Page 16, April 4, 1979 - North Shore News

Sports.

What a weekend |

_ Dominating World Freestylers

The “Quebec Air
Force” swept through
North Vancouver on
the weekend and took
off with the top three
positions in the men’s
aerial competition, the
‘most spectacular of the
three. freestyle skiing
events at the World
Cup~ championship on
Grouse Mountain. -_

For one of the “Force”,

‘_Jokm Eaves, 26 of Montreal,

the competition at Grouse
which was the final World
Cup Freestyle event of the
season, was where he
clinched the World Cup
overall points title for the
third straight year.

Eaves -had already cap-
tured the combined title
before coming to Grouse,
but that did- not stop him
taking second place in the

_ aerial event, Sunday, behind

Jean Corrivean, a 20-year-
old from Quebec City.
Fellow Quebecer, Pierre
Poaliz, the third member of
the “Air Force” took third
place.

The aerial event Sunday,
although it was the one that
drew the crowds, with a
dazzling array of triple

Garhammer of

somersaults and back flips,
was only one of three events
that made up the com-
petition.

Friday was the moguls and
Saturday was the ballet
event. Both were dominated
by European and American
skiers.

Nano Pourtler of France
won the moguls, with
another European, Franz
West
Germany, placing second.
Franz's older brother Ernst
Garhammer won the men’s
ballet with American skiers
taking every position from
second to seventh. The
winers of both these events
were’ skiers who had
specialized in that particular
aspect of freestyle skiing.

Stephanie Sloan of,
Toronto skied her way to the
overall World Cup title for
women, placing second in
the aerials behind Lea
Hiligren of the U.S., and
also taking third in the
moguls.

Engisch of the
U.S. won the women's
moguls and another
American, Janene Bucher,
danced her way to the
women’s ballet title.

Greg Athans of Kelowna,
who had given Eaves stiff

competition for the com-
bined points title in 1977 and
1978 was unable to compete
-in the aerials because of a
severe shoulder injury
sustained at Bromont,
Quebec in February. Athazs
who was still feeling the
effects of the injury at
Grouse managed to take
third place in the moguls and

' also competed in the ballet

event. .
. Approximately 80
freestyle skiers competed in
the events over the weekend

for a total of $25,000 in prize

money.

A spokesman for Grouse
Mountain says skiers
described the location as the
best on the tour, and snow
conditions and weather were
called “unbelievable”. .

An estimated 15,500
people trekked up Grouse to
watch the events on the
weekend. Almost _ half
turned up on Sunday to
watch the aerial skiing.

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FLYING FOR THE JUDGES, Jeff Chumas

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of Utah ts carefully watched during the

Aerials competition on Grouse last weekend. The event was won by Jean Corriveau

of Quebec. (Ian Smith photo)

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