Snowboard Park & Pipe World Cup season set for epic ender in Silvaplana
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Guseli has four World Cup podiums on the season, including a big air win, two halfpipe seconds and a slopestyle second, making him the first rider in FIS Snowboard Park & Pipe World Cup history to podium in all three events in a single season. Guseli already claimed the big air crystal globe back in January, and when you throw in a Bakuriani 2023 halfpipe silver medal and a third-place finish at the 2023 X Games in Aspen, and you’ve got one of the most mind-blowingly successful competition seasons in snowboard history.
And did we mention he’s just 17-years-old?
Guseli’s 440 points puts him 126 clear of halfpipe ruder Ruka Hirano (JPN), and 144 in front of Henricksen ahead of the start of competition here in Silvaplana, and there’s every possibility those totals are even greater by the time the season comes to a close on Sunday.
While it seems pretty clear that it’s going to be Henricksen and Guseli walking away with the trophy’s on Sunday, there’s a whole lot of additional firepower here in Silvaplana looking to grab one last podium spot this season.
The de facto number one name on that list has to be Norway’s Marcus Kleveland, the newly-crowned slopestyle World Champion and two-time, back-to-back winner here in Silvaplana. Kleveland’s only other FIS slopestyle start this season came in Laax back in January and he won that one, too, and when he’s on his game there’s virtually no one in the world who can touch him.
With riders on hand such as the hugely talented Japanese team featuring Bakuriani 2023 slopestyle silver medallist Ryoma Kimata, Bakuriani 2023 big air World Champion Taiga Hasegawa, Takeru Otsuka, Hiroto Ogiwara, Sven Thorgren and William Mathisen of Sweden, Canada’s Liam Brearley and Cameron Spaulding, Bakuriani slopestyle bronze medallist Chris Corning, Sean Fitzsimons and Brock Crouch of the USA, and of course the host Swiss squad with Bakuriani big air bronze medallist Nicolas Huber and Nick Puenter leading the way, the Silvaplana slopestyle World Cup is all set to send the 2022/23 season out with a bang.
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