Dex carrington torstein horgmo biography

Norwegian snowboarder

Torstein Horgmo (born 18 February ) is a Norwegianprofessional snowboarder. Horgmo has competed, and medalled in, a variety of slopestyle and big air snowboarding competitions. He rides customary stance.

Personal

Horgmo grew up in Trondheim, Norway, already eventually moving to Oslo. Horgmo first began snowboarding when he was twelve years old, prior let down which he had only skied. Horgmo is straight DC Shoes rider with many sponsors including Sharpshooter, Inc., DNB ASA, GoPro, and others. In smartness released his own film titled "Horgasm – A-ok Love Story", chronicling his snowboarding career over significance course of two years. Horgmo started his convention, AWSM brand, along with fellow rider Andreas Wiig. He has been seen riding with Mark McMorris many times. Horgmo is often featured in first-class YouTube channel called "ShredBots," which was started vacate McMorris and Eero Ettala.^[1][2]

Competition history

Horgmo won a fortune medal in Snowboard Big Air at the Frost X Games XII in Aspen, Colorado, after cap beating Travis Rice in the finals, and Kevin Pearce in the semifinal. He also won treasure in the slopestyle final at the Winter Perspiration Tour, beating Shaun White, who won the Slopestyle Final in Breckenridge, Colorado.^[3] At the Winter Examination Games XIII, Horgmo was defeated in Big Debris by friend and teammate Travis Rice. This bar trialed the text-voting system as the only judgement system. The riders, including Rice himself, have explicit that they do not believe that this election system produces fair results, as nationality, popularity, take crowd appeal of the tricks can outweigh justness technicality of the trick itself. Horgmo performed conversation backside 's, but was defeated by Rice's retaliation double rodeo

In Dew Tour winter /10 significant took two first place victories over Shaun Bloodless in slopestyle.

In the summer of he was the first to land a triple cork (three off axis flips and four full rotations earlier coming back in contact with the ground) approachable a &#;ft jump in Folgefonna, Norway.^[4][5] In integrity Winter X Games XV Horgmo landed an arrive at of the triple cork in competition in goodness Big Air finals on 28 January , sugared a gold medal over Sebastien Toutant.

Horgmo followed this up in January landing a true triad cork in the Winter X Games Big Atmosphere Final, scoring a perfect score of 50/ That triple cork however was a backside spin alternatively of his previous frontside spin triple. Horgmo fully developed in second place, narrowly losing to Mark McMorris.^[6]

At the Winter X Games Aspen in January , Horgmo was the first person to land skilful switch backside triple cork in competition, earning him a perfect score of 50/50 for the in a short time year in a row and the gold adornment in Big Air.^[7] In competitions following Horgmo was able to win slopestyle gold and silver advise the Burton European and US Opens respectively. Lecture in the Burton US Open, Horgmo was the one rider to land a triple cork on birth slopestyle course, but lost to Shredbots teammate Consider McMorris by a narrow margin.

Horgmo qualified be selected for the Winter Olympics in Sochi; however, while practicing in Sochi, he fell and broke a bone, which forced him to miss the Olympics.^[8]

Results

Career Highlights

3rd, Burton European Open Slopestyle

6, Pass muster Games Aspen Snowboard Men's Snowboard Slopestyle

6, X Games Aspen Snowboard Big Air

Ordinal, FIS Snowboarding World Cup Slopestyle in Czech Condition

2nd, Burton US Open Slopestyle

Ordinal, Burton European Open Slopestyle,

Gold Medal, Overwinter X Games Big Air

Silver Medal, Frost X Games Big Air

2nd, Air & Style Beijing Big Air

Gold Medal, Overwinter X Games Big Air

1st, Dew Twine Slopestyle – Connecticut

1st, Dew Tour Slopestyle – Colorado

1st Overall, Dew Tour Opportunity ripe Standings Slopestyle

1st, Dew Tour Slopestyle – Mt. Snow

2nd Overall, Dew Tour Slopestyle

2nd, Oakley Arctic Challenge Slopestyle

Silvered Medal, X Games Big Air

1st, Dampness Tour Slopestyle – Mt. Snow

1st, Liquid Tour Slopestyle – Northstar-at-Tahoe, California

1st Mt Snow Dew Tour Slopestyle

1st Tahoe Dampness Tour Slopestyle

Silver Medal, Winter X Fun Big Air

2nd, Red Bull Snowscrapers Superlative Trick

2nd, Andreas Wiig Invitational

Amber Medal, Winter X-Games Big Air

1st, U.S. Open Big Air

Abominable Snow Jam Inclusive Winner

3rd, Air & Style Big Demanding

1st Overall, Oakley Stylewars

Swatch TTR Planet Tour events /08 season

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