Torstein Horgmo (born 18 February 1987) is a

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professional snowboarder. Horgmo has competed, and medalled in, a variety of slopestyle and big air snowboarding competitions. He rides regular stance.

Personal

Horgmo grew up in

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, before eventually moving to

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. Horgmo first began snowboarding when he was twelve years old, prior to which he had only skied. Horgmo is a

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rider with many sponsors including Oakley, Inc.,

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, and others. In 2012 he released his own film titled "Horgasm – A Love Story", chronicling his snowboarding career over the course of two years. Horgmo started his company, AWSM brand, along with fellow rider

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. He has been seen riding with

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many times. Horgmo is often featured in a YouTube channel called "ShredBots," which was started with McMorris and Eero Ettala.

Competition history

Horgmo won a gold medal in Snowboard Big Air at the 2008

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, after first beating

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in the finals, and Kevin Pearce in the semifinal. He also won gold in the slopestyle final at the 2009

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, beating Shaun White, who won the Slopestyle Final in

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.Results: Snowboard Big Air Finals
– ''EXPN.com'' (January 26, 2008) (Retrieved on January 28, 2008) At the 2009

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XIII, Horgmo was defeated in Big Air by friend and teammate

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. This event trialed the text-voting system as the only judging system. The riders, including Rice himself, have stated that they do not believe that this voting system produces fair results, as nationality, popularity, and crowd appeal of the tricks can outweigh the technicality of the trick itself. Horgmo performed switch backside 1260's, but was defeated by Rice's backside double rodeo 1080. In Dew Tour winter 2009/10 he took two first place victories over Shaun White in slopestyle. In the summer of 2010 he was the first to land a triple cork (three off axis flips and four full rotations before coming back in contact with the ground) off a 100 ft jump in

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. In the Winter X Games XV Horgmo landed an attempt of the triple cork in competition in the Big Air finals on 28 January 2011, winning a gold medal over Sebastien Toutant. Horgmo followed this up in January 2012 landing a true triple cork 1440 in the Winter X Games Big Air Final, scoring a perfect score of 50/50. This triple cork however was a backside spin instead of his previous frontside spin triple. Horgmo finished in second place, narrowly losing to

. At the Winter X Games Aspen in January 2013, Horgmo was the first person ever to land a switch backside triple cork 1440 in competition, earning him a perfect score of 50/50 for the second year in a row and the gold medal in Big Air. In competitions following Horgmo was able to win slopestyle gold and silver in the Burton European and US Opens respectively. In the Burton US Open, Horgmo was the only rider to land a triple cork on the slopestyle course, but lost to Shredbots teammate

by a narrow margin. Horgmo qualified for the

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in Sochi; however, while practicing in Sochi, he fell and broke a

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, which forced him to miss the Olympics.

Results

Career Highlights ''2015:'' 3rd, Burton European Open Slopestyle ''2015:'' 6, X Games Aspen 2015 Snowboard Men's Snowboard Slopestyle ''2015:'' 6, X Games Aspen 2015 Snowboard Big Air ''2013:'' 1st, FIS Snowboarding World Cup Slopestyle in Czech Republic ''2013:'' 2nd, Burton US Open Slopestyle ''2013:'' 1st, Burton European Open Slopestyle, ''2013:'' Gold Medal, Winter X Games Big Air ''2012:'' Silver Medal, Winter X Games Big Air ''2011:'' 2nd, Air & Style Beijing Big Air ''2011:'' Gold Medal, Winter X Games Big Air ''2011:'' 1st, Dew Tour Slopestyle – Connecticut ''2011:'' 1st, Dew Tour Slopestyle – Colorado ''2011:'' 1st Overall, Dew Tour Season Standings Slopestyle ''2010:'' 1st, Dew Tour Slopestyle – Mt. Snow ''2010:'' 2nd Overall, Dew Tour Slopestyle ''2010:'' 2nd, Oakley Arctic Challenge Slopestyle ''2010:'' Silver Medal, X Games Big Air ''2009:'' 1st, Dew Tour Slopestyle – Mt. Snow ''2009:'' 1st, Dew Tour Slopestyle – Northstar-at-Tahoe, California ''2009:'' 1st Mt Snow Dew Tour Slopestyle ''2009:'' 1st Tahoe Dew Tour Slopestyle ''2009:'' Silver Medal, Winter X Games Big Air ''2009:'' 2nd, Red Bull Snowscrapers Best Trick ''2009:'' 2nd, Andreas Wiig Invitational ''2008:'' Gold Medal, Winter X-Games Big Air ''2008:'' 1st, U.S. Open Big Air ''2007:'' Abominable Snow Jam Overall Winner ''2007:'' 3rd, Air & Style Big Air ''2007:'' 1st Overall, Oakley Stylewars

Swatch TTR World Tour events 2007/08 season

Swatch TTR World Tour
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References

External links

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