Two-time Olympic medalist Nick Goepper (Lawrenceburg, Ind.) added a second World Championship medal to his collection, grabbing the slopestyle bronze medal in Park City, Utah, Wednesday, at the 2019 Snowboard, Freeski and Freestyle World Championships, presented by Toyota.

Goepper, who also claimed the slopestyle bronze at the 2013 World Championships, stepped up to the challenge of a stacked field, variable snow conditions and fading afternoon flat light, to post his best score on his third and final run to seal the podium finish.

“It was great to have my my sister, my fiancé, and my friends out here along with some family watching at home," said Goepper. "It’s been a great experience here in Park City. There were some positive emotions and some negative emotions today, but we were able to get the contest off. In this type of weather it’s about competing and not necessarily the skiing. There’s a lot of strategy involved. If you going forward or switch, because you tend to get more speed forward. I’m one of the veterans out here and I think experience really helps. It's about picking those tricks that allow you to dial in your landing and carry speed into a tuck and get through the next feature. That was my play today.”

Mac Forehand (Winhall, Vt.) performed very well in tough conditions as well as through some equipment malfunctions and finished just outside the podium in fourth. Forehand broke his skis in practice and had to pivot to find a solution right before the competition. It came down to the wire as organizers were forced to adjust his start position to accommodate the situation. In true World Championship spirit, a French coach offered up his skis for Forehand's first run, which happen to be identical.

"I broke my skis in practice," said Forehand. "I ended up not having any skis for finals, but the French coach offered his skis for my first run. For my second run, my mom actually ran to where we were staying and picked up my other pair and brought them up to the top of the course for me. Shout out to all moms out there, especially my mom for making it happen."

Great Britain’s James Woods took home the UK’s first gold medal in World Championship freeski competition. Norway’s Birk Ruud was second. McRae Williams (Park City, Utah) finished seventh.

"The Park City crowd today was bumping," said Woods. "It's pretty cold and since it has been dumping, there have been plenty of skiing opportunities. It's nice everyone came out and supported freeskiing. I appreciate that a lot."

RESULTS
Men’s slopestyle

HOW TO WATCH
All times EST
*Same-day broadcast
**Next-day broadcast

FREESKI
Saturday, Feb. 9
1:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s halfpipe - Park City Mountain, Utah - NBC

FREESTYLE
Wednesday, Feb. 6
9:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s aerials - Deer Valley Resort, Utah - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold

Thursday, Feb. 7
12:00 a.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s aerials - Deer Valley Resort, Utah - NBCSN*
9:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s team aerials - Deer Valley Resort, Utah - NBCSN, NBC Sports Gold

Friday, Feb. 8
9:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s moguls - Deer Valley Resort, Utah - NBCSN, NBC Sports Gold

Saturday, Feb. 9
9:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s dual moguls - Deer Valley Resort, Utah - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold

Sunday, Feb. 10
2:00 a.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s dual moguls - Deer Valley Resort, Utah - NBCSN*

SNOWBOARDING
Friday, Feb. 8
1:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s halfpipe - Park City Mountain, Utah - NBCSN & NBC Sports Gold

Saturday, Feb. 9
4:00 a.m. - Men and women’s snowboardcross - Feldberg, GER - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
1:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s halfpipe - Park City Mountain, Utah - NBC*

Sunday, Feb. 10
4:00 a.m. - Men and women’s team snowboardcross - Feldberg, GER - OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
1:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s slopestyle - Park City Mountain, Utah - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
4:30 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s slopestyle - Park City Mountain, Utah - NBC*

All streams are available via desktop (NBCSports.com/Live, NBCSports.com/Gold andOlympicChannel.com) as well as mobile, tablet and connected television platforms. The NBC Sports app, NBC Sports Gold app and Olympic Channel app are available on the iTunes App Store, Google Play, Windows Store, Roku Channel Store, Apple TV and Amazon Fire. Exclusive commercial-free coverage will be available for subscribers of the NBC Sports Gold Pass.

Steven Nyman (Sundance, Utah) is starting to feel a lot more like himself these days, except a bit faster! On Wednesday, he posted a career-best FIS World Alpine Ski Championships super-G result, finishing in a three-way tie for eighth in Are, Sweden.

“I’ve been feeling really rusty since Wengen and banging my head,” said Nyman, who suffered a concussion in downhill training run crash last month. “I was going through the concussion protocol, and my body just hasn’t felt that great. But when I got on this snow and I started, I was like ‘Wow! This feels awesome!’”

The 36-year-old veteran, Nyman’s previous best super-G result was ninth in a FIS Ski World Cup race in Val Gardena, Italy, 13 years ago. But this season, he has shown a steady progression in super-G.

“This year, super-G has been quite good for me. I’ve been starting in the back. Starting in the 60s every race, and knocking it into the top 30 in pretty much every race except for one, and even one time 17th,” he said. “So I know I’ve got the speed, especially since starting in the back, but my vision and my ability to really attack lately hasn’t been that great because of hitting my head, and just like a little fear is inside of me. But I just said, ‘respect the course, this is something you’re good at!’”

An indeed he was good on Wednesday, except for just one small mistake that kept him from a top-five, or possibly even a podium result.

“Into the kind of like halfpipe turn, I came in too direct two turns before that and I had to throw is sideways and I lost a lot of speed,” Nyman said. “But other than that I executed quite well and I’m happy. This is actually my second top 10 ever in super-G.”

Italy’s Dominik Paris took the gold in Wednesday’s race, edging out France’s Johan Clarey by a mere .09-seconds. Vincent Kriechmayr of Austria took the bronze. Ryan Cochran-Siegle (Starksboro, Vt.) posted another impressive super-G result, finishing a career-best 11th. Bryce Bennett (Squaw Valley, Calif.) was 23rd from bib 50, skiing the best super-G he has skied since the Santa Caterina World Cup in 2016, coming into the finish corral with a big smile on his face and excitement for the upcoming downhill. Alpine Director Jesse Hunt commented after the race that today’s results for the men are a great start to World Championships, and a good step in the right direction heading into the next two weeks.

Up next at the World Championships, the men compete in downhill Saturday, and Nyman is fired up to race and imagining the possibility of making a childhood dream come true.

“It would be an absolute dream come true to win a medal, and win the World Championships,” Nyman said. “It is something I have dreamt of as a kid - my entire life. For some reason, the World Championships mean more to me than the Olympics. It is something that has inspired me, watching (Daron) Rahlves (the 2001 super-G World Champion), and watching just amazing performances from the Norwegians in the past. (Kjetil André) Aamodt was a hero of mine. It’s something that sounds cool - the World Champion!”

“I felt comfortable on this hill back in 2007, and obviously I feel comfortable now, so hopefully things can come together,” he added, reflecting back to the 2007 World Championships in Are where he finished 21st in the downhill.

RESULTS
Men’s World Championship super-G

HOW TO WATCH
All times EST
*Same-day broadcast
**Next-day broadcast

Friday, Feb. 8
5:00 a.m. - FIS World Alpine Championships women’s alpine combined downhill, Are, SWE - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
9:00 a.m. - FIS World Alpine Championships women’s alpine combined downhill, Are, SWE - NBCSN*
10:00 a.m. - FIS World Alpine Championships women’s alpine combined slalom, Are, SWE - NBCSN, NBC Sports Gold

Saturday, Feb. 9
6:30 a.m. - FIS World Alpine Championships men’s downhill - Are, SWE - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
3:30 p.m. - FIS World Alpine Championships men’s downhill - Are, SWE - NBC*
6:30 p.m. - FIS World Alpine Championships men’s downhill - Are, SWE - NBCSN*

Sunday, Feb. 10
6:30 a.m. - FIS World Alpine Championships women’s downhill - Are, SWE - Olympic Channel-TV, NBCSN, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
3:30 p.m. - FIS World Alpine Championships women’s downhill - Are, SWE - NBC*
10:30 p.m. - FIS World Alpine Championships women’s downhill - Are, SWE - NBCSN*

All streams are available via desktop (NBCSports.com/Live, NBCSports.com/Gold andOlympicChannel.com) as well as mobile, tablet and connected television platforms. The NBC Sports app, NBC Sports Gold app and Olympic Channel app are available on the iTunes App Store, Google Play, Windows Store, Roku Channel Store, Apple TV and Amazon Fire. Exclusive commercial-free coverage will be available for subscribers of the NBC Sports Gold Pass.
 

U.S. Ski & Snowboard, the Olympic National Governing Body (NGB) of ski & snowboard sports in the USA, announced today a multi-year partnership with Pacifico®, making the adventurous, Pilsner-style lager the official beer partner of the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team.

“It’s exciting to bring a new brand into the U.S. Ski & Snowboard family. Our fans are spirited, and we are excited for them to engage with the Pacifico brand at our many dynamic venues at our domestic events over the next four years.” U.S. Ski & Snowboard’s Chief Marketing Officer Dan Barnett

As part of the partnership, Pacifico will receive title sponsor rights to the snowboard events during the 2019 World Championships in Utah Feb. 1-10. These rights will include prominent Pacifico branding for snowboard halfpipe, snowboardcross, slopestyle, and big air events, as well as activation space in the vendor villages for experiential marketing opportunities.

In addition, Pacifico will be the founding partner for the highly anticipated City Big Air Series, premiering in 2019 and running annually for three years. The City Big Air series will be held in a different major metropolitan area each year and announcements for the showcased venues will be forthcoming.

To build on Pacifico’s connection with action sports and competitions, the U.S. Ski & Snowboard sponsorship will run through 2022 and the next Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. Pacifico will engage and activate with fans, as well as receive branding rights, at all domestic World Cup events hosted by U.S. Ski & Snowboard for the next four years, including alpine, cross country, freeski, freestyle and snowboard events. Pacifico will also establish an athlete ambassador program, highlighting high profile, legal drinking age athletes as they train and compete towards reaching podiums.

“On behalf of the Pacifico brand, we are very excited to be the Official Beer Partner of the U.S. Ski & Snowboard team. Pacifico is brewed for those who follow their own path, and this team is made up of athletes that are pioneers in their sport.  We look forward to sharing Pacifico’s independent spirit with their fans.” Pacifico’s Senior Director Matt Escalante.

For more information about U.S. Ski & Snowboard and Pacifico’s partnership, contact U.S. Ski & Snowboard’s Director of Marketing and Communications, Tom Webb, at tom.webb@usskiandsnowboard.org.
 

After much careful consideration, the organizers of the 2019 FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships have taken the decision to cancel the snowboard big air competition, based on the weather forecast and with the best interests of the athletes in mind, and the remaining events scheduled to take place.
   
The snowboard big air finals were due to take place at Park City Mountain's Canyons Village from 7pm on Tuesday 5 February. Having taken into account all relevant factors, including the weather forecast for the next 24 hours in Park City, Utah, the organizing committee, comprising U.S. Ski & Snowboard, the International Ski Federation, Park City Mountain Resort and a number of related agencies, took the regrettable decision to cancel the event.
   
"There is an awful lot of snow coming in to Park City in the next 24 hours, and the temperatures are dropping fast" said Calum Clark, Chair of the the 2019 FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships Organizing Committee. "This means that we have had to take the toughest of decisions, cancelling one of the headline events of these World Championships. We looked in detail at every option open to us, but the Organizing Committee agreed unanimously that the safety of the athletes taking part in the competition is our primary concern, as is the smooth running of the rest of the schedule. Despite this news, we have five more days of incredible action to look forward to, and many more World Champions to crown."
   
Also announced today was a change to the schedule for Wednesday February 6, with the freeski slopestyle finals moved from 11am to 2pm, still at Park City Mountain Resort. This change also takes into account the postponement of freeski slopestyle qualifiers on Tuesday February 5, allowing the qualifiers to take place from 9.15am on Wednesday February 6 at Park City Mountain. For full schedule details please go to https://2019worldchamps.com/schedule/.

Robert Burns (Mount Shasta, Calif.) battled snowy conditions and raced his way into finals Tuesday at the 2019 FIS Alpine Snowboard World Championships at Park City Mountain, Utah. In the first round of the parallel slalom finals, he faced a very worthy competitor in the 2019 parallel giant slalom World Champion, Dmitry Loginov of Russia. In what was a very close race from the start, Loginov bested Burns by only .62 seconds.

“It’s so much fun,” said Burns. “Honestly, it’s just an honor to be out here with some of my best buds on snowboards. I’ve been out training in Steamboat Springs, Colo, and it’s been a crazy year. I’ve been working a lot and training as much as possible, so getting to come out here and represent the U.S. is a huge honor. Head to head I have never had to race Loginov before, but I know he is such a talented kid. He won yesterday and he’s already the champion of the world in PGS, so anytime you’re up against someone like that, you have to bring your best. It’s been truly amazing to compete in Park City on home soil at the World Champs in front of a great crowd. It just makes my heart happy. Also, it’s rare to have my family here, so it’s a very special moment.”

Loginov went on to earn his second FIS World Championship gold medal of the week in parallel slalom, carving his way through the bracket to take the victory. Burns finished 15th overall on the day. Although he did not reach the podium, he represented his country and snowboarding in fine fashion at the 2019 FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships, presented by Toyota.

Tune in to NBC for five more days of World Championships action.

RESULTS
Men’s parallel slalom
Women’s parallel slalom

HOW TO WATCH
All times EST
*Same-day broadcast
**Next-day broadcast

FREESKI
Wednesday, Feb. 6
1:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s slopestyle - Park City Mountain, Utah - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
5:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s slopestyle - Park City Mountain, Utah - NBCSN*

Saturday, Feb. 9
1:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s halfpipe - Park City Mountain, Utah - NBC

FREESTYLE
Wednesday, Feb. 6
9:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s aerials - Deer Valley Resort, Utah - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold

Thursday, Feb. 7
12:00 a.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s aerials - Deer Valley Resort, Utah - NBCSN*
9:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s team aerials - Deer Valley Resort, Utah - NBCSN, NBC Sports Gold

Friday, Feb. 8
9:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s moguls - Deer Valley Resort, Utah - NBCSN, NBC Sports Gold

Saturday, Feb. 9
9:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s dual moguls - Deer Valley Resort, Utah - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold

Sunday, Feb. 10
2:00 a.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s dual moguls - Deer Valley Resort, Utah - NBCSN*

SNOWBOARDING
Tuesday, Feb. 5
9:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s snowboardcross re-air - Park City Mountain Resort, Utah - NBCSN & NBC Sports Gold

Friday, Feb. 8
1:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s halfpipe - Park City Mountain, Utah - NBCSN & NBC Sports Gold

Saturday, Feb. 9
1:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s halfpipe - Park City Mountain, Utah - NBC*

Sunday, Feb. 10
1:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s slopestyle - Park City Mountain, Utah - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
4:30 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s slopestyle - Park City Mountain, Utah - NBC*

All streams are available via desktop (NBCSports.com/Live, NBCSports.com/Gold and OlympicChannel.com) as well as mobile, tablet and connected television platforms. The NBC Sports app, NBC Sports Gold app and Olympic Channel app are available on the iTunes App Store, Google Play, Windows Store, Roku Channel Store, Apple TV and Amazon Fire. Exclusive commercial-free coverage will be available for subscribers of the NBC Sports Gold Pass.
 

Mikaela Shiffrin (Avon, Colo.) took some calculated risks and squeaked out her first gold medal of the 2019 FIS World Alpine Ski Championships, winning the super-G Tuesday in Are, Sweden.

"This is crazy," a surprised Shiffrin said after winning her fourth career World Championships gold medal, just 0.02-seconds ahead of Italy's Sofia Goggia in second, and 0.04-seconds ahead of Switzerland's Corinne Suter in third. "It was a really tight race - seven-hundredths to fourth place, I mean, come, on."

It was a tough day for Lindsey Vonn (Vail, Colo.), competing in the final super-G of her 18-year career when she crashed hard after putting her body through a panel on a gate and sliding into the safety nets. After a few minutes, Vonn was able to stand up and eventually skied to the bottom of the course where Shiffrin was waiting to give her a big hug.

Despite the victory, it wasn’t all smooth sailing for Shiffrin though as she made a miraculous recovery towards the bottom of the course, just sneaking inside a gate at the last possible moment.

“I knew that everybody was pushing really hard, and the surface was amazing, so you could really go for it,” she said. “You had to have the balance between risk and also really nice turns. I was going really aggressive, and just the one spot towards the bottom where I had to fight to stay in the course, but otherwise it was all good and I was accelerating all the way.”

Alice Merryweather (Hingham, Mass.), competing in her first World Championship race, finished 22nd. Almost a one-third of the field didn’t finish Tuesday’s race, including Laurenne Ross (Bend, Ore.), who also went through a panel and slid into the safety net, but was OK and skied to the finish.

Tuesday victory was Shiffrin’s fourth World Championship gold medal to go along with her slalom titles from the 2017, 2015 and 2013 World Championships. With the first race of the World Championships in the win column, Shiffrin hasn’t ruled out competing in Friday’s alpine combined, or Sunday’s downhill, which is also expected to be Vonn’s final race.

“I’m going to take a minute tonight and talk with my coaches and see what we think we can do for the rest of these World Champs,” Shiffrin said.

Up next, the men compete in super-G at the World Championships Wednesday.

RESULTS
Women's super-G

HOW TO WATCH
All times EST
*Same-day broadcast
**Next-day broadcast

Wednesday, Feb. 6
6:25 a.m. - FIS World Alpine Championships men’s super-G, Are, SWE - NBCSN, NBC Sports Gold

Friday, Feb. 8
5:00 a.m. - FIS World Alpine Championships women’s super combined downhill, Are, SWE - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
9:00 a.m. - FIS World Alpine Championships women’s super combined downhill, Are, SWE - NBCSN*
10:00 a.m. - FIS World Alpine Championships women’s super combined slalom, Are, SWE - NBCSN, NBC Sports Gold

Saturday, Feb. 9
6:30 a.m. - FIS World Alpine Championships men’s downhill - Are, SWE - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
3:30 p.m. - FIS World Alpine Championships men’s downhill - Are, SWE - NBC*
6:30 p.m. - FIS World Alpine Championships men’s downhill - Are, SWE - NBCSN*

Sunday, Feb. 10
6:30 a.m. - FIS World Alpine Championships women’s downhill - Are, SWE - Olympic Channel-TV, NBCSN, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
3:30 p.m. - FIS World Alpine Championships women’s downhill - Are, SWE - NBC*
10:30 p.m. - FIS World Alpine Championships women’s downhill - Are, SWE - NBCSN*

All streams are available via desktop (NBCSports.com/Live, NBCSports.com/Gold andOlympicChannel.com) as well as mobile, tablet and connected television platforms. The NBC Sports app, NBC Sports Gold app and Olympic Channel app are available on the iTunes App Store, Google Play, Windows Store, Roku Channel Store, Apple TV and Amazon Fire. Exclusive commercial-free coverage will be available for subscribers of the NBC Sports Gold Pass.

The U.S. Freeski Team is set to compete against an impressive international field on Tuesday with the beginning of the slopestyle program at the 2019 FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships, presented by Toyota, in Park City, Utah.

The U.S. will be represented by four men and four women including defending world champion and Park City local McRae Williams (Park City, Utah), 2019 X Games gold medalist Alex Hall (Salt Lake City, Utah), and two-time Olympic medalist Nick Goepper (Lawrenceburg, Ind.). Mac Forehand, (Winhall, Vt.) and Willie Borm (Chaska, Minn.) will also compete.

“The course that the I Ride Park City crew put together for world champs is super fun to ride," said Williams. "There is a variety of creative rail options that flow nicely into the jumps, which is important to maintain speed on the relatively flat pitch of the slope they had to work with. The jumps themselves are very well shaped and the wide kickers make it super playful.”

For the women, Olympians Maggie Voisin (Whitefish, Mont.), Caroline Claire (Manchester Center, Vt.), and 2019 World Championships big air silver medalist Julia Krass (Hanover, N.H.) will compete. In addition, U.S. Freeski Rookie Team member Marin Hamill (Park City, Utah) will be in the running. 

Freeski slopestyle made its debut in the World Championships for the first time in 2011 at Park City Mountain’s famous Kings Crown run. Park City is home to some of America’s top slopestyle athletes and this week, they welcome the world to compete. With a beautifully built slopestyle course and a stacked U.S. roster, the World Championship slopestyle competition at Park City Mountain is one you will not want to miss. Tune in to NBC to catch all the action.

START LISTS
Men’s freeski slopestyle
Women’s freeski slopestyle

HOW TO WATCH
All times EST
*Same-day broadcast

FREESKI
Wednesday, Feb. 6
1:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s slopestyle - Park City Mountain, Utah - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
5:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s slopestyle - Park City Mountain, Utah - NBCSN*

Americans will face off against a strong international field this week in parallel giant slalom and parallel slalom at the 2019 FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships, presented by Toyota, at Utah’s Park City Mountain. The U.S. will be represented by four women and four men. For the men, Ryan Rosencranz (Weston, Mass.), Cody Winters (Steamboat Springs, Colo.), Robert Burns (Mount Shasta, Calif.) and 2018 PyeongChang Olympian, and U.S Alpine Snowboard B Team member AJ Muss (Rumson, N.J.) will represent the U.S.

“At 24, I'm lucky enough to come back to the U.S. to participate in my third World Championships with my first being in Stoneham, Canada, and then two years ago in Sierra Nevada, Spain,” said Muss. “Coming home to compete on my home soil means alot since I have been training in Europe for so long! I’m super stoked to come back to Park City having not ridden here since Nastar Nationals years and years ago as a child. It always means alot to represent the U.S. whether it be the highest honor of representing Alpine Snowboarding at the Olympics last year in Korea or every time I pull out of gate on the World Cup Stage. The journey is not easy, but I am truly a proud American athlete striving to wins medals for myself and my country.“

For the ladies, Abby Champagne (Park CIty, Utah), Kaiya Kizuka (Sinking Spring, Penn.), Lynn Ott (Boston, Mass.) and Alexa Bullis (Slinger, Wisc.) are set to compete.

"I am beyond excited to be racing my first World Champs in my home town of Park City in front of my family and friends," said Champagne. "I am so thankful for the opportunity to represent the U.S. while racing with the best in the world. I have been fighting some injuries this season, but my goal for these World Champs is to come out strong and ride to the best of my abilities and of course to have fun and enjoy every bit of it."

Ott also shared her thoughts on being the veteran in the group. 

"I’m definitely not the youngest out here so when people fixate on me being older, I just think that it's just a number as not to let it get in my head," said Ott. My biggest accomplishment is living the dream for so long in the sport I love and getting to snowboard and enjoy life as much as I do. Snowboarding is my place of peace from working in the city."

The qualification round will be run on parallel courses. These courses are the same as, or similar to, the parallel finals courses, in terms of the number of gates, fall line, gate distance and angle of inclination. The qualification consists of two runs: the qualification run (first run) and the elimination run (second run). All qualified competitors (those with a valid time registered) from the qualification run start in the elimination run. They start on the opposite course in reverse order of their rank. The top 16 ranked competitors according to the combined time of the two runs qualify to the finals.

In the final round, two competitors ride side-by-side down the courses. The setting of the courses, configuration of the ground and preparation of the snow are to be as nearly identical as possible (vertical drop is 120-200 metres). Parallel finals heats consist of two runs. The competitors change courses for the second run ("Red" and "Blue" course). The loser of the first run starts with a time delay, which corresponds to his/her time behind from the first run. The delay is limited to a "penalty time" of 1.5 second). Finals heats consist of a direct knockout format: the best qualified competitor can choose his lane at start, the first to cross the finish line wins the heat and moves on to the next round.

The head-to-head direct knockout format will make for exciting competitions at Park City Mountain. Tune in on NBC to catch all the action.

HOW TO WATCH
All times EST
*Same-day broadcast
**Next-day broadcast

SNOWBOARDING
Monday, Feb. 4
3:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s parallel giant slalom - Park City Mountain Resort, Utah - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
7:30 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s parallel giant slalom - Park City Mountain Resort, Utah - NBCSN*

Tuesday, Feb. 5
3:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s parallel slalom - Park City Mountain, Utah - NBCSN & NBC Sports Gold
9:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s big air - Park City Mountain Resort, Utah - NBCSN & NBC Sports Gold
 

Lindsey Jacobellis (Stratton Mountain, Vt.) and Mick Dierdorff (Steamboat Springs, Colo.) earned the gold for U.S. Ski & Snowboard in the inaugural mixed-team snowboardcross at the 2019 FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships, presented by Toyota, at Utah’s Solitude Mountain Resort.

For DIerdorff the gold was World Championship win number two, coming hot on the heels of his victory on day one of the competition in the men’s snowboardcross event. For Jacobellis, the most successful female athlete ever in the sport, the win was redemption after falling short of the podium earlier this week in the individual women’s snowboardcross competition.

With eight inches of fresh snow blanketing the snowboardcross course at Solitude Mountain, the mixed-team race made its World Championship debut at the 2019 FIS World Champs, ahead of its first appearance at an Olympic Winter Games in Beijing 2022.

“It feels great to come back a couple days later and do well and find the top of the podium again, and earn another world champs title,” said Jacobellis. “It was amazing to have Mick there with me. This new dynamic kept me relaxed and added an extra element of fun.”

Dierdorff also commented on the similarities and differences from a traditional snowboardcross race to a mixed-team snowboardcross race.

“I don’t think anything changes as far as mindset,” said the newly crowned double-World Champ. “Especially dropping first. It feels like a normal boardercross heat. More so, it changes for the second person. You don’t know if you will be coming out of the gate last and have all this ground to make up, like what happened today for Lindsey. Your mindset in a normal heat is to get out in front early, and to turn that into a hunt and chasing a rabbit out in front of you changes things. In addition, the fresh snow also changes conditions as we had to figure out how to ride the course in a different way at a different speed.”

Jacobellis earned her sixth World Championships gold medal and has still has never failed to top a podium at a World Championship event she has contested. This is also Dierdorff’s second top-level international competition victory. The team of Jacobellis and Dierdorff was clearly a great match.

“It was a really great experience teaming up with Mick,” said Jacobellis. “I was really happy with my performance on the individual race side and being able to switch it up and have a strategy with Mick was amazing. I’m used to going out of the gate first in the team race, so it was a little nerve-wracking sitting at the gate and waiting for it to drop. I was definitely a little over gripped in some situations and even had some trouble getting out of the start. I’m happy that turned around for me and I was able to execute.”

The sport of mixed-team snowboardcross requires a different type of communication than the traditional individual race format. With the men starting first, and the women waiting for a signal from the coach, and ultimately for their teammate to cross the line before the start gate opens, it makes for an interesting dynamic on the course.

“We do have spotters on the course,” said Jacobellis. “Jeff Archibald is down at the bottom and radios up to the top to give an idea of how the men will finish. I did know my gate was going to drop fourth. It made me really want to focus and nail that start to get as much momentum and tuck into the draft.”

With the men running first in the final, Dierdorff found himself in trouble for the first time in either the individual race or the mixed-team competition at the worst possible time, falling behind and unable to make a pass at any point throughout his half of the race. While he was able to keep himself close to the pack of riders ahead, Dierdorff crossed the line just over a half-second back.

“The first thing I am trying to do is be first and give Lindsey a big as of a gap as possible,” said Dierdorff. “The first two worked out, and then in the final, the heat didn’t go my way for the first time on their course. Initially upon crossing the finish line in fourth, but still very much in the pack, I couldn’t help but have a gut wrenching feeling. I think one of the coolest parts about it was that I realized I have one of the greatest of all time in Lindsey Jacobellis on my team. I think it made it that much more exciting for her to have that task ahead to go from fourth to first and it just shows how good of a rider she really is. It was so cool being down there and cheering for Lindsey in the first ever mixed-team event.”

With an amazing week of snowboardcross training and competition, one thing was clear, the U.S. riders really enjoyed their time at Solitude Mountain Resort.

“Coming to Solitude, I knew it was going to be an awesome course. It’s such a cool mountain and has incredible people. They supported us so well, and that helped make the dreams come true this week!”

RESULTS
Mixed-team snowboardcross

HOW TO WATCH
All times EST
*Same-day broadcast
**Next-day broadcast

FREESKI
Wednesday, Feb. 6
1:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s slopestyle - Park City Mountain, Utah - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
5:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s slopestyle - Park City Mountain, Utah - NBCSN*

Saturday, Feb. 9
1:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s halfpipe - Park City Mountain, Utah - NBC

FREESTYLE
Wednesday, Feb. 6
9:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s aerials - Deer Valley Resort, Utah - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold

Thursday, Feb. 7
12:00 a.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s aerials - Deer Valley Resort, Utah - NBCSN*
9:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s team aerials - Deer Valley Resort, Utah - NBCSN, NBC Sports Gold

Friday, Feb. 8
9:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s moguls - Deer Valley Resort, Utah - NBCSN, NBC Sports Gold

Saturday, Feb. 9
9:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s dual moguls - Deer Valley Resort, Utah - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold

Sunday, Feb. 10
2:00 a.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s dual moguls - Deer Valley Resort, Utah - NBCSN*

SNOWBOARDING
Monday, Feb. 4
3:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s parallel giant slalom - Park City Mountain Resort, Utah - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
7:30 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s parallel giant slalom - Park City Mountain Resort, Utah - NBCSN*

Tuesday, Feb. 5
3:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s parallel slalom - Park City Mountain, Utah - NBCSN & NBC Sports Gold
9:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s big air - Park City Mountain Resort, Utah - NBCSN & NBC Sports Gold

Friday, Feb. 8
1:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s halfpipe - Park City Mountain, Utah - NBCSN & NBC Sports Gold

Saturday, Feb. 9
1:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s halfpipe - Park City Mountain, Utah - NBC*

Sunday, Feb. 10
1:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s slopestyle - Park City Mountain, Utah - Olympic Channel-TV, OlympicChannel.com & NBC Sports Gold
4:30 p.m. - FIS World Championships men and women’s slopestyle - Park City Mountain, Utah - NBC*

All streams are available via desktop (NBCSports.com/Live, NBCSports.com/Gold andOlympicChannel.com) as well as mobile, tablet and connected television platforms. The NBC Sports app, NBC Sports Gold app and Olympic Channel app are available on the iTunes App Store, Google Play, Windows Store, Roku Channel Store, Apple TV and Amazon Fire. Exclusive commercial-free coverage will be available for subscribers of the NBC Sports Gold Pass.
 

Julia Krass (Hanover, N.H.) won the freeski big air silver medal at the 2019 FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championship, presented by Toyota, in front of a capacity crowd in the Canyons Village at Park City Mountain, Utah.

“Today was unbelievable, it couldn’t have gone better,” said Krass. “I have never done an event at night like this with so many people watching and to have it be in my hometown is crazy. My whole family is here and all my friends, it’s unbelievable. My family doesn’t get to watch me ski very often so it’s pretty special to have them here. For a second I was thinking of doing a mellower trick on my last run, just to put something really clean down, but my coaches told me I got this, just grab it clean, and that I could do it. I had nothing to lose, so I went up there and did the best trick I knew. I’ve never done something like that. The slope course looks great and to start World Championships like this is epic. I’m excited to keep it going!”

Krass dropped in and immediately stomped what is arguably her most difficult trick, the left double cork 1260 mute grab. She has previously landed this trick at the Stubai, Austria World Cup and in training at the Seiser Alm Italy, World Cup, but this was the first time she was able to put it all together and earn a spot on the podium utilizing the double cork. Krass made history medaling at the first ever freeski big air World Championship competition and will have a shot at another medal is slopestyle during Wednesday’s freeski slopestyle competition.

Maggie Voisin (Whitefish, Mont.) also competed but was unable to reach the podium. Although it was not her night, she commented on the amazing crowd in Park City, saying, “it was such an honor to ski in front of this crowd tonight. I seriously cannot believe how many people showed up. It’s so awesome and it really helped all of the skiers get stoked. We can’t ask for much more than that.”

Either side of Julia Krass was Tess Ledeux of France who earned the gold and Isabel Atkin of Great Britain who closed out the podium with the bronze.

In the men’s competition, Alex Hall (Salt Lake City, Utah) finished just off the podium in fourth but put down some amazing runs in front of his hometown Park City crowd.

“I’m stoked on how I skied,” said Hall. “I landed everything like I wanted to and was able to go a little bigger on that last jump. I didn’t think I would slide into third there, so just being in podium contention for a moment was great. Everyone who placed ahead of me killed it and I’m really stoked for them. It was sick tonight, there were so many people and I was really hyped on this event. It was a really fun night overall.”

Swiss freeskier Fabian Boesch finished took home the gold, crowd favorite Henrik Harlaut of Sweden earned silver and Canada’s Alex Beaulieu-Marchand earned the bronze.

With freeski big air slated to join the Olympic programme at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, it was long overdue that the event sees its premiere in world championships competition and the debut did not disappoint. Freeski World Championships competition will continue with slopestyle on Wednesday, Feb. 6 and in the halfpipe at Park City Mountain Resort on Saturday, Feb. 9. Tune in to NBC to catch all the action.

TRICK LIST

Men’s Freeski big air
Fabian Boesch -Left Double Cork 1620 Opposite Tail Grab | Right Triple Cork 1620 Safety Grab to Opposite Tail Grab
Henrik Harlaut - Switch Left 1440 Mute Grab | Left Double Cork 1620 Tail Grab
Alex Beaulieu-Marchand - Left Triple Cork 1260 Safety Grab | Switch Left Triple Cork 1440 Bow and Arrow Grab

Women’s Freeski big air

Tess Ledeux - Left Double Cork 1260 Mute Grab | Switch Left Bio 1080 Japan Grab
Julia Krass - Right Double 1080 Safety Grab | Switch Right 1080 Safety Grab
Isabel Atkin - Right 900 Opposite Tail Grab | Switch Right 1080 Mute Grab

RESULTS
Men’s freeski big air
Women’s freeski big air

HOW TO WATCH
*Same-day broadcast
**Next-day broadcast

FREESKI
Wednesday, Feb. 6
1:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men’s and women’s freeski slopestyle - Olympic Channel-TV and NBC Sports Gold

5:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men’s and women’s freeski slopestyle  - NBCSN*

Saturday, Feb. 9
1:00 p.m. - FIS World Championships men’s and women’s freeski halfpipe NBC-TV and NBC Sports Gold