Torquato Testa is 4th. Watch the replay of the spectacular Slopestyle race on Red Bull TV.
Source: press release
The Crankworx World Tour has started. Big party was supposed to be and big party was this weekend in Rotorua, New Zealand. Three out of three for Brett Rheeder in the main race, the slopestyle one. The 26-year-old Canadian confirms himself as the king of the Skyline Rotorua Gravity Park, which had already seen him triumph in 2015 and 2018. In the inaugural stage of the world circuit in which the best two-wheel tightrope walkers compete, he defeated the competition thanks to a run that it was worth 93.75 points. «I feel relieved, this success pays off all the training and hard work. I made the most of the practice sessions and respected the plans I had in mind during the race. Time has assisted us.
The Triple Crown (which he would win if he won all three stages scheduled this year, ed) is too much pressure, which I don't want to think about. We will see how the next events will go »commented the winner.
The good tests of the French Tomas Lemoine and the Swede Alex Alanko could do nothing against his spectacular tricks, who had to settle for the second and third step of the podium. Fourth closed our Torquato “Toto” Testa, 13th Diego Caverzasi.
The two Azzurri will be able to make a comeback in the next stages of the Crankworx World Tour, scheduled in June in Innsbruck, Austria, and in August in Whistler, Canada.
Even the tests of have not disappointed the expectations of the fans Downhill. In the men's field victory on the wire for the New Zealander Brook MacDonald, who managed to precede the Canadian Finn Iles by 0.09 seconds. To complete the podium, enclosed in half a second, another local rider, George Brannigan.
Among the women the best was the Australian Tracey Hannah who easily got the better of the New Zealander Kate Weatherly and the English Tahnée Seagrave, third.
