Final countdown on to start of the Park & Pipe World Cup season in Chur
Sep 21, 2023·Snowboard Park & Pipe
There’s now just under one month to go before the first competitions of the 2023/24 FIS Freeski and Snowboard Park & Pipe season get underway, with the Big Air Chur festival set to go down in the capital of Switzerland’s Graubunden region from 20-21 October.
This will be the third instalment of the Big Air Chur World Cup and festival, and in the two short years preceding this season’s event Big Air Chur has already established itself as being one of the absolute highlights of the competition season on any continent.
This year’s Big Air Chur festival is set to feature the wildest musical artists seen so far on the big stage, with the likes of Scooter, Casper, G-Eazy and Nina Chuba all set to drop feature sets of the course of the weekend.
And then, of course, there’s the on-snow action, where the biggest scaffold jump ever to be built on Swiss soil is once again ready to play host to the world’s best big air skiers and snowboarders for two nights of insanity under the lights.
Freeski competition will be headlined by reigning big air World Champion and two-time Chur winner Tess Ledeux (FRA) on the women’s side, while 2022/23 double crystal globe winner and slopestyle World Champion Birk Ruud (NOR) will be looking for more magic in Chur this season as he leads the men on hand into action.
Switzerland’s slopesyle World Champion Mathilde Gremaud, men’s big air World Champion Troy Podmilsak, Kirsty Muir (GBR), and Alex Hall (USA) are just a few of the other names to watch out for on the preliminary entry lists for the freeskiers.
For the snowboarders it’s going to be all eyes on big air World Champion and double Junior World Champion Taiga Hasegawa (JPN) after the 17-year-old became the first snowboarder ever to land all four 1980s last week. With Valentino Guseli (AUS), Dusty Henricksen (USA) and Mark McMorris (CAN) all currently slated to drop in on Chur as well, it’s shaping up to be a heavy one on the men’s side.
Women’s competition, meanwhile, will see last year’s winner Reira Iwabuchi (JPN) facing down the likes of big air World Champion (and two time Olympic gold medallist) Anna Gasser (AUT), Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (NZL), Julia Marino (USA) and many, many more in front of the massive, electric Chur crowd.
We’ll have plenty more to come, but for now set you calendars and get ready, because the Park & Pipe World Cup season is set to start with a bang once again this October in Chur.
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