Fri, April 7, 2000; bh) Last stop of the Motorola ISF World Pro Tour 1999/2000 in Alpine! The almost traditional event here at the Jakobshorn Bahnen in Davos / SUI, held for the 9th time, has been the perfect atmosphere for a great race tonight: Thousands of spectators in the huge event-village on the ‘Bolgen’ saw the world’s best riders doing a great show, and the winners of the prestigious titles of the Motorola ISF World Champion in Alpine really had to prove
their skills in tonight’s K.O. finals:
The women’s: After current leader in the rankings Ursula Bruhin (SUI/F2) won the qualification this morning and second in the ranking, Jana Sedova (SVK/Burton) came also second in the qualification – it simply could’nt have been closer before the finals started. Bad luck for third ranked Heidi Jaufenthaler (AUT/Burton), who crashed in the qualification and so could not
fight for the title. In the finals then it soon became obvious that Bruhin wouldn’t let anyone
get on the podium higher than her, she did run after run without the slightest mistake and clearly won both, competition and title!
At the men’s, long time leader of this year’s rankings and winner of the qualification, Swiss Scott rider Gilles Jaquet dropped out already in the first round, so he unfortunately was out of the title race soon and the decision was made between Jaquet’s teammate Ueli Kestenholz and leading Austrian Siegfrid Grabner (Burton). Kestenholz, had to compete against (Swiss Racing-) Team colleague Phillip Schoch (SUI/F2) already in the quarterfinals due to their ranks of the qualification: And Kestenholz won, won against Michi Dabringer then in the semi finals and so was in the finals.On the other side of the ladder, Siegfried Grabner fought his way into the
podium, but in the semi-finals, he was defeated by strong Swiss rider Urs Eiselin (Nidecker), and so the decision was on the edge again: In case Kestenholz comes second, a third place in the small finals for Grabner would have been enough to win the World Championship title. But Kestenholz proved his strength and by winning the finals also and is now World Champion in
Alpine. ‘It was a perfect race for me, even better! It’s my Girlfriend’s birthday and I dedicate today’s victory to her’, Kestenholz stated.
Results Duel Women
1 BRUHIN Ursula SUI F2
2 HOFFMANN Babsi AUT HOT
3 HIMMLER Katharina GER VOELKL
4 SEDOVA Jana SVK BURTON
5 NEURURER Heidi AUT BURTON
6 KRINGS Doris AUT VOELKL
7 MEISSER Milena SUI F2
8 DAL BALCON Isabella ITA F2
9 MEULI Daniela SUI HOT
10 DUJMOVITS Gloria AUT RAUCH
11 LIVERS Nadia SUI F2
12 AUER Carmen AUT BURTON
13 ZUPAN Polona SLO
14 SALAVCOVA Karolina CZE BURTON
15 JAUFENTHALER Heidi AUT BURTON
16 PLANCHEREL Cecile SUI RED BULL
17 KOECK Brigitte AUT O’NEILL
18 ELZENBAUMER Bianca ITA BURTON
19 UESHIMA Shinobu JPN SIMS
20 PESKO Manuela SUI BURTON
21 MIYOSHI Kazumi JPN NIDECKER
22 MACHIDA Yoshiko JPN BURTON
23 TANAKA Akira JPN JCOGASAKA
24 BUEHLER Perrine SUI BURTON
25 TAKAHASHI Masako JPN BC-STREAM
26 NAKAMURA Hiroko JPN ROSSIGNOL
27 MIWA Taki JPN GRAY ESP
28 YAMADA Chiho JPN MOSS
Results Duel Men
1 KESTENHOLZ Ueli SUI SCOTT
2 EISELIN Urs SUI NIDECKER
3 GRABNER Siegfried AUT BURTON
4 DABRINGER Michi AUT BURTON
5 ZANGERL Karl-Heinz AUT OXBOW
6 GRUETTER Andre SUI BURTON
7 SCHOCH Philipp SUI F2
8 KAITALA Janne FIN BURTON
9 JAQUET Gilles SUI SCOTT
10 BOECK Stefan AUT HH
11 MAEKAWA Jun JPN HOT
12 RING Gerry AUT ZIENER
13 SCHOCH Simon SUI F2
14 SALVATI Simone ITA BURTON
15 KNABL Stefan AUT
16 HANSELMANN Christian SUI MAMMUT
17 FAWCETT Mark CAN HARDCORPS
18 ISBRANDT Guenter ITA WILD DUCK
19 FLANDER Rok SLO GOLTLES
20 CHRISTOFFEL Marcel SUI VOELKL
21 HILFIKER Marcel SUI F2
22 TENGG Christoph AUT VOLKLSUKO
23 GEILER Manuel AUT F2
24 WALCHER Joerg AUT CLEAN
25 CARIGIET Eric SUI F2
26 SETTELE Christian GER VOELKL
27 DEUBL Alexander GER F2
28 NOGUERE Sebastien FRA F2
29 BUEHLER Cyrill SUI BURTON
30 DAN Yuji JPN NITRO ESP
31 STRIGL Mathias AUT HOT
32 MUKAIGAWA Koreyoshi JPN BC-STREAM
33 SCHMITT Ingolf GER GENERICS
34 SUGIMOTO Koji JPN BURTON
35 OBERMOSER Gerald AUT HOT
36 PROULX Sylvain CAN CHIEMSEE
37 CAVEGN Simon SUI NIDECKER
38 EISELIN Andreas SUI EISSPORT
39 SCHNIDRIG Louis SUI VOELKL
40 UHLMANN Manuel SUI F2REDBULL
41 SPOERLI Martin NZE OXYGEN
42 KALTENBACH Sisley SUI SCOTT
43 BATES Michael GBR SCOTT
44 KAWATA Noriaki JPN GRAY
45 BUEHLER Ruedi SUI BURTON
46 SUZUKI Hiroshi JPN BURTON
47 ‘*PRIELMAIER Andreas GER F2
Motorola ISF World Championships 1999/2000 – Alpine Women:
1 BRUHIN Urlula SUI F2
2 SEDOVA Jana SVK Burton
3 JAUFENTHALER Heidi AUT Burton
Motorola ISF World Championships 1999/2000 – Alpine Men:
1 KESTENHOLZ Ueli SUI Scott
2 GRABNER Siegfried AUT Burton
3 JAQUET Gilles SUI Scott
Cybercasting AND live streaming of the finals 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.