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Andreu Lacondeguy wins White Style 2009 in Leogang
by spoiledgoods
Posted: Feb 2, 2009
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Twenty year old Spaniard Andreu Lacondeguy won the White Style presented by Kona on January 30th. Lance McDermott got the “Sickest Trick Award” for his tuck no hand front flip, which was the first time ever at a mountain bike competition.
Twenty year old Spaniard Andreu Lacondeguy won the White Style presented by Kona on January 30th. Lance McDermott got the “Sickest Trick Award” for his tuck no hand front flip, which was the first time ever at a mountain bike competition.
The riders of the White Style presented by Kona had to cope with a super-sized slopestyle course in combination with a soft and snowy surface. Not an easy job for the 23 athletes from 12 nations that made their way to Leogang, Austria. Kona Clump Team rider Grant “Chopper” Fielder designed and built the whole track with just one aim: to enable the riders to go big!
Indeed, the guys just went crazy: Thomas Zejda from the Czech Republic throwing down tailwhips at the starting drop, Amir Kabbani showing off with a backflip x-up one foot the step-up or the Swede Martin Soederstroem pulling clean double tailwhips at the final booter. But Lance McDermott performed the sickest trick. The well-known guy from Manchester threw himself into a tuck nohand-frontflip at the last jump. Unfortunately he didn’t stick it 100% clean, because he slipped both pedals. It was the first tuck nohand-frontflip shown at an international mountain bike competition ever. The whole situation might have remembered Lance of the Whistler Crankworx Slopestyle. It was the same game: Andreu Lacondeguy again put Lance into second place - this time by sending huge flatspin 360’s, real extended superman seat-grabs and backflips up and down the “inabler” (step-up-step-down box).
“Man, I love those doubles. Chopper made a great job! That’s the way they should be: BIG! I hope most of this year’s comps will go even bigger than last season. The progression has to go on. We ride mountain bikes, not BMX bikes. We need huge jumps at least 10 meters + in distance!” said Andreu.
Amir Kabbani (3rd place), Martin Soederstroem (4th) and last year’s White Style winner Trond Hansen from Norway (5th) also showed great tricks like opposite 360’s, frontflips, 360-tailwhips, superman seat-grabs or 360 drops.
The results:
1st Andreu Lacondeguy (ESP / Kona)
2nd Lance Mc Dermott (GBR / Scott)
3rd Amir Kabbani (GER / Cannondale)
4th Martin Soederstroem (SWE / NS Bikes)
5th Trond Hansen (NOR / Specialized)
6th Grant Fielder (GBR / Kona)
7th Yannick Granieri (FRA / Giant)
8th Sam Pilgrim (GBR / Diamondback)
9th Damian Siriski (CZE / Author)
10th Niki Leitner (AUT / Kona)
All the riders rode hard, showing their skills on the tricky surface, and partied even harder. The official White Style presented by Kona after party ended at five o’clock in the morning and some of the athletes even still had the energy to party on in their hotel.
The Bikepark Leogang, KONA, CamelBak and ONE BIG PARK are proud to have presented Europe’s best riders, a lot of airtime, the newest tricks, as well as a rocking party.
Watch out for the official White Style presented by Kona video clip that is being edited by Boston Joy Productions right now and will be available mid of next week.
About the Bikepark Leogang and ONE BIG PARK:
All information about the Bikepark Leogang, the range of tracks and services, as well as the upcoming events in 2009, please visit: www.bikepark-leogang.com
With its new youth brand ONE BIG PARK, the SalzburgerLand now offers young people a wide variety of opportunities and specials for a truly exciting vacation. In winter, snowboarders and free-skiers alike can have the most fun imaginable in perfectly shaped parks with kickers, corners and rails. In summer, the wide range of options for mountaineering, biking and freesports promises virtually boundless ways to get out and about in this fantastic natural setting. Locations and special events, our top youth-focused hotels and attractive vacation packages, along with the locals’ very best insider tips, are all available online at www.onebigpark.at
Indeed, the guys just went crazy: Thomas Zejda from the Czech Republic throwing down tailwhips at the starting drop, Amir Kabbani showing off with a backflip x-up one foot the step-up or the Swede Martin Soederstroem pulling clean double tailwhips at the final booter. But Lance McDermott performed the sickest trick. The well-known guy from Manchester threw himself into a tuck nohand-frontflip at the last jump. Unfortunately he didn’t stick it 100% clean, because he slipped both pedals. It was the first tuck nohand-frontflip shown at an international mountain bike competition ever. The whole situation might have remembered Lance of the Whistler Crankworx Slopestyle. It was the same game: Andreu Lacondeguy again put Lance into second place - this time by sending huge flatspin 360’s, real extended superman seat-grabs and backflips up and down the “inabler” (step-up-step-down box).
“Man, I love those doubles. Chopper made a great job! That’s the way they should be: BIG! I hope most of this year’s comps will go even bigger than last season. The progression has to go on. We ride mountain bikes, not BMX bikes. We need huge jumps at least 10 meters + in distance!” said Andreu.
Amir Kabbani (3rd place), Martin Soederstroem (4th) and last year’s White Style winner Trond Hansen from Norway (5th) also showed great tricks like opposite 360’s, frontflips, 360-tailwhips, superman seat-grabs or 360 drops.
The results:
1st Andreu Lacondeguy (ESP / Kona)
2nd Lance Mc Dermott (GBR / Scott)
3rd Amir Kabbani (GER / Cannondale)
4th Martin Soederstroem (SWE / NS Bikes)
5th Trond Hansen (NOR / Specialized)
6th Grant Fielder (GBR / Kona)
7th Yannick Granieri (FRA / Giant)
8th Sam Pilgrim (GBR / Diamondback)
9th Damian Siriski (CZE / Author)
10th Niki Leitner (AUT / Kona)
All the riders rode hard, showing their skills on the tricky surface, and partied even harder. The official White Style presented by Kona after party ended at five o’clock in the morning and some of the athletes even still had the energy to party on in their hotel.
The Bikepark Leogang, KONA, CamelBak and ONE BIG PARK are proud to have presented Europe’s best riders, a lot of airtime, the newest tricks, as well as a rocking party.
Watch out for the official White Style presented by Kona video clip that is being edited by Boston Joy Productions right now and will be available mid of next week.
About the Bikepark Leogang and ONE BIG PARK:
All information about the Bikepark Leogang, the range of tracks and services, as well as the upcoming events in 2009, please visit: www.bikepark-leogang.com
With its new youth brand ONE BIG PARK, the SalzburgerLand now offers young people a wide variety of opportunities and specials for a truly exciting vacation. In winter, snowboarders and free-skiers alike can have the most fun imaginable in perfectly shaped parks with kickers, corners and rails. In summer, the wide range of options for mountaineering, biking and freesports promises virtually boundless ways to get out and about in this fantastic natural setting. Locations and special events, our top youth-focused hotels and attractive vacation packages, along with the locals’ very best insider tips, are all available online at www.onebigpark.at
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snook
(Feb 2, 2009 at 13:16)
First! And well done Andreu 
To be honest non of the other riders stood a chance lacondeguy is mentall. Dont get me wrong though theyre all top riders but not quite the same leauge as andreu 
he probaly ment 2nd refering to lnace cuz he pulled a frontflip no hander and didnt win. lac isisnt the best tho,he didnt deserve c worx he only won vuz his double flip,and then lance throws the biggest trick and doesnt win lance is getting robbed by the judges lol.
In all fairness though, you weren't there, andreu might have pulled a more complete run, and Lance might've just relied on his tuck flip, you never know, we'll find out when the vid is released
Clearly sam hill deserved to win this one.
he is without a doubt the worlds best rider
and i dont even see him in the top 10??
he is without a doubt the worlds best rider
and i dont even see him in the top 10??
^^^ its ovious you are trying to be tootaly irrelevant to this comp.but why,why bother saying sam hill should of won,why?
sweet article andreu is an awsome rider and sick front filp no hander fome mcdermot.look forward to the vid 
Prps to Andrew but this seems to be a regular occurence. Lance clearly should have won Crankworx, same with this. Dunno about you guys but I see it as favoritism. Although Andreu has his moves dialled Lance clearly has better technical skill. Just a thought :-)
hmm i think if he had landed the tuck no hander front flip clean he would of won but he probably lost points for that
but yh he is an awesome rider
but yh he is an awesome rider
Yeah, judges are always biased towards the NWD boys. Not this comp in particular cause lance messed the frontie, but overall the guys with the most inovative tricks like McDermott or Greg Watts never won the competitions, it seems like people rather see the same tricks all year round, and don't care about the guys that truly progress the sport by bringing new moves.
the sponsors of CW and White style are Kona wait a minute Andreu ride a kona !!!
he shouldn't won CW Lance went through an awesome run incredibly clean
and Andreu crashed 2 times his double backflip
I think tricks is something but a run nicely put together is good
Well I haven't seen the comp at Leogang then no judging about the judging
But big props to Lance who try to give some progression with new tricks
he shouldn't won CW Lance went through an awesome run incredibly clean
and Andreu crashed 2 times his double backflip
I think tricks is something but a run nicely put together is good
Well I haven't seen the comp at Leogang then no judging about the judging
But big props to Lance who try to give some progression with new tricks
I was speaking to lance at unit 23 adn he was trying front no hands in to foam and this, 3 weeks later he basicall nails it! well done to everyone in the comp!
cdavis and stprider- obviously you've never seen a bmx dj comp...where a superman seat grab and a backflip and a dipped 3' WON'T win the comp...
allsportb10 your wrong because i have seen a bmx dj comp and your Wright but as cdavis said its about the terrain and the size of the obsticals and i dont believe a bmxer not matter how good would be able to ride this course as well as a mtber would
Tbh, some of the stuff I see BMXers do, I really wouldn't be surprised to see one rip the SS courses (or indeed a DH track)...some of them really are that nuts/skilled.
Huge props to to all the riders, congrats to Andreu and Lance for their respective wins
Huge props to to all the riders, congrats to Andreu and Lance for their respective wins
Belive that is was a nice competition.. And congrat Andreu! But like Freddep says. GO SWEDEN!! Go Martin!
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The kid has a big mouth on him......"I hope most of this year's comps will go even bigger than last season. The progression has to go on. We ride mountain bikes, not BMX bikes. We need huge jumps at least 10 meters + in distance!†said Andreu".
that statement just proves the insanity. Its not necessarily a bad thing, it will progress the sport. Skiing and snowboarding went through it too, and now the pros only hit HUGE booters.
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The 30th of January was my last day in Austria before I left. I didn't know about this... :/ I was sooo close to my favorite rider...
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