White Style 2013: Promising rider line-up at Leogang

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2013-01-14 17:47
Leogang, Austria, January 9th 2013 – In less than a month Europe’s first slopestyle-summit will take place at Leogang, Austria. At the White Style we will see world-class freeride mountain bike action. February 1st 2013, the day of the White Style’s final will definitively be among the highlight moments of the upcoming season. Check out the YouTube teaser clip to see what is waiting for you at this one-of-a-kind event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAb2nmoRhE8&feature=youtu.be Tons of fresh and compact snow, mirror-like ice, good music and above all, incredible floodlit mountain bike action – these are the most important ingredients for a successful White Style edition. This extraordinary ‘snow-biking’ competition, hosted by Bikepark Leogang attracts the best riders from all over Europe year after year and 2013 won’t be an exception. Alongside Swedish slopestyle royalty (with Martin Soderstrom, Linus Sjoholm, Anton Thelander and Teo Gustavson), the crème-de-la-crème from France will also start. Apart from Antoine Bizet (2nd place at Red Bull Rampage 2012), Louis Reboul and Leo Delfour-Barsaqc have entered the event as well as Mehdi Gani who will be competing for the first time after a long injury-break. From Great Britain, defending champion Sam Reynolds, as well as Sam Pilgrim and Grant “Chopper” Fielder will also leave their cozy island to come and compete at White Style. Niki Leitner and his cousin Patrick Leitner, current FMB World Tour European AM Champion will attempt to return the title into Austrian hands while the aspiring Peter Henke will represent Germany. Young Canadian Matt MacDuff and Russia’s mountain bike pride Pavel Alekhin Vishneviy will also join the Euro showdown. Completing the 11-nation rider line-up is Red Bull Joyride winner Thomas Genon from Belgium, Czech rider Tomas Zejda, Adrian Tell from Norway and the Polish talent Szymon Godziek. All riders are highly motivated to collect the first European FMB World Tour Silver event points as well as to win a chunk of the 7,500€ prize purse. This is the rider line-up at a glance: Niki Leitner AUT Sam Pilgrim GBR Patrick Leitner AUT Sam Reynolds GBR Thomas Genon BEL Peter Henke GER Matt MacDuff CAN Adrian Tell NOR Tomas Zejda CZE Szymon Godziek POL Antoine Bizet FRA Pavel Alekhin Vishneviy RUS Leo Delfour-Barsacq FRA Teo Gustavson SWE Mehdi Gani FRA Linus Sjoholm SWE Louis Reboul FRA Martin Soderstrom SWE Grant Fielder GBR Anton Thelander SWE