FRIDAY JANUARY 18, 2008 LAAX, SWITZERLAND. Risto Mattila continued his incredible climb back to the top or the TTR World Snowboard Tour rankings with a solid 7th place finish in the European Open superpipe finals today. Antti Autti also finished 12th and moved up to 16th place in the overall rankings. For the ladies Clair Bidez finished 8th in the Superpipe finals.

Also notable is Flow moving past DC in the men’s TTR Brand rankings into the #2 position by virtue of having 5 riders in the top 25 overall rankings: Risto (1st) Tim Humphreys (9th) Antti (16th) Scotty Lago (17th) and Jeremy Thompson (22nd).

Next up is the X Games with Flow having five riders invited and the return of Scotty Lago from his torn rib cage injury..... Stay tuned folks this is going to get interesting!

Burton European Open Halfpipe Top Ten Results – Men

1.    Kevin Pearce (USA) Burton
2.    Shaun White (USA) Burton
3.    Peetu Piiroinen (FIN) Burton
4.    Iouri Podladtchikov (SUI) Santa Cruz
5.    Andy Finch (USA) Rip Curl
6.    Keir Dillon (USA) Burton
7.    Risto Mattila (FIN) Flow
8.    Mason Aguirre (USA) Burton
9.    Markus Keller (SUI) Nitro
10.    Markku Koski (FIN) Quiksilver

Burton European Open Halfpipe Top Ten Results - Women

1.    Kelly Clark (USA) Burton
2.    Torah Bright (AUS) Roxy
3.    Hannah Teter (USA) Burton
4.    Charyl Maas (NED) Volcom
5.    Linn Haug (NOR) Burton
6.    Manuela Laura Pesko (SUI) FTwo
7.    Sina Candrian (SUI) Burton
8.    Clair Bidez (USA) Flow
9.    Jamie Anderson (USA) Salomon
10.    Queralt Castellet (SPA) Atomic

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