At the weekend, 43 of the world’s best freeriders tackled the north face of Pramecou for the Nissan Freeride de Tignes, the fourth contest of the Freeride World Tour.

The male snowboarders were first to take on the 400 metre long face. With two pretty intimidating starting options, the riders had first to rappel into the face before starting their run at around 45 degrees steep.

For the snowboarders, two runs really stood out - first and second placed riders Xavier de le Rue (France) and Alex Coudray (Switzerland).

Former boardercross World Champion Xavier de le Rue is well known for ripping down the mountain at great speed, which he proved again in Tignes in a technical run with committed cliff drops, including a double drop at the second part of the run.

“It was really cool today. A good face with very fast riding. I chose to execute a technical run and go for it and it worked out!” said the stoked Frenchman, who is now leading the ranking of the Freeride World Tour with only one contest to go.

Bérengère Moroc secured a French female snowboard victory. She entered the Freeride World Tour in the qualifying series and is now climbing the ranking of the entire tour. 

The grand final of the Freeride World Tour – the Nissan O’Neill Xtreme de Verbier – takes place on March 15.

It takes place on the north face of Bec des Rosses, in the heart of the resort of Verbier. 37 riders will compete - 10 of the best ranked male skiers and snowboarders of the Freeride World Tour, five wild card skiers and two wild cards snowboard, and two of the best ranked female skiers and snowboarders, three wild cards skiers and two wild cards snowboard. Prize money is set at $100,000

You can watch the contest live on Freecaster through the link on the bottom right of the powderroom.net homepage. The action starts at 11.00 CET.

Tignes snowboard results:

Men:
1 - De Le Rue, Xavier - FRA
2 – Coudray, Alex - SUI
3 – Falco, Julien - SUI
4 – Neri, Cyril (Nissan) - SUI
5 – Sommer, André - SUI

Women:
1 – Moroc, Bérengère - FRA
2 – Leisibach, Ruth - SUI
3 – Zenklusen, Nathalie - SUI
4 – Pahl, Elisabeth - RUS
DNS (injured) – PEKAREK, Bibi - AUT