The first ever combined Freestyle Skiing and Snowboard FIS Junior World Championships is now done and dusted. Twenty eight nations sent representatives to New Zealand for the inaugural combined JWC’s eighteen competitions, with Russia coming out with the most Snowboard medals and the USA with the most Freestyle Skiing. There was quite a spread of medals, with seventeen nations claiming at least one.

This was the first World Championships in which the FIS included Slopestyle. That competition is already set to be a part of the senior 2015 FIS World Championships (in Kreichsberg). Following Slopestyle’s huge success at the X-Games, there is now talk of a FIS World Cup series dedicated to it.

Snowboard Big Air

Men – Petja Piiroinen (Finland). Women – Enni Rukajarvi (Finland)

Snowboard Halfpipe

Men Taku Hitaoka (Japan). Women – Cilka Sadar (Slovakia)

Snowboard Slopestyle

Men – Staale Sandbech (Norway). Women – Enni Rukajarvi (Finland)

Snowboard Cross

Men – Nikolay Olyunin (Russia). Eva Samkova (Czech)

Snowboard Parralel Slalom

Men – Dmitriy Bazanov. Women – Sabine Schoeffmann (Austria)

Snowboard Parallel Giant Slalom

Men – Edwin Coratti (Italy). Women – Annamri Chundak (Ukraine)

Freestyle Halfpipe

Men – Noah Bowman (Canada). Women – Brita Sigourney (USA)

Freestyle Slopestyle

Men – Bobby Brown (USA). Jamie Crane-Mauzy (USA)

Skier Cross

Men – Didrick Bastien Juell (Norway). Women – Fanny Smith (Switzerland)

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