Anderson Wins Quebec Big Air

QUEBEC CITY, Canada (Feb. 13, 2016) – American Jamie Anderson (South Lake Tahoe, CA) won the ladies’ event at the Snowjamboree, presented by Videotron Mobile, FIS World Cup big air, battling arctic temperatures in downtown Quebec City. Ryan Stassel (Anchorage, AK) was third for the men, scoring his first World Cup big air podium.

For the second time in three days, the big air athletes competed on a man-made scaffolding jump - heading north from Boston’s Fenway Park to Quebec City. This time Anderson won the competition in dominant fashion, beating second-place Katie Ormerod of Great Britain by more than 50 points. Spain’s Queralt Castellet rounded out the podium in third.

Jamie Anderson soars over downtown Quebec City during Saturday night’s Snowjamboree FIS World Cup big air. (Snowjamboree- Andr-Olivier Lyra)

“I think the event tonight was awesome,” Anderson said after the competition. “It was really, really cold with our arctic front, but we are winter athletes so we got to perform in crazy weather and I’m just stoked.”

Jamie Anderson throws a huge frontside 720.

Julia Marino (Westport, CT), who won the Big Air at Fenway, was seventh.

For the men, Max Parrot of Canada took home his second big air World Cup win in three days on the jump he helped to design. His fellow countryman Tyler Nicholson was second and Stassel, who competed for the US in slopestyle at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, finished a respectable third.

Brett Moody (Anchorage, AK) took seventh while Brandon Davis (Mammoth Lakes, CA) was 25th.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Jamie Anderson won. Her best two jumps scored 178.75: Cab underflip, frontside 720 mute.
• Ryan Stassel was third. His best two jumps scored 175.50. It was his first FIS World Cup big air podium.
• The Jamboree presented by Videotron Mobile was the second and last FIS World Cup big air event of the 2015-16 season.

Ryan Stassel takes third in Quebec.

QUOTES

Jamie Anderson
I think the event tonight was awesome. It was really, really cold with our arctic front, but we are winter athletes so we got to perform in crazy weather and I’m just stoked. It’s been an opportunity to get out and come to a new city for me and I’m just so happy. I was able to put down my runs and win. I knew I had won when I went in for my final try, but I wanted to do that for myself.

RESULTS
Women’s big air
Men’s big air