Travel to Norway to compete in the second round of the FWQ 4* in Sogndal

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Nuria Castán training at Les Arcs (France)
Nuria Castán training at Les Arcs (France)

Nuria Castán, Völkl Snowboard Rider International team, She travel in the day yesterday to the Norwegian city of Bergen to contest the second round 4 * Freeride World Qualifier in Sogndal in a Mecca of Freeride. In this second contest , once again, she will face the best riders on the circuit, many of them competing in the Freeride World Tour (FWT).

The goal is to defend his 7th place in the World Ranking of FWQ and if possible try to improve this classification, would improve 5th position he achieved in Les Arcs 4, being a great success in it’s first participation in a contest of 4 * European Circuit of FWQ.

The contest of Sogndal of 4*, is scheduled for Thursday at 10 am, at a venue/face yet to be decided, the organization already warned that this afternoon at the meeting that there is provided at 19h, they will report the location and exact date of the competition.

The second day is scheduled for Friday 19th, on both days there is a “good weather window” (time slot with open sky and sun), for Saturday is forecast the entry of a snowstorm that has to last the whole is predicted next week.

the venue of the contest, not has communicated although there are different options depending on the day (Thursday or Friday) and the weather forecast for each day.

Regarding snowfall Sogndal area exceeds 180 cm on the top, the temperatures provided for the competition days, Thursday and Friday, will be -4 ° C to -13 ° C.