Snowboard PGS: PBs and Olympic qualifiers to Oppliger and Shaw

AOC19 years ago

Emanuel Oppliger has ridden to the best performances of his career over the weekend, finishing sixth in the second of two snowboard World Cups in Le Relais, Canada.

Emanuel Oppliger has ridden to the best performances of his career over the weekend, finishing sixth in the second of two snowboard World Cups in Le Relais, Canada.

Oppliger, 30, followed up his 13th placing in the opening parallel giant slalom event at the Quebec resort with his first top ten, in just the ninth PGS race of his career.

The performance gave him the three top 60 per cent of field results he needed to qualify for possible selection to the Australian team for Torino 2006.

Team-mate Johanna Shaw also fulfilled the qualifying criteria, riding to a career-best 19th place in the opening World Cup, then collecting another top 25 with 22nd place.

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