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Local athletes win freeskiing competition

Byline:
Aspen Daily News Staff Writer

Two Aspen skiers earned top spots at the recent Subaru Jackson Hole Freeskiing Open.

Emily Teague and Mark Welgos of Aspen both skied well enough on the challenging Jackson Hole terrain to win their respective divisions in the contest, which was held last weekend.

Teague put forth a technically consistent run during the finals, which landed her in first position going into the super final rounds, according to a press release from contest organizers at Mountain Sports International.

“(Sunday) was just awesome,” Teague said in the statement. “These conditions were just amazing, the best I could imagine. Really, I just got out there and had fun!”

Welgos led the men’s field going into the finals and skied technical lines throughout the final and super final rounds, which won him the title.

“Today was a blast. I got off to a bit of a tough start after getting snagged by a surprise tree branch on my first run, but I managed to hang on for the lead going into the super final,” said Welgos. “And the super final run went exactly as I planned.”

Conditions were good in Jackson Hole for the contest, according to competition judge Dion Newport.

“The level of skiing at Jackson Hole this weekend has been phenomenal,” Newport said. “I can’t even recall the numbers of huge laid-out back flips I saw … I lost count after a while.”

The Subaru U.S. Freeskiing Tour continues this weekend at Snowbird.

Live Webcast of the final and super final rounds at Jackson will be rebroadcast on www.usfreeskiing.com [1] beginning at 10 a.m. on Friday, March 21, and re-broadcast at 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday.


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[1] http://www.usfreeskiing.com