Best Foot Forward 2024 - Lausanne

The tour stopped for the first time at La Fievre, Lausanne, with 43 participants from 6 nations.

Podium

Men

1st place: Noel Schärer

2nd place: Simon Gerber

3rd place: Marlon Leibundgut

Women

1st place: Noor Crevels

2nd place: Lela Helfenstein

3rd place: Penélope Cremer

Groms

1st place: Julius Christmann

2nd place: Tiago Barcik

3rd place: Alessio Binkert

Our Travel Judge Stefan Ebner comments on the placings as follows:

At the tour stop in Lausanne, Noel was in a class of his own. Starting with a bs disaster in the vert quarter, adding perfectly executed tricks like kickflip crooks on the A-frame ledge or bs 270 lipslide on the A-frame rail, mixing it up with a fakie ollie fakie manual kickflip out, and ending it with a hippie jump for the fun of it he did not leave any room for discussion about first place. Coming in second was Simon with a very well-balanced run throughout the course including a massive 360 Ollie from the A-frame to flat, a beautiful fs flip on the quarter, and a lot of rail tricks like fs crook and kickflip fs bluntslide on the A-frame. For third place, the judges had to weigh Mussie Michael`s more technical skating with a lot of kickflips (for example into fs boardslide and into back lip on the A-frame rail) against Marlon’s more balanced and flowy run. In the end, the decision went in Marlon`s favor for putting together tricks like hurricane and nosebluntslide on the A-frame rail, a big heelflip on the bank to bank and noseslide to crooks as well as noseslide 270 shove-it on the bank to ledge. For women`s first place, it was also a close call between Lela Helfenstein and Noor. Noor took the win with a bit more street-oriented skating including a nice line boardsliding the flat rail going straight into a 50-50 on the ledge mixed with some transfers and quarter tricks.

Here you can find the results of the Qualifiers & Finals

Pictures can be found by tomorrow HERE

credits: Jamal Venuti

Our recap video can be found HERE

We are also happy about the participation of our Blue Tomato Teamrider!

We want to say a big THANK YOU to all skaters, visitors, and partners who came out to Helsinki, and we are looking forward to the next Best Foot Forward Europe tour stop in Velenje on, the 25th of May at Urbani Park Velenje.

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