LAKE WANAKA, New Zealand – The inaugural FIS Snowboard & Freestyle Junior World Championships came to a close yesterday after 11 days of successful competition. The event combined snowboard and freestyle ski in the same world championships for the first time and marked a new era in competitive snow sports paving the way for the potential introduction of new disciplines into the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The Championships also marked the first time that Association of Freeski Professionals (AFP) allocated points to a FIS World Championships allowing competitors to accumulate points for both organisations’ world rankings, starting to pull all the different sections of the sport together “It is very exciting New Zealand is so pivotal in developing the future structure of these snow sports,” said Junior World Championships event director, Arthur Klap.

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Junior World Championships: Success for SnowSports