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.

Declining Nuria Castán was very solid, safe and fluent, the choice of the line was correct, she made three jumps well executed and with the right facilities, in the middle stretch of the descent had a little scare because when leaving a channel skidded over an area of hard snow and played with his back on the floor, but without falling, is a “Butt Check”, this penalty that detracted from -10 to -15 points, in the end, she departed from or even third place would have options to stay in second place in the end had to settle for 4th place but with good feelings drop made.

The next competition is next weekend in Lizum (Austria), it’s a competition FWQ 3*, which had to be played in January due to lack of snow moved to the end of the season, the next Saturday 26/03/16.
This coming weekend will be very intense for Nuria Castán, since Sunday 03.27.16, she will play what will be the final race of the season in Cortina d’Ampezzo, is a approves the FWQ 3*, if all the schedule goes as planned, when the competition ends in Lizum (Austria) she will travel to Cortina d’Ampezzo in Italy.
This contest will give by finished the 2016 season to Nuria Castán, which has been very intense and exhausting with many contest and some canceled especially during the month of January this year.

Results of Saint Foy-Tarentaise FWQ 3*

Current Ranking of Freeride world Qualifier.

Top 91 FWQ 2016 – SNOW WOMEN as of Mar 20 2016

Rank             Name                                           Gender                Results                   Points

1                    Mandl, Manuela (AUT)                F                          3                            5050
2                    Orlova, Anna (RUS)                     F                          3                            4100
3                    Kuzma, Maria Anne (NZL)          F                          3                            4000
4                    Perrotin, Tiphanie (FRA)             F                          3                            3070
5                    Mouthon, Anouck (FRA)              F                          3                            2940

6                   Schwarz, Petra (GER)                   F                           3                           2590
7                   Castán Barón, Nuria (ESP) F                           3                           2580
8                   Hollsten, Mikaela (FIN)                F                           3                           2555
9                   Shahin, Randa (USA)                     F                           3                           2450
10                 Chapotot, Claire (FRA)                  F                           3                           2410