Mathias Weissenbacher Takes First at the 5Star 12th Red Bull Nanshan Open!

Mathias Weissenbacher赢得第十二届红牛南山公开赛5星赛事冠军！中国，北京-2014年1月11日-在经历过这么多年的红牛南山公开赛后，今年是第一年两天的赛事顺利完成，天气晴朗，一切按部就班，男子及女子决赛都精彩绝伦！在经历过15进6的半决赛后，来自奥地利的选手Mathias Weissenbacher最终赢得第一，获得20,000美金奖金。
Beijing, CHINA - January 11th, 2014 - For the first time in more than a few years, the Red Bull Nanshan Open was finally graced with ideal conditions for day two with the men's finals and super finals! With the field of 15 narrowed down to 6 following the finals, at the end of the day it was Austria's Mathias Weissenbacher who topped the podium in first, taking home a cool US$20,000.

   Tim Humpheys' huge cab 900 crail on his second place run             pic by Fischi

Tim Humphrey的获奖滑行中做出了漂亮的cab 900 crail

"南山公开赛实在是太棒了-公园设计的很棒，整个团队都很有活力-能来参加这个比赛绝对是个正确的决定！"Mathias的得奖滑行表现完美，第一个大跳台double blackflip indy，接下来大跳台上fs720 tailgrab，铁杆上lipslide 270下，down rail上front blunt switch up。

来自美国的Tim Humphreys和Ian Thorley经过激烈角逐及后分别名列第二及第三。Ian已经是第二次来南山公开赛了，这次还捧回了6,000美金奖金，"两个星期以前，我告诉Tim说一定要来参加这个世界上最棒的比赛-现在她不仅来了，还和我一起名列前三！这是我人生中最棒的一个星期"。Tim也对这次的比赛赞不绝口"赢得第二名，让我这次行程更加圆满了，就算没有得奖，这次参赛也是我经历过的最棒的赛事，对于第一次来中国的我，很棒！"。Ian在得奖滑行中做了back-to-back double backflip，Tim则做除了非常漂亮，腾空极高的cab900 crail to rodeo 720.

36岁的选手王磊这次赢得了中国选手最高排名-第十，让人印象深刻，让整个团队为之高兴。"我已经两年没有怎么飞过大跳台了，所以对最终的比赛结果还是挺意外的-能和大家一起比赛一起滑雪非常棒！"

我们的滑雪方面的比赛已经到此告一段落了，选手们终于可以放松一下，接下来迎接他们的是卡拉OK party，在所有人离开之前在中国有一个最美妙的时刻。再见！干杯！我们明年见！

"It was a really good time here at the Nanshan Open - a really good park and the whole crew is super fun - I'm so stoked I came here!" Mathias' winning run started with a double blackflip indy on the first kicker, a fs720 tailgrab off the second before getting technical on the rails with a lipslide 270 off on the up rail and a front blunt switch up on the down rail.

American's Tim Humphreys and Ian Thorley rounded out the remaining podium spots with second and third respectively. His second time at the event, a $6,000-richer-Ian said "Two weeks ago I told Tim to come to the best event in the world - and here he is with me on the podium for the two-three! Best week of my life." Tim was equally stoked, "I got second which makes this trip extra awesome, but even if I hadn't of I still had the greatest time ever and got to experience China for the first time!" Ian's run featured back-to-back double backflip varieties, while Tim's featured a huge cab900 crail to rodeo 720.

36-year-old veteran snowboarder Wang Lei was the highest placed Chinese rider, earning an impressive tenth place and earning the largest cheers from the crowd. "I haven't really ridden kickers for two years, so I'm so stoked on the result - it was so much fun riding with everyone again!"

With the snowboarding side of the trip now over, riders are now treated to charming karaoke session with the whole crew before flying off to their next adventure. - Zaijian and Ganbei!

Tim Humphreys (2nd), Mathias Weissenbacher (1st) and Ian Thorley (3rd) stoked on their results!       pic by Fischi

Tim Humphreys (第二名), Mathias Weissenbacher (第一名) 还有 Ian Thorley (第三名) 对最终结果都兴奋不已！

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