September 25 - 27, 2009 - Zurich, Switzerland

Zurich, Switzerland played host to another addition of freestyle.ch.  Freestyle.ch is an annual event that hosts some of the world's best freeskiers, snowboarders, freestyle motocrossers and skateboarders.  20 snowboarders and freeskiers as well as 8 FMXers and 12 skateboarders went head-to-head in qualification rounds on Friday and Saturday, followed by the finals on Sunday.
Elias and Lolo on their way to the jump.

More than 47,000 spectators turned out on Sunday to watch the finals.   SCOTT was well represented in the finals by Tom Wallisch, Laurent Favre and Elias Ambuhl.  Competition was fierce and after a 2 run final, four athletes made the superfinal.  The superfinal was aired live on Swiss national television and in more than 180 countries.  Elias Ambuhl through a super smooth switch double cork 1080 high mute and qualified in the 4 spot for the super final.  Unfortunately, Tom Wallisch (5th) and Laurent Favre (7th) did not make the superfinal but still maintained solid top ten finishes.


Rider: Elias Ambühl  Photo: Marc Weiler

The other athletes joining Elias in the freestyle.ch superfinal were Sammy Carlson, Andreas Hatveit and Jon Olsson.  Elias skied incredibly and stomping his switch double cork 1080 double grab pulled him into 2nd place.  In the end, Sammy was unstoppable and his double cork 10 mute took home the title. 



On the motocross side, SCOTT athlete Mat Rebaud rode to a solid 3rd place finish.