World Rookie Fest 2022: Huge result for team France

During the Rail Jam session, that was located at the Snowpark20, all the athletes showed an impressive riding. It was a fun moment and the victory went down to Ian Matteoli as the Best Rider, and Alex Lotorto with the Best trick of the night.

Stunning level also during the slopestyle Big Finals. In the Rookie Men category French ripper Romain Allemand stomped a huge run formed by cab360 in switch blunt 270 out on the first rail, switch backside 1260 and frontside 1440 in the kicker line, 50-50 backside rodeo out in the last obstacle. Follow in the ranking Alex Lotorto (SUI) and Julien Merken (FRA).

About the Grom Men category, Ville Jukola (FIN) stomped his run and take the victory with a frontflip lip to fakie, cab 900, frontside 1080, 50-50 frontside 540 out. Follow him Nicola Galli (ITA) and Roahan Duncan (GBR).

About the girls podium, in the Rookie category Finnish Telma Särkipaju grab the victory with a perfect run composted of cab 180 backside blunt 270 out, frontside 720, backside 720, 50-50 backside 360 out. Andrina Salis from Switzerland and Heli Bockhorni from Germany got the other podium positions.

In the girls grom category, Vanessa Volopichovà from Czech Republic stomped this run: frontside 180 switch bluntslide on the first obstacle, frontside 360 on the first kicker, backside 360 on the second one, 50-50 frontside 1890 out on the last rail. Follow her in the second position Amber Fennel from Great Britain and Olivie Pouchovà from Czech Republic, in third position.

In 17 years of this incredible event, for the first time the Best Snowboard Team has been France and all them gain an invitation for the world finals of the stunning new brand event "Red Bull Hammers with Homies" that will take place in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy.

Riders won lot of huge prizes: Surf Camps in Spain offered by www.surftolive.com, many prizes from sponsors Nitro, Volkl, Marker, TSG, Jail Jam, Boardriding.com. Last but not least, all snowboarders on the podium will be qualified for the World Rookie Finals 2022 in Kitzsteinhorn, Zell Am See-Kaprun!

Livigno, where every experience makes you grow

We all needed that Perfect Week where friendship, good vibes and passion for our sport was our only thought. The World Rookie Fest is exactly this and during these days, we had great times together.

World Rookie Tour staff thanks all the sponsors for making it possible and to make dreams reality. In these days, we definitely saw the future stars of snowboarding! Don’t believe it?

Please watch for yourself all the winning runs from the winners of Livigno - all the videos can be viewed below.

All the pictures of these days are available on the World Rookie Tour Facebook Fanpage. Please follow the links below:

Photo Credits: Ania Gzerla

Video Credits: Silvio Ottonello, Federico Romanello, Daniele Teodorosi

The World Rookie Tour is organized by Black Yeti company in collaboration with National and International Sports Associations and it is made possible by Red Bull, Völkl, Marker, Union Bindings, TSG Protection, Level Gloves, Surftolive.com, Jail Jam, Elle-Erre Easy Flag, Nitro Snowboards, and Moon. You can follow the World Rookie Tour on our international media partners Sequence Magazine, Boardriding.com, Prime Snowboarding, Prime Skiing, Sourge Skateboarding, and Quattro Media.

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ABOUT WORLD ROOKIE TOUR

The World Rookie Tour is organized by the Black Yeti ssrl in collaboration with World Snowboard Federation, National Snowboard, Ski and Skateboard Associations, and selected action sports agencies. It was born in 2005 as a series of youth snowboard events and it consists now of a selection of high-quality International events for snowboard, Freeski, Skateboard and Surf, the so-called "Rookie Fests", reserved for riders under 18's only, in Europe, North and South America, Oceania and Asia. The World Rookie Tour consists not only of competitions: it also features loads of other activities to help rookies to grow in the field of professional action sports, such as photo & video shootings, avalanche, and rescue clinics, meetings with photographers, and international team managers, parties and English talks. Since year zero, it awards tickets to world-class events such as X Games Norway, Audi Nines, The Arctic Challenge, The Air & Style, The World Snowboarding Championships, Red Bull Roller Coaster, Simple Session, Mystic Sk8 Cup, invitations to professional photo & video shootings, and shooting trip all around the world. Every year the tour crowns the World Rookie Champions at the end of the season, during the World Rookie Finals, a unique event format where the best youngsters from almost 30 countries compete and have fun. More information at www.worldrookietour.com.

The Black Yeti is an amateur sports club dedicated to the realization of Snowboard, Freeski, Skateboard and Surf projects for boys and girls up to 18 years of age, at international level. One of the most successful projects is the World Rookie Tour, the biggest and the most famous tour in the action sports world that attracts 3.000 young athletes from 30 nations to the events called "Rookie Fest", organized all over the world: Italy, Europe, North and South America, Oceania and Asia. The Rookie Fests program includes not only the competition but also many side activities such as avalanche and rescue clinics, workshops, and English talks.

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