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Etnies European Open
11 13 June 2004
Munich, Germany
Fredrik Austbo from Norway takes it again!
For the 7th time Etnies European Open took place in the Iceskatingarea in
the Olympicparc in Munich. IOU has provided an excellent streetcourse with a
skateable wooden car which was suppose to be a Lamborghini but looked like
a Hummer, but at least you could backside 180 that thing like Chris Pfanner
did and won one part of the Best Trick, the other Best Tricks were backside
nosebluntslide on the hubba by Petr Horvart and backside nosebluntslide on
the rail by Charles Collet.
Prequalification was scheduled for Friday and more than 120 youngsters tried
their luck. Saturday was qualification day. Many known names of European
skateboarders showed up, even Tony Silva from the USA and Avi Luzia from
Israel dropped in. From the 90 competitors two were going straight to the
Finals, this time in Munich Akim Cherif from France and Fredrik Austbo from
Norway were the lucky ones. After a long day of too many nice runs of 45
seconds, Schützi has set up an amazing party at the Praterinsel, where
everybody danced until the morning lights. Scandalous pictures soon
available on Louisa Menkešs site www.partygirlproductions.tk
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Again the sun rose too early for the semifinals on Sunday. 30 skateboarders
made the cut from the qualification. Philip Schuster had an amazing run with
switch 360 flips, backside lipslides and tailslides on the hubba, Killian
Heuberger did switch frontside 270flips and Conhuir Lynn was a pleasure to
watch with his nice and big 360flips in the semifinals.
The boys had a break and it was time for the girlšs jam. Twelve girls were
competing with an introduction run of 45 seconds and a five-minute-jam.
Steffi Weiss did frontside backslides at the rail, Rodi Munzel was all over
the course, Juliana Marinko was the most technical one, but place number one
went to Sabrina Goggel, who did nice 360flips over the hip.
Munich local Tobias Albert was flying high in the finals and landed on the
third place. Fabian Neugebauer-current German champion- placed second with
nice 360flips and first place again went to 16-year old Fredrik Austbo from
Norway.
Many Thanks to Etnies, Holy Sport Distribution, Quiksilver, Eastpak, Monster
Skateboard Magazine, YOZ and Amy from Nixon - for an official time keeping.
Photos by Eric Antoine
For further information:
monika.bocian@skateboardeurope.com
Phn.: +49 30 265 570 11
www.skateboardeurope.com
Other Etnies events this year:
25-27 June 2004
Etnies Bowlmasters, Brixlegg, Austria
The Cradle
www.skateTHEcradle.com
20- 22 August 2004
European Skateboard Championships Basel, Switzerland
vert, miniramp/bowl, street, girlšs jam
Kunsteisbahn, St. Margarethen
www.skateboardeurope.com
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