MADRID, Jan. 26 (SportsFinding) –
The Spanish 'rider' Queralt Castellet made history this Saturday by winning the gold medal in the 'superpipe' test of the X-Games held in the US town of Aspen and confirming its great start to the year.
The Catalan athlete arrived at this event with the reinforced spirit of having achieved victory in the 'halfpipe' modality of the Laax (Switzerland) test of the Snowboard World Cup and in Aspen made it clear that she is willing to live a great year.
Sabadell's was the best of the eight participants who competed in a new format 'jam session' in which, for an hour, the 'riders' were throwing rounds one after the other in search of encouraging creativity to help You see a wider variety of tricks.
As indicated by the communication department of Castellet, it settled firmly in the second place of the podium until the fifth and penultimate round, but in the last, several of its rivals went to the ground, and the Spanish 'rider' did not miss it to iron and improve all your tricks and make the leap to gold.
In this way, the Catalan became the first non-American to win this competition since 2009, while the rest of the podium went to Japan thanks to Kurumi Imai, who was leading until the descent of the winner, and Haruna Matsumoto, silver and bronze respectively.