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Anderson’s slopestyle win puts her atop leader board on TTR World Tour


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LAAX, Switzerland — South Lake Tahoe’s Jamie Anderson and Finland’s Roope Tonteri were victorious in today’s slopestyle finals at the 12th annual 6Star Burton European Open.

With her win today, earning 1,000 TTR ranking points, Anderson takes over the Swatch TTR World Tour lead and put herself in an excellent position to make a move for the 2010-11 TTR World Tour Champion title.

This was Tonteri’s first 6Star title of his career, which bolstered his spot at World No. 8 in the TTR World Tour Rankings.

Both secured spots to compete in the 2012 World Snowboarding Championships taking place in Oslo, Norway, in February 2012.

Anderson rode with her signature smooth style stomping a backside tailslide on the down rail, a Millerflip on the steel ball, tailblunt to fakie on the mailbox and a switch boardslide to 5-0 on the kinked rail in the jib section then threw a backside alley-oop on the quarterpipe into a backside 360, frontside 360 and a huge backside 180 Japan on the kicker line.

Anderson, who skis for Sierra-at-Tahoe, said, “The win feels great. I would love to win the TTR World Tour title again. We’ll see if it’s meant to be. I’m going to do my best, ride strong and hope to do well.”

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