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Show The Salt Lake Tribune SPORTS Thursday, December18, 2003 International contingent dominates at Park PARK CITY Urs Eiselin planned to throw a party. Tomoka Takeuchi intended to give her $10,000 prize to her parents. The international snowboarding crowd dropped into Park City Wednesday for the parallel giant slalomevent at the Chevy Truck U.S. Snowboard Grand Prix and walked away with most of the prize money. The four-day event, which in cludes a superpipe competition Friday evening, preceded by a concert by the multi-platinum rock band Staind, boasts one of the biggest purses in snow boarding. The sport’s top stars were able to squeeze in a stop in Park City between two World Cup events in Canada. Swiss rider Hiselin topped a field of 81 men, edging World Cup leader Siegfried Grabnerof Aus tria in the two-runfinal. Takeu chi finished first among 42 wom en, beating out Italy’s Isabella Dal Balcon in the final. The top American was Rosey Fletcher of Girdwood, Alaska, who was fifth in the women’s event. AdamSmith of Bend, Ore., promoted to the U.S. “A” team last week, was the top U.S. male, at eighth. Both winners pocketed $10,000, although they had differ ent intentions for their wind falls. Grabner, who earned $5,000 for finishing second, had a little Christmas shopping in mind, “T havea big family,” he said. “T have five brothers and sisters, and I have nephews and nieces and uncles and aunts and par ents, so I think $5,000 will be a little bit too little. “Maybe $10,000 would have been better.” he added with a laugh. Dal Balcon, a 26-year-old from Vicenza “the hometown of Palladio, the architect,” she said planned to use her $5,000 second-place prize money to continue snowboarding after the competitive season ends in March. “All the training and competition are paid for by the national team,” said Dal Balcon, “but this is not enough for me.” In the first run of the men’s final, Eiselin caught Grabner on the last pitch to edge him by0.75 seconds. A fall on the second run dashed Grabner’s chances of a comeback, “T didn’t have a good second run,” said Grabner. “From the beginning, I tried to push, but the slope was pretty damaged already. I just made one mistake push it,” said Dal Balcon, who finished seventh at the Olym- Snowboard Grand Prix WENDESDAY’S RESULTS pics. “I carved too fast, didn’t Men 1. Urs Eiselin, Switzerland 2. Siegfried Grabner, Austria 3. Gilles Jaquet, Switzerland 4. Andre Prommegger, Austria make the correct movement and then I crashed.” There werea lot of crashes in earlier rounds, too. Grabnersaid 5, Heinz Inniger, Switzerland the boarders could have put on a 6. Nicolas Huet, France better show if the course hadn’t been so icy. “It’s perfect for ski races,” he said, “but it’s too slippery for a snowboard race. That’s why you see people crashingall the time because wejust have one edge we're riding on. If you slip, you 7. Dieter Krassnig, Austria 8. Adam Smith, United States 9. Enc Warren, United States 10. Stet Kaltschuetz, Austria Women 1. Tomoka Takeuchi, Japan 2. Isabella Dal Balcon,Italy 3, Daniela Meuli, Switzerland 4. Rebek Von Kaenel, Switzerland 5. Ursula Bruhin, Switzerland fall.” 6. Rosey Fletcher, United States The Olympic parallel giant slalom was “one of the worst races ever,” he said, because similarly icy conditions resulted 7. Aprilia Hagglot, Sweden 8. Lisa Kosglow, United States 9. Lynn Ott, United States 10. Milena Meisser, Switzerland in numerous crashes. Grippy slid out on the third gate at the Games. On Wednesday, Dal Balcon, trailing by 1.075 seconds, pressed to catch Takeuchi on the second run. But like Grabner, she lost the race whenshefell. “IT knew that to win I had to snow at last weekend’s World Cup in Whistler, B.C., where the course was equally tough, allowed almostall the racersto get down without crashing,hesaid. “It was a really good show,” he said, “and that’s how it should be.” ‘stag it Switzerland's Urs Eiselin fights to maintain his balance while going around a gatein the first run of his final-round matchup with Austria's Siegfried Grabner.Eiselin's victory netted him $10,000. Give| e Santa. Save| e Scrooge. Nokia 3595 w/ color display Getup to 4 phones FREE after $50 in mail-in rebates. Suggestedretail price of $49.99/each. Sales tax applies. after the other, and in the end I Hurry in for more minutes and more savings for the family. crashed.” Kiselin, who missed compet: ing at the 2002 Winter Olympics by one slot, said all the riders wereat risk of wiping out on the toughcourse. “It’s really difficult to ride here becauseit’s very steep and very icy,” said fiselin, fifthranked in the World Cup standings. “Everybody makes mistakes here.” Takeuchi’s win provided somerevenge, she said, for adisappointing Olympics, where she finished 21st on the same course. The 19-year-old from the northern Japaneseisland of Hokkaido Start with the AT&T Wireless Local plan. Get 1000 anytime minutes for $39.99 a month Get up to 3 extra lines FREE for3 months ° nationwide long distance included whenyou add extra lines for $9.99/mo.ea. All from your applicable Service Area with a 2-year agreement. See below for activation fee and other monthly charges. Monthly perline service charge waived forfirst three months. 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