Big names on hand as Continental Cup season set to come to a close in Corvatsch
Apr 09, 2025·Snowboard Park & Pipe)
A long winter of FIS Park & Pipe action is set to come to a close in the coming days at Switzerland’s Corvatsch Park, where European Cup Premium competitions for slopestyle and big air are slated to go down at the site where so many memorable Engadin 2025 World Championships moments took place a couple of weeks ago.
European Cup halfpipe competition already hit Corvatsch earlier this week, where New Zealand’s Mischa Thomas and Bennett Balogh of the USA claimed freeski victories, while Zhou Yizhu of China and New Zealand’s Campbell Melville Ives took the respective snowboard victories.
With heavy-hitting fields on hand for both freeski and snowboard, in both slopestyle and big air, the action has heated up in the Corvatsch ECP competitions, where each eight-women, 16-men finals for freeski and snowboard boast some big names.
Freeski slopestyle finals went down on Wednesday, 9 April, where Maria Gasslitter of Italy and Switzerland’s own Fadri Rhyner claimed victories.
Snowboard slopestyle finals will be dropping in on Thursday, 10 April, and both the women’s and men’s start lists are essentially top-to-bottom full of World Cup regulars.
For the women, look to the likes of Momo Suzuki (JPN), Melissa Peperkamp (NED) and Evy Poppe (BEL) to lead the way in Thursday’s finals. For the men, meanwhile, it’s anyone’s ballgame, with a strong Japanese squad lead by Kira Kimura and Yuto Miyamura set to face off against big-timers like Jake Canter (USA), Romain Allemond (FRA), and local legend Nicolas Huber (SUI).
And if you look in the middle of the finals start list you’ll find the the biggest big-timer of them all, Mark McMorris of Canada, who is currently locked into one of the toughest battles of his career as he fights to earn one of the four spots available on a stacked Canadian team for next winter’s Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games.
Big air ECP competition in Corvatsch will cap off the 2024/25 FIS Park & Pipe international-level season, with finals for both freeski and snowboard set to take place on Saturday, 12 April.
Stay tuned for our full Continental Cup season recaps coming up next week!
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