating all the way back to the very first FIS Freestyle World Cup season in 1979/80.
In total, Tignes has hosted 179 FIS Freestyle or Freeski World Cup competitions in that 43 year span - though this season will mark the first time ever that the resort will host big air World Cup action.
Tignes first became a FIS Freeski venue in 2014/15, kicking off four straight seasons of highly memorable halfpipe competitions, where the combination of a nighttime event at the base of the resort and the rabid French fans cheering on standout performances from skiers such as Kevin Rolland and Marie Martinod made for one of the best competition atmospheres in the world.
Tignes then returned to the FIS Freeski circuit in 2021/22 with what was supposed to be its first-ever slopestyle World Cup, though that event was unfortunately cancelled due to weather conditions. Last season, however, the full slopestyle programme was completed, and it was an exceptional one indeed.
The addition of big air to this season’s Tignes FIS Freeski Mountain Shaker World Cup programme will no doubt recreate that outstanding atmosphere we witnessed during those nighttime halfpipe finals of a few years ago, as once again the competition will take place at night, within walking distance of the Val Claret upper village portion of the resort.
Competition in Tignes this season will kick off on 13 March with big air qualifications, followed by slopestyle qualifications on 14 March, big air finals on the night of Friday, 15 March, and then slopestyle finals wrapping things up on Saturday, 16 March.
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