Christine Hargin is the Freeride World Champion
From FreerideWorldTour.com:
Top ladies were charging hard on the lookers right side of the Bec des Rosses, with beautiful line choices. The top 3 female skiers Christine Hargin (SWE), Eva Walkner (AUT) and Angel Collinson (USA), rode “men’s lines” as judge Martin Winkler put it. Swede Christine Hargin won with a spectacular line; fast, no hesitation and stomping several jumps, including a huge cliff at the bottom. Just perfect. Hargin was totally unaware of her chances of winning the World Champion title and was blown away! On top of it she took over the title from her older sister Janette Hargin (Winner of the Xtreme and World Champion 2011)! Eva Walkner skied as aggressively and hard as Christine and took a well-earned second place putting her in second on the overall ranking, tied with Angel Collinson. Judges gave her less points than Christine as some parts of the run were not as clean as her Swedish contender, with a back slap in her last jump. But these two girls put the bar high today!
Christine Hargin - 2nd place at the Swatch Freeride World Tour in Fieberbrunn 2012
Watch Christine Hargin's run that gave her the second spot at the Swatch Freeride World Tour Fieberbrunn 2012.
Christine Hargins seasonreview
I just want to add some pictures from the winter and give a big thanks to K2 being part of my season!
This winter my goal was to take part in the Freeride World Tour and I ended up with two podiums and place 4 in the tour.
The biggest achievements was of course the experience to participate in Verbier Extreme and the second place in the contest.
Lately I have been filming with the Swedish ski movie Free Radicals, first time filming and it has been challenging and fun!
The movie has premiere this fall. . .
Pictures from filming in Engelberg
Back in Sweden again and during spring I'm skiing with friends in Åre and also trying to learn to skate and snowboard
In May I'll travel up north to Riksgränsen to compete in the annual Scandinavian Big Mountain Championship.
Cheers Christine
Christine Hargin in the Alps Part 2
Last days in Engelberg I was recovering from the crashes, me and Matilda with our minor injuries!
Then we drove forward to see another place and meet up with my sister Janette and the last days of the trip were sunny and great. Janette is the best person to ski with at the moment since she's the leader of the Freeride World Tour at the moment and she always rocks!
We were skiing in Hochfugen in Austria, a really fun place with a lot of opportunity's. We were hiking and got some really good runs and some photos I think!
And of course some crashes, seems like I'm good at that...
In the end we drove back to Penzberg and the K2 office to leave the car back, god a really enjoyed driving around in the X1, big thanks to K2 and BWM.
Next goal for the season is the Nendaz Freeride in March. Now I will rest and do some work back home in Stockholm.
Christine
Christine Hargin’s BMW X1 Road Trip in the alps
Photographer Hannes Söderlund and me arrived in Munich and our journey has officially begun. We started of by visiting the K2 European head office in Pensberg fore some look around and to lend the BMW X1.
Our first stop was Fiebergrbunn for the Freeride World Tour Qualifier. Once we arrived we went up for some warm up skiing, but the day ended up with an avalanches experoence. Everything went fine except for a broken sidestach ski... Lucky us! When we came back to the village we got the message that the competition was cancelled because of bad weather forecast and snow conditions. Not much to do but accept the facts...
After that we drove to the small place next to Fieberbrunn St. Jakop for some photo shoot in the forest and fog! We tried to do the best of it.
Then it was time for the next comp. So we drove to St. Moritz for the Freeride World Tour Qualifier Engadin Snow. That was a fun experience, except from the fact that I crashed in the very end of my run, I tumbled two laps in the last landing. So that was that... So I didn't qualify for the classic huge face courvach
The weather was perfect and it was fun to be at a comp again. Hopefully I will have better luck next time!
Right now I'm in Engelberg! I have a lot of friends here and I really enjoy the time here. I have tried my first really rocker skis, Obsethed so much fun. Yesterday I unfortunately nocked my chin right in the knee, so my knee looks like a football today and I have first day of from skiing since the trip started. Hopefully back on snow again tomorrow and then Hannes and me gonna try to make some nice pictures!
The slogan of the car feels right for us!
Christine Hargin
