British Snowboard Teams Compete In Colorado, USA
17th December 2007

British Snowboard Teams Get Set to Compete in Colorado, USA

Friday 14^th December 2007: The British World Cup Snowboardcross, Halfpipe and British Freestyle Team are getting set to compete in Colorado, USA this weekend when they take part in the Chevy US Grand Prix, Breckenridge and the Jeep King of the Mountain World Pro Championships, in Telluride.

British World Cup Snowboardcross Team

Zoe Gillings, Ivy Taylor and Tamsin Evans will be looking to set the pace in the Jeep King of the Mountain World Pro Snowboardcross Championships, at Telluride, Colorado from the 14^th – 16^th December. The girls who have been busy training in Saas Fee, Switzerland will be going head-to-head and shoulder-to-shoulder alongside the World’s best, with Zoe Gillings, who is currently ranked 6^th in the World being a definite medal contender…

British World Cup Halfpipe and Freestyle Team

Dan Wakeham, Ben Kilner, Sam Cullum and Angus Leith from the World Cup Halfpipe Team and, Dom Harington, Jack Shackelton, Kate Foster and Laura Berry from the British Freestyle Team, will all be hitting up Breck’s Super Pipe over the weekend when they compete in the Chevy U.S Grand Prix. Qualifications will be on Friday 14^th December with the finals on Saturday 15^th December. Dan and Ben have been riding super strong, so fingers crossed for some Brits in the finals.

The British Snowboard Team would like to thank the following for there invaluable support: Sponsors: Zoom Airlines - www.flyzoom.com, Halliwells - www.halliwell-landau.co.uk, FOGG - www.fogginsure.co.uk and Junior Squad sponsors, TSA – www.snowboardasylum.com and SNO!zone – www.snozone.co.uk Funding organisations: UK Sport – www.uksport.gov.uk, TASS – www.tass.gov.uk, Sport Scotland – www.sportscotland.org.uk, BOA - www.boa.org.uk

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· There are currently five British Snowboard Teams with 31 team members including:

§ BRITISH WORLD CUP SNOWBOARDCROSS TEAM

§ BRITISH WORLD CUP HALFPIPE TEAM

§ BRITISH FREESTYLE TEAM

§ BRITISH SNOWBOARDCROSS TEAM

§ BRITISH JUNIOR SNOWBOARD SQUAD