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Nuria Castán ends her first season in the FWQ Ranking 9th in Europe and 13th in the World Ranking

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Nuria Castán, Rider del equipo Völkl Snowboards International, finish the season 2015/16 very happy of finals results of competitions and ranking official by the FWQ and eager to start the next season season. It has succeeded in the European Ranking of FWQ 9th position, has made it into the Top 10 and the World Ranking FWQ has achieved the 13th position is a great sporting success bearing in mind that the younger the circuit with 18 years.

Bad lucky for Nuria Castán in Lizum (Austria) and Cortina d’Ampezzo (Italy)

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Nuria Castán, Rider del equipo Völkl Snowboards International, had last weekend the last competitions of the 2.016 season with the longest shift of the season, through four countries, on Saturday had a competition Lizum (Competition 3 *) in the Austrian Tyrol, passing in the journey through France and Switzerland and Sunday was another competition in Cortina d’Ampezzo (Competition 3 *) in the Italian Veneto, on the return trip from Austria went through Italy and France, in the end it was a great effort that ended taking its toll on the Spanish Rider.

Nuria Castán, 4th in St. Foy and scale positions in the World Ranking FWQ

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Nuria Castán, Völkl Snowboard Rider International team, managed a creditable 4th place in Saint Foy (France), on the penultimate weekend of competitions FWQ, the points obtained have allowed her to pull himself from the 9th position in the world ranking of FWQ to the 7th provisional position, which already had during the month of February, only 10 points Petra Schwarz, ranked sixth. The competition was held in a perfect setting, with a sunny day and almost no wind, the only but was snow at the beginning of the competition was tough but not presented problems for descent and as we passed the test snow it was transformed and sweating (spring snow) because spring temperatures that occurred on the day of the competition.

Nuria Castán, on the top of the podium in the Open Faces of Montafon 3 *

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Nuria Castán, Völkl Snowboard Rider International team, She has managed to climb to the top of the podium in his first contest of 3 * in the Freeride World Qualifier in Montafon (Austria). Nuria Castán continues to break records; she’s the first rider in 18 years and a few months and comes from the Junior category (Freeride Junior Tour) who wins a contest of 3 * in the FWQ in her first season, and she has participated in 4 contest and obtained with this first position, three podiums this season (two Seconds and one First).

5th in Les Arcs 4* and 7th Position in World Ranking Freeride World Qualifier

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Nuria Castán, Völkl Snowboard Rider International team, she got this past weekend a great sporting success, to gain entry for the first time in a competition 4 * of the FWQ, but also got a 5th place ranking competition Les Arcs 4*, is a very good climax for trip to France where she has participated in 4 contest of the circuit FWQ, obtaining two 2nd places in both competitions 2 * (Vars, and Les Arcs) and 5th in the last 4 * (Les Arcs).

Another podium for Nuria Castan in her second competition of FWQ, with new second place in Les Arcs (France)

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Nuria Castán, Völkl Snowboard Rider International team, continues to reap wins in her first season in the Freeride World Qualifier (FWQ), after his success in Vars 2 * where he earned second place. This time, it was yesterday, in the French ski resort of Les Arcs, where in her second competition of 2 *, Castán returned to the podium getting another second place, which makes it the first rider of his category (snowboard women) in reach to Qualifier since Junior and get two second positions in her first year in that category.

We continue training despite the postponement of the first competitions of the 2016 Freeride World Qualifier

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This season started well for Nuria Castan, Völkl Snowboards Team Rider International, despite the lack of snow at the beginning of season, fortunately in recent weeks increases in snowfall in the area of ​​the Pyrenees and in particular in near Ordino-Arcalis, they have allowed a few weeks with some spectacular workouts for the quality of the snow and the possibility of off-piste training with maximum guarantees of security for the preparation of competitions in 2016 FWQ.

The Freeride World Qualifier 2016 Lizum (Austria) begins

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Castan season is already about to start, the Freeride World Tour organization, has opened registration for all competitions FWQ (Freeride World Qualifier) ​​Lizum was the first in the Austrian Tyrol, competition 3, will be the first Castan competition that will participate in this category. The following tests will be La Clusaz (France) and Hochfugen (in Austria again), both of 4, for these competitions, Castan participation will depend on the Riders that will be signing up to see if he can finally access or not to same, tests 4 * are the highest level, just below FWT testing. Each competition has a quota for each category causing competitions to 4 * and 3 * only Riders can go the better ranking in the circuit of FWQ.

Nuria Castan enters the ranking of the Freeride World Qualifier in a privileged position.

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Nuria Castan, Rider Team Völkl Snowboards team rider, already knows its starting position in the ranking of the Freeride World Qualifier, after three seasons in the junior category (Freeride Junior Tour), after obtaining the second position last season and being in the final ranking in 2nd position, he has managed to pull himself in 15th with a total of 92 riders in the Freeride World Qualifier 2016.