One of the world’s biggest freestyle snowsports events, the Laax Open, has confirmed that it’s 2018 staging will run from 15 to 20 January 2018.
LAAX has been a leading host and organiser of freestyle events for decades and has been awarded the title ‘World’s Best Freestyle Resort’ by some reviewers. Events have been staged on the resort’s Crap Sogn Gion for the past ten years.
The Hall of Fame of Laax Open alumni includes Olympic champions Shaun White, Iouri Podladtchikov, Kelly Clark and Jamie Anderson, as well as Ayumu Hirano, Danny Davis, Peetu Piiroinen, Mark McMorris and Ståle Sandbech, along with Enni Rukajärvi, Chloe Kim, Arielle Gold, Christy Prior and Sina Candrian, to name but a few.
The highlights of next winter’s Open look set to be the finals of the men’s and women’s slopestyle on Friday, 19 January and halfpipe on Saturday, 20 January 2018.