Motorola ISF Boardercross World-Champions 1999/2000 are:
Ine POETZL (AUT/Bluewindow) and Philippe CONTE (SUI/Bluewindow)!

Exciting until the very end and Boardercross riding at it's very best - today's finals proved to be the ultimate season highlight! The longer the day took, the closer it also got with the Championships: Apart from second ranked Chri Maierhofer, who dropped out of competition early already, all other applicants for the championship-podium remained in the race until the final run. Philippe Conte, Xavier Delerue, time trials winner Drew Nilson, Tor Bruserud and Bertrand Denervaud then even had to wait some minutes, because thick fog came on the course and so the security of the riders came first.

"Exciting until the very end and Boardercross riding at it's very best - today's finals proved to be the ultimate season highlight!!"

Like yesterday, it was Drew Neilson (CAN/Burton) being the fastest in the finals, second came Frenchman riding for Switzerland and new World Champion Philippe Conte, ahead of (also third on the Championship podium) Xavier Delerue. Neilson, with the points for today's victory even could jump from 4th to second rank in the Championship rankings and is now Vice World Champion.

At the women's, both top-riders in the rankings, Ine Poetzl (AUT/Bluewindow) and Line Oestvold (NOR/Bluewindow) easily made it into the finals and it came obvious why these two girls were ruling this season's competitions. In the finals run, first Oestvold took the lead, then crashed slightly and had to let the field pass, but also Poetzl slightly bailed and so the way was free for young Swiss rider Fabienne Reuteler (Salomon). Actually more into Halfpipe riding than Boardercross, this victory was surprising Reuteler as much as all others in the field, but entering the Boardercross - course in six implicates surprises, and sometimes the one with the most stable riding wins. Champion Poetzl came second, ahead of Austrian Gitti Koeck (O'Neill), who also in Alpine was pretty successful this season. Maximum respect also to Carlee Baker, she is third in the Championships though she could not compete here in Laax due to an injury. But still, her points-account was big enough to keep her position.

— Chris Vile Editor BoarderZone.Com|HAVE YOUR SAY!|