Alex Hall takes victory at Grandvalira Total Fight freeski

Grandvalira welcomed April with the grand finale of the 13th Grandvalira Total Fight freeski at El Tarter snowpark in Andorra. Total Fight Slopestyle event, gold category of the AFP World Tour.

The technical team of Grandvalira prepared a Slopestyle circuit composed of 6 modules, in this order: first, a transfer to rail with Double Kink and Brighton. The second, a multi options container with Wallride, Rail Gap to Step Up – Step down and railing. The third one, Gap to rail with option of Quarter Butter Box and Rail Donkey Tail in descent. The fourth, a 21 m flat kicker. The fifth, one kicker of 18 m flat. The sixth and final, another 18 m flat kicker.

On Friday we had an exciting qualifying session by riders from the following countries: USA, Finland, Sweden, France, Holland, Switzerland, Argentina, Mexico, Spain and Andorra. The top 10 riders who went to the final were Noah Wallace, Henrik Harlaut, Robby Franco, Carlitos Aguareles, Aleksi Patja, Antoine Adelisse, Antti Ollila, Alex Hall, Quinn Wolferman and McRae Williams -McRae with the highest score in the qualifying session.

On Saturday, the day didn’t start in the best way; in the free practice local idol, Carlitos Aguareles, hit hard his right leg in the second feature and could not ride the final. So at the end would be 9 riders who would make 3 runs in search of the best score to be crowned as winners of Grandvalira Total Fight 2017.

In the first round of the final, American McRae Williams and Frenchman Antoine Adelisse scored the best and seemed to be the favorites for the final victory, followed closely by the Swedish Henrik Harlaut. The surprise of the final would arrive in the second run: the Swiss Alex Hall, after making a very loose first run, would complete in his second attempt the best score of the day with a stratospheric round composed by a Backside Switch-Up Pretzel 270 Off on first rail, Backside 270 back 180 on second rail/container, Switch 270 Pretzel 630 on third rail, Switch Leftside Double-Cork 1080 Japan Grab jump 1, Switch Rightside Double-Cork 900 Safety Grab jump 2 and Leftside Double-cork 1260 Seatbelt Grab final jump. The audience that filled the stands went crazy with the performance of the Swiss rider.

In the third run of the final, Henrik Harlaut – winner of the X Games 2017, would improve his final score but would not be enough to take a podium spot. In this way, the final victoryi would be for Hall, second Williams, third Adelisse and fourth Harlaut.

After victory, Alex Hall commented:

“I’m super happy. I suffered a little bit by the weather this morning, the speed was the same for all of us and in the end the day was opened and I could do what I had in mind. I loved the rails as well as the jumping section was amazing. No doubt, Grandvalira has done a very good job. ”

The podium and awards ceremony would be held at the renowned L’Abarset ápres ski, as well as the end of the party with the Monster Total Fight Party and the live performance of the Nasty Bass music group until late at night, where it would start to cook what will be the Grandvalira Total Fight of 2018.

GRANDVALIRA TOTAL FIGHT FREESKI 2017
FINAL RESULT

1 HALL Alex SUI                     21.33     95.33     88.66
2 WILLIAMS McRae USA             94.33     41.33     37.33
3 ADELISSE Antoine FRA             93.00     29.66     90.33
4 HARLAUT Henrik SWE             89.33     90.66     92.33
5 WALLACE Noah USA             91.66     30.33     89.66
6 OLLILA Antti FIN                 88.33     87.33     33.33
7 FRANCO Robby MEX             83.33     35.33     77.00
8 WOLFERMAN Quinn USA          68.33     57.00     42.00
9 PATJA Aleksi FIN                 20.33     49.66     26.66
10 AGUARELES Carlitos AND         DNS
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11 VIRKKI Miika FIN                Q1 78.66
12 MAHARAVO Vince FRA             Q2 73.33
13 MCELMON Ryan USA             Q2 70.33
14 GILLON Robin NED             Q1 68.33
15 RINTAMAA Eetu FIN             Q2 65.33
16 RAICH Peter USA                 Q1 64.33
17 PARERA Alex ESP                 Q1 60.66
18 MICELI Nate USA                 Q2 59.66
19 FERNANDES Guilleaume AND     Q2 54.66
20 LAUER Joe USA                 Q1 49.33
21 KURAY Ivan ARG                 Q1 41.33
22 LAUGIER Hugo FRA             Q2 40.33
23 GARRIDO Raul ESP             Q2 32.66
24 FOURCADE Leo FRA             Q2 30.66
25 ASCHER Levi USA                 Q1 17.00

On the next page we publish the final results of the Grandvalira Total Fight freeski 2017.