Celebrating the 10th year of this auspicious skateboarding event, tune in on Sunday August 8th for LIVE coverage of the finals of the etnies European Skateboard Championships from Basel, Switzerland.
Timetable (CET):
Girsl street final: 14:00 – 14:30
Miniramp final : 14:30 – 15:30
Street final : 16:00 – 17:00
Best trick street : 17:00 – 17:30
Award Ceremony : 18:00 – 18:30
Back from Val Di Sole. Our team rider Floriane Pugin of the Scott 11 team ended up on the podium with a great 5th place. Her team mate Emilie Siegenthaler is back on speed after her injury and finished the race on 9th place.
And our newest Downhill team addition the Austrian Markus Pekoll came in 9th.
BELOW IS THE OFFICIAL RACE REPORT OF THE SCOTT 11 TEAM:
A rather difficult weekend with little disappointments at the mens race still brought SCOTT11 closer to the top position in the team ranking.
Again, it was Floriane Pugin which was responsible for the collection of the most points for her team. With the fifth place, she added another podium to her palmares and kept SCOTT11 on the second overall spot.
Emilie Siegenthaler is back on speed after her injury and finished the race on 9th place.
Fabien Pedemanaud kept himself in the overall top ten with an almost inhuman effort. His incredible will and several roles of tape around his injured shoulder kept him on the bike on the roughest course of the year. Fabien finished in 28th spot and is now sitting in 10th overall position.
Nick Beer wasn’t able to attack as hard as he wanted to, trying to make sure not to crash again. A 21st spot brought him to the 19th overall.
Nick, Emilie, Floriane and Freddy are now flying to Norway for the European Championships, while Fabien is already on the way home to treat his shoulder for the most important races of the year in Windham (NY) and Mont Sainte Anne, Kanada.
Get an impression of the numerous high class mountain bike tricks like Bienvenido Alba’s front flip from the starting tower step down, as well as Sam Pilgrim’s 360 x-ups and backflip nohanders. The best runs of the Top 3 BIG IN BAVARIA riders are also featured in the highlights clip. Some additional statements of the winners make it the perfect short edit for everybody, who wasn’t able to see the live stream
TSG riders Markus Hampl, Ricardo Laguna and Patrick Guimez gave their best competing at the BIG IN BAVARIA Vol.II BMX dirt jump comp at Munich’s BIKE EXPO trade show. Get an impression of the numerous high class tricks like Markus Hampl’s opposite 360 combos, flipwhips and 360 super seaters.
The best final runs of the Top 3 BIG IN BAVARIA Vol.II riders are completely featured, too. Some additional statements of the winners make it a great short edit for everybody, who wasn’t able to see the live stream. Some sequences of the side program including a hard rocking limo drive and after parties round up the clip.
The European Skateboard Championships 2010 celebrates its 10th anniversary from August 5th –8th in Basel, Switzerland with a redesigned streetcourse and miniramp.
The city of Basel provides the venue and over 300 skateboarders from over 20 nations are on the guest list. Come and join the ESC crew, TSG, etnies, Carhartt, Element, Skullcandy, Zimstern, G-Shock, and Red Bull to celebrate this anniversary.
The youngsters, 16 and under, start off the show with the Street Junior Champs on Thursday afternoon. On Friday we celebrate skateboarding all day long during the street pre-qualification to find the ones who will compete against the European Top 100 on Saturday. This Top 100 list and all relevant information of the ESC is published on www.skateboardeurope.com. Miniramp and street qualifications kick off on saturday. Saturdy night is part time. Sunday is dedicated to the finals in street, miniramp and Girlʼs Jam.
Thursday, 5. August:
Junior Champs Street 14:00-19:00
Friday, 6. August:
Street prequalification 12:00-19:00
Saturday, 7. August:
Miniramp qualification 14:00-16:00
Street qualification 12:00-18:00
Sunday, 8. August:
Girls qualification 10:30-11:30
Street semifinal 12:00-14:00
Girls final 14:00-14:30
Miniramp final 14:30-15:30
Street final 16:00-17:00
Best trick 17:00-17:30
Awards ceremony 18:00
Aaron Chase headed to his favoriate place on earth- Highland Mountain Bike Park for the start of the Hold On Loosely Tour. This is going to be a 2 part series. Aaron made an exclusive deal with VitalMTB and Lucent Production, grabbed Cam Zink, Smutok and others and headed on the open road. Check out the teaser above.
Check out Cam McCauls and Aarn Chase`s runs at Claymore Challenge wich happened mid July.
Cam ended up 2nd and Aaron 6th.
Congratulation!
Read some quotes:
Cam McCaul:
“It was great to be back at the Claymore challenge after winning in ’08 and being out last year due to an injury. My Trek Team-mate Brandon Semenuk won last year, and I knew I’d have to up my game if I wanted to try to win again. I qualified first and was sitting in 1st after the first final runs, but I knew Brandon had some stuff up his sleeve for his second run. He pulled out a banger run and bested me by .25 points. I let it all hang out in my 2nd run, but crashed on the last jump. At the end of the day, Trek snagged 1st and 2nd so we’re stoked!”
Aaron Chase:
“I can’t say it enough…those guys are doing ALL the right things. I got up there to train about a week early and helped the team there finish filling their brand new foam pit! They opened the HTC (Highland Training Center) and it is dope! It was sweet to be able to ride a little fresh foam and get ready for the event. The event was broadcast LIVE on 6 different websites and nearly 50k people watched it LIVE! Amazing stuff. I did a bunch of Go Pro POV footage for the Pre Game show as well as made a deal with PinkBike to blog from the event. Check out all the links…PinkBike is re-playing the entire webcast for the next week. So sick! oh- and by the way I finished 6th. I was stoked! If you missed the LIVE feed check it here: http://www.pinkbike.com/news/claymore-challenge-replay-2010.html#top
