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Burton U.S. Open 2016
Burton U.S. Open 2016
The second of three jumps of the Burton U.S. Open Slopestyle course bears the name of the world famous ski town that has hosted the annual event since it moved to Colorado from Vermont.
The U.S. Open features two events: Slopestyle and Superpipe. The course also features an athlete’s lounge that, unlike other competitions, gave riders a premium view of both event sites.
Members of Burton cheer on participants in the women’s Slopestyle final on Friday morning.
Women’s second place winner Karly Shorr rises above the final jump of the Slopestyle course on the run that put her in second position.
Women’s Slopestyle winner Jamie Anderson rides in on a victory lap (she secured the win before dropping in for her final attempt). It was Anderson’s 7th Slopestyle win at the U.S. Open.
Jamie Anderson and Karly Shorr embrace just before the winners are announced. X Games Oslo women’s snowboard Big Air winner Cheryl Maas rounded out the top three.
A large crowd gathers Friday afternoon to watch the men’s Slopestyle final at the 2016 Burton U.S. Open in Vail, Colo.
Men’s Slopestyle winner Kyle Mack put an exclamation point on his breakout season. He debuted at X Games Aspen and took part in all three Air+Style tour stops, winning 2nd place in L.A. He can now add Burton U.S. Open champ to that list.
Eric Beauchemin competed wearing his lucky Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles one-piece. The gesture was well received: Eric took second in the Slopestyle event and was given a full pizza pie after his final run.
Sebastien Toutant continued a successful 2016 season, finishing third and rounding out the podium.
Fellow competitors Yuki Kadono, Eric Beauchemin and others congratulate Kyle Mack on his victory. Mack earned the 89.75 that won him the event on his first run and it stuck the rest of the way, but he had to sit, watch and hope no one would best him as he did not land successfully again on his final two runs.
Mack, 18, was given a bottle of apple cider to celebrate with, but no bottle opener. That and his position in the middle of the podium made him an easy target for Toutant and Beauchemin, both of whom are of age.
The snowboards belonging to the superpipe riders littered the area outside of the athlete’s lounge on Saturday morning before the women’s final.
An employee of the Burton U.S. Open preps the pipe for competition, throwing coolant on the side of the walls to battle the unusually high temperatures that have become the trademark of winter this season in Colorado.
Spectators amuse themselves on the snow steps that lead up the left side of the superpipe wall, racing down on their backsides.
Arielle Gold has had a strong season in 2015-16, but she just missed the podium at the Burton U.S. Open. Her highest score of 75.87 was less than four points behind third place winner Kelly Clark.
Kelly Clark has come out of the Burton U.S. Open Superpipe a winner eight times in her illustrious career, but she settled for third over the weekend.
Xuetong Cai takes the silver with a run that displays amplitude, style and technique. There is only one rider better than her in the field on this day...
...That is 15-year-old Chloe Kim, who has taken her riding to the next level this season. Since the end of January, Kim has won superpipe events at two X Games (Aspen, Oslo), a Grand Prix event (Mammoth) and now the U.S. Open. She won at the last two mentioned stops with back-to-back 1080s, which only she has ever done in competition.
The trio of winners from the women’s Superpipe final from left to right: Clark, Kim and Cai.
This fan was so enamored by the warm temperatures that he opted to go topless while waiting for the men’s Superpipe final to begin. He was not alone.
14-year-old Judd Henkes steals the show over the weekend in Vail. His win against other members of the next generation of riders in the Junior Jam qualified Henkes for the semifinals of both main events. He finished 27th out of 31 riders in Slopestyle but finished fifth in the Superpipe final.
Two-time X Games snowboard SuperPipe champion Danny Davis competing in the finals at the 2016 Burton U.S. Open. Davis finished eighth among a very stacked lineup of riders.
Start them early: A spectator shares a father-daughter moment with his child during the final stages of the Burton U.S. Open.
Taku Hiraoka takes third place in the men’s snowboard final behind Ben Ferguson and Shaun White.
Ben Ferguson soars through the air on his third and final run of the Superpipe final. After falling deep into his first two runs, the man known as Ben Ferg executes his third to perfection, earning him the second spot.
Ferguson falls into the crowd during the final hit of his final run. He’d earn a score of 88.62, barely pushing him ahead of third but a distant second to White.
Non-competing riders poaching runs in between rounds are classic scenes at the Burton U.S. Open. Here, Chas Guldemond and Hannah Teter take their turns through the pipe between the second and final rounds.
After a disappointing showing in the Slopestyle final, Shaun White asserts his dominance in the Superpipe. All three of his runs were nostalgic of Shaun’s past success at the U.S. Open. This was his sixth Superpipe win at the competition.
White would win the event for the sixth time in his career with a score of 95.62. White’s amplitude and trick selection took fans that know his career back to the days of the “Flying Tomato.”
Shaun White puts the finishing touches on the 2016 Burton U.S. Open. His final run, a victory lap like Jamie Anderson’s and Chloe Kim’s, is the final competitive act of the weekend.
