The four winners of the Peak Performance King of Style Video Qualification have now been announced. Three American riders and one Canadian have progressed to the big air competition and will join the international stars already invited to the Peak Performance King of Style.
There were originally only two qualifying places, but the standard was so incredibly high, that the number was increased to four.
The four riders who have qualified for the Peak Performance King of Style event are Tom Wallisch, Michael Clarke and Gus Kenworthy, all from the USA and Ian Cosco from Canada. The jury - Henrik Windstedt, the 2008 freeride world champion, and Richard Permin, last year’s Peak Performance King of Style winner - faced a tough task in selecting the best entries. And that was despite increasing the number of qualifying places to four. The jury emphasized style and degree of difficulty in making its selection.
“The standard of riders in this video qualifying event is so high it’s sick, and a lot of them have also worked really hard to make their entries attractive from a cinematic viewpoint. The jury’s task was to focus on the best skiing performances and in the end, we had ten names, all of whom could probably have done well in the final in Stockholm. But we thought these four were the best of all,” says Henrik Windstedt, who’s currently training hard to defend his world title.
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