(Sat, April 8, 2000; bh) After yesterday’s Alpine finals, tonight the Halfpipe finals were held at the Jakobshorn in Davos/SUI. A huge crowd of approximately 5000 spectators, a huge Halfpipe and world’s best riders were doing a simply great show ending with the awards for the Worldchampions and fireworks.

The Motorola ISF World Champions 2000 in Halfpipe are: Ross Powers (USA/Burton) and Stine Brun-Kjeldaas (NOR/Duotone) The contest was very exciting and the starting field the ‘Who is Who’ in Pipe riding performing on an almost incredible level. The huge pipe allowed
the riders to go extremely high AND technical. ‘Simply Pipe-riding at its best’ as vice Champion Therry Brunner stated right after competition.

At the men’s contest tonight the decision was very tight between Markus Hurme (FIN/Oxygen) and Ross Powers (USA/Burton) where the points earned overall were exactly the same. The decision came down to the points given by the ‘Overall Impression’ Judge who had Hurme ranked higher. So only 1,4 points balanced differently were missing for Powers, who otherwise would have won the event in addition to the title. Third came (new vice World Champion) Therry Brunner (SUI/Sims), who also could crown his successful season with an event-podium place.

At the women’s it was a perfect scenario: Stine Brun Kjeldaas today was two times on the highest step of the podium, first for winning the event, then for winning the tour and so being the new World Champion. Swissgirl Martina Tscharner (K2), ISF World Champion 1999, came second tonight, but had too less points from previous competitions to get better than 4th in the
Championship. Third tonight and vice-world Champion was US Girl Kim Stacey(USA/V¸lkl).

[Results Halfpipe Women] Rnk Bib Code Surname FirstName Nat Sponsor ISFPnts
PMPnts
1 1 4250003 BRUN KJELDAAS Stine NOR DUOTONE 424.66
7695
2 7 5150108 TSCHARNER Martina SUI K2WESTB 413.35
4607
3 3 5350174 STACEY Kim USA VOLKL 407.23
2801
4 9 5150319 REUTELER Fabienne SUI SALOMON 401.58
1745
5 5 1850002 HESSO Minna FIN SALOMON 396.32
1128
6 4 1850006 JARVELA Satu FIN ALLIAN 391.37
767
7 11 5150138 ROTH Daniela SUI SIMS 386.67
556
8 12 1850048 RAUTAVA Kirsi FIN DUOTONE 382.21
433
9 16 5150027 GLAUS Ariane SUI OXYGEN 377.94
361
10 18 5150083 PESKO Manuela SUI BURTON 373.84
319
11 8 4250021 THORESEN Christel NOR BURTON 369.89
294
12 14 550325 EHRENSTRASSER Caroline AUT BURTON 366.09
280
13 6 4250056 OESTGAARD BUAAS Kjersti NOR BURTON 362.40
0
14 2 1050090 ZUREK Natasza CAN BURTON 358.83
0
15 19 5150293 MARBACH Miriam SUI OVOMALTIN 355.35
0
16 15 2950029 MASOLINI Romina ITA BURTON 351.98
0
17 22 5150200 COMBELLES Aude SUI NORTHWAVE 348.69
0
18 17 5150023 ROHRER Joelle SUI NITRO 331.76
0
19 13 5150155 QUIRICI Lisa SUI BURTON 320.12
0
20 20 3050099 YANAGISAWA Keiko JPN SALOMON 301.83
0
21 21 4050014 MENTEL Bibian NED DUOTONE 297.73
0
22 10 5352149 NIEVES Catherine USA BURTON 221.23
0

[Results Halfpipe Men] Rnk Bib Code Surname FirstName Nat Sponsor ISFPnts
PMPnts
1 12 1800053 HURME Markus FIN OXYGEN 395.74
9794
2 1 5300449 POWERS Ross USA BURTON 380.45
6996
3 2 5100763 BRUNNER Therry SUI SIMS 373.20
5255
4 5 5100086 SIMMEN Gian SUI BLUE WIN 366.58
3965
5 3 1001248 MORISSET Guillaume CAN — 360.46
3009
6 14 5100323 HITZ Marcel SUI FANATIC 354.73
2300
7 7 4200025 FRANCK Daniel NOR SALOMON 349.33
1775
8 20 500018 PLOETZENEDER Max AUT QUIKSILVE 344.20
1385
9 38 5100087 SAPPA Daniel SUI RADAIR 339.32
1097
10 4 4200252 ARVESEN Espen NOR BURTON 334.64
883
11 31 4300150 SASIADEK Marek POL BURTON 330.15
725
12 11 2000805 MICHAELIS Jan GER BURTON 325.82
607
13 8 5100300 COSTANDACHE Dani SUI NITRO 321.64
520
14 24 5100878 MUELLER Nicolas SUI BURTON 317.59
455
15 26 4200258 ODDEN Jon NOR NITRO 313.66
408
16 27 2001045 WEBER Christoph GER SALOMON 309.84
372
17 33 2900604 KRATTER Giacomo ITA NITRO 306.13
346
18 13 4200037 VANGEN Klas NOR NIKE 302.50
326
19 17 4900010 FERNANDEZ Iker SPA BURTON 298.97
312
20 19 4200031 CHRISTIANSEN Kim NOR ELAN QUIK 295.52
301
21 42 2000849 SCHMALTZ Alexander GER VOELKL 292.14
293
22 39 5100380 SCHWAB Marco SUI NITRO 288.83
287
23 37 2000151 BENEDEK David GER SALOMON 285.59
283
24 32 3000107 N.A. Goripon JPN BURTON 282.42
280
25 16 1800247 SORSA Heikki FIN BURTON 279.30
0
26 21 4200149 HARSTAD Thomas NOR DUOTONE 276.24
0
27 36 5300031 SCOTT Jimi USA NIKE 273.23
0
28 25 5302022 PETRASKA Adam USA BURTON 270.27
0
29 29 5100379 SCHWAB Roman SUI OVOMALTIN 267.36
0
30 40 5100587 BAUMANN Daniel SUI NITRO 264.50
0
31 18 5100311 FURGER Franco SUI PALMER 261.68
0
32 34 5100627 WYDEN Thomas SUI FANATIC 258.90
0
33 9 2000328 TYRKAS Daniel GER G & S 256.17
0
34 41 5101344 KELLER Markus SUI OVOMALTIN 254.46
0
35 35 3000278 SUTO Katsura JPN SALOMON 245.75
0
36 10 500321 KOEFFLER Joachim AUT DUOTONE 243.99
0
37 30 1800136 ERATULI Jukka FIN AIRWALK 235.03
0
38 22 1800191 TUORINIEMI Sami FIN ROSSIGNOL 157.31
0
39 28 5100534 IMHOF Pascal SUI ROSSIGNOL 62.98
0
40 23 500276 ALIBABIC Sani AUT BURTON 0.01
0
6 2000106 HOFFMANN Xaver GER BURTON DNS
15 4200009 SOMMER Marius NOR K2 DNS

Motorola ISF World Championships 1999/2000 – Halfpipe Women:
1 BRUN KJELDAAS Stine NOR DUOTONE
2 STACEY Kim USA VOELKL
3 ZUREK Natasza CAN —

Motorola ISF World Championships 1999/2000 – Halfpipe Men:
1 POWERS Ross USA BURTON 49373.0
2 BRUNNER Therry SUI SIMS 27608.0
3 MORISSET Guillaume CAN — 24687.0

The Motorola ISF World Pro Tour Finals are continuing with Boardercross in
Laax/SUI. More under http://www.laax.ch

Cybercasting of the event can be found under http://www.snowboarddavos.ch .
Check out http://www.isf.net for ISF information of all kinds and
http://www.snowboardranking.com/isf.html for this weeks Motorola ISF World
Pro Tour leaders, official and un-official ranking lists, and the official
results.