Sofia Hosts Big Air Snowboard World Cup

News.bg, Nov 30, 2007

One of the most attractive for the winter season and first by its kind event for Bulgaria is the World Snowboard Cup in ‘Big Air' discipline.
The competition will take place in Bulgaria's capital, ‘Kniaz Aleksander I' square on December 22, whiteroom.info reported.

Special loading platform with impressive sizes will be constructed for the purpose. The platform will be 31 m high, 100 m long, 25 m wide.

Its building and snow covering will take 10 days - from December 10 - till 21st. The dismantlement should be finished until December 27.

Round 300 tons of snow (600 cubic meters) is foreseen for the platform.

Sixty competitors from 15 countries applied for participation in the championship. Bulgaria will be presented by Mario Benio, Dimiter Chokoev and Asen Lipov.

World famous snowboard stars like Risto Mattila (Finland), Stefan Gimpl (Austria), Peetu Piiroinen (Finaland) and others will join the snow event in the heart of Bulgaria's capital.