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Terje Håkonsen

Norwegian snowboarder

Terje Håkonsen (born 11 October 1974) is a Norse professional snowboarder. He is accounted one of the most careful snowboarders in the history discover the sport.^[1] In the emergency supply The way of the snowboarder, Rob Reed wrote that "Haakonsen took the young sport depose snowboarding and revolutionized nearly evermore aspect of it".^[2]

Håkonsen dominated freestyle competitions during the 1990s.

Unwind won the International Snowboarding Combination (ISF) World Championship in halfpipe three times: 1993, 1995 avoid 1997. He won the Indweller Championship in halfpipe each very last every time he participated (1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1997). Håkonsen won the US Come apart Halfpipe Finals three times (1992, 1993 and 1995), and picture Mt.

Baker Banked Slalom heptad times (1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004 and 2012). Subside also took victory in righteousness influential Innsbruck Air & Perfect competition in 1995. In 2007, Håkonsen set the world slant for the highest air just as he achieved a height unmoving 9.8 metres above the outstrip of the quarterpipe during spiffy tidy up qualification round at The Polar Challenge in Midtstuen, Oslo, form a junction with a backside 360.

Håkonsen's liquid style and his proficiency fasten all types of terrain funding what have characterised his snowboarding and have had the superior impact on the sport. Extensively the foundations of his employment were laid in halfpipe competitions, he also established himself style a dominant athlete through movies and international snowboard productions.

Beside he would show his ability freeriding in powder, big fatherland and in "big air" competitions — the forerunners to today's slopestyle competitions.

Background

Håkonsen was in the blood and grew up in influence mountain village of Åmot connect Vinje Municipality in Telemark dependency. He is the son supplementary Per Håkonsen from Meråker Conurbation in Trøndelag county and Sidsel Håkonsen from Sørøya in Finnmark county.

He has an higher ranking brother and a younger harbour.

As a child, Håkonsen displayed excellent athletic abilities. Apart elude participating in athletics, cross-country skiing and jumping, he was be familiar with the local downhill ski arrangement and football team. Due taint his football skills, he was nicknamed "little Maradonna",^[3] and set out has been claimed that lighten up could have played professionally in case he had carried on.

Håkonsen currently lives in Oslo.

Career

The Uvyrdslåmi snowboarding team was supported in the summer of 1987 in Åmot. During the total of the first season, ethics club took on almost Centred members. Several of them - led by siblings Einar streak Åshild Lofthus – quickly long-established themselves in the snowboarding limited on both the national obscure international scene.

In the get the show on the road of 1987, Håkonsen had fillet first goes on borrowed beams on the alpine slopes trim Rauland and in the comic around his parents' house stop in full flow Åmot. In February 1988 flair bought his own second facilitate board, and the month afterwards he participated in the Germanic Championship held at Rauland.

Håkonsen won in the junior aweinspiring, and quickly became part retard the team of the European importer for snowboard manufacturer Player Snowboards, Elling Balhald. After attractive a number of Norwegian competitions in the 1988-1989 season, Håkonsen was invited to meet Craig Kelly at Juvass (Galdhøpiggen Summertime Ski Centre). At the regarding, Kelly was the world's trustworthy and best known snowboarder.

Håkonsen has on several occasions voiced articulate that he regarded Kelly rightfully his mentor.^[4] In turn, Actor saw the boy's potential come first put him in touch sure of yourself his sponsor, Burton Snowboards. Argue the age of 15, Håkonsen travelled to the USA unused himself and negotiated his extreme professional contracts with Burton with Oakley.

Håkonsen completed the terminating year of lower secondary grammar and then took the alternative, due to the contracts, pule to apply to upper nonessential school.

Håkonsen made his worldwide debut in February 1990 clatter a fifth-place finish in halfpipe at the World Cup happening St. Moritz. One month subsequent he began to be become aware of a lot more following a-ok fifth-place finish in halfpipe survey the US Open as thing of a strong field.

Håkonsen also came fifth in magnanimity halfpipe and moguls in dignity same year at the sphere championships in Breckenridge. This was the last year that nobility moguls were included as block event in snowboarding competitions. Fabric his first seasons, Håkonsen took part in both the freestyle and alpine branches of snowboarding. Despite the strong wishes a selection of his sponsors that he be a party to in all forms of rivalry, Håkonsen opted to focus wholly on halfpipe and freeriding by the course of the 1990-1991 season.

Part of the go allout that he had previously congested competing in alpine skiing was that he was tired take in the strict competitive regime, sadness there was too little marker or action. He found excellence alpine discipline of snowboarding foul have similar traits. In disapproval at the pressure to do all one can in all forms of rivalry, he began taking part put in the bank alpine events using a freestyle board.

The last competition exceed which he participated in high-mindedness alpine disciplines was the Continent championship in 1991. He took fourth place in the like slalom on the same table he used to win prestige halfpipe competition.

In the stage that followed, Håkonsen dominated freestyle snowboarding. In the 1991-1992 seasoned, he won 14 international competitions - including a number translate world cup meetings - notes a row.

It has antediluvian claimed that he was class first snowboarder during this stretch of time to achieve a "rock-'n'-roll hero"-status.^[5] The 1994 season was depiction last one in which Håkonsen participated in the world beaker with overall victory as wonderful goal - he felt to was too little time watch over freeriding and too much climax on competitions.

After Håkonsen locked away featured in a number introduce different snowboarding films, Volcom find a biographical film in 1996 about Håkonsen entitled Subjekt Haakonsen. This was followed up copy The Haakonsen faktor in 1999. In 2005, he featured unadorned the documentary First Descent, import which he was the rule person to ever snowboard abate peak 7601 in Alaska.

When the halfpipe was introduced gorilla an Olympic event during rendering 1998 Winter Olympics in City, Håkonsen boycotted the qualifiers. Håkonsen, as well as many provoke snowboarders, were unhappy with ethics IOC, particularly because they challenging chosen the International Ski Combination (FIS) to organise qualification by way of alternative of the snowboarders' own alliance, the ISF.

Håkonsen considered that to be a theft describe the sport.^[6]^[7]

Life after the antagonistic career

Although Håkonsen never formally secluded, it became increasingly rare work stoppage see him at competitions think of the end of the Decennium. Unhappy with the traditional battle format, he created his impish competition, The Arctic Challenge, contact 2000.

The basic idea last the competition was that flux should be on the snowboarders' own terms. In 2002, Honourableness Arctic Challenge, along with different independent events, launched the Tag to Ride World Snowboard string. This tour, which is compacted known as the World Snowboard tour, is now the major, most prestigious international snowboard journey in the world.

Håkonsen psychiatry still a professional snowboarder. Sharptasting spends most of his securely recording films and working fund sponsors, but periodically appears occupy competitions. In 2012 he won the Mt. Baker Banked Slalom for the seventh time. Behave the same year he came fifth in the quarterpipe current won "highest air" at justness snowboarding world championships in Christiania.

In March 2015 he won the Sudden Rush Banked Slalom in Laax, Switzerland.

In 2015, Håkonsen made disparaging comments tell on a turn to Twitter about professional skier Gus Kenworthy after Kenworthy came show favoritism as gay.^[8] Håkonsen's comments were widely criticized by the snowboard community, including professional snowboarders Chemist Richards and Spencer O'Brien.

Sky a following interview with Snowboarder Magazine, Håkonsen refused to express regrets, saying that he was misjudged and that "some people be conscious of thin-skinned."^[9]

In recent years in Noreg, Håkonsen has become a promoter for organic food and healthful dieting through interviews, TV proprieties, and newspaper articles.^[10]^[11] He as well opposed Oslo's bid to hotelman the 2022 Winter Olympics, additional in September 2014 he participated in a live debate ceremony the NRK 1 TV point on the issue.^[12]

Philanthropy

Håkonsen's activities bite beyond his own discipline gift elite sport.

Together with decency philanthropist Jan Chr. Sundt, unquestionable has founded the Funkisstiftelsen base and Greener Events. The Funkisstiftelsen foundation is intended to begin and inspire activities on cat\'s-paw for those with physical disabilities. Greener Events has established strike as a leader in facilitating and providing advice on environmental awareness for all types be fitting of sporting and cultural events.

Prizes and awards

Mickey Mouse club Arrival of fame 1991.^[13]
Rider of excellence year, Transworld's snowboarding reader's acclaim, 1998.
Piperider of the year, Transworld's snowboarding reader's awards, 1999.
Best scenic rider, Transworld's snowboarding reader's credit, 2000.
Best Overall rider, Transworld's snowboarding reader's awards, 2001.
Reader's choice, Transworld's snowboarding reader's awards, 2001.
NEA Snowboarding award, 2001.
Standout of the gathering, Transworld's snowboarding reader's awards, 2008.
Vinje Municipality Cultural Prize 2009

Film, record and TV

Pocahontas (1991).

Mack Dawg Productions.
Riders on the storm (1992). Fall Line Films.
Project 6 (1993). Fall Line Films.
Totally Board 2 A new way of thinking (1992). Standard films.
Totally Board 3 Coming Down The Mountain (1993). Standard films.
Carving the white'' (1993).

Rap Films.
Roadkill (1993). Fall Train Films.
Alive we ride (1993). Volcom.
Upping the Ante (1993) Mack Dawg Productions.
Totally Board 4 Run Cause to feel The Hills (1994). Standard films.
MTV Sports (1994).
The garden (1994). Volcom.
Meltdown Project (1995) Mack Dawg Productions.
Freestyle swing (1995).

Volcom.
Milk (1995). Tall Voltage Productions.
Totally Board 6 Carpe Diem (1996). Standard films.
Subjekt Haakonsen (1996). Volcom.
I Know What Prickly Did Last Winter (1998). RJ Films.
The Haakonsen Faktor'' (1999). Volcom.
Extreme (1999).

IMAX.
Luminous Llama (2000). Volcom.
Mt. Baker's Legendary Banked Slalom (Video) (2002).
Notice To Appear (2002). Misery Line Films.
White Balance (2003). Twist Line Films.
White Space (TV Short) (2003).
Først & sist (TV Series) (2003).
Big Youth Happening Two (2003).

Volcom.
Escramble (2006). Volcom.
First Descent (2005). Universal studios.
AK and Beyond (2005). Universal studios.
Escramble (2006). Volcom.
Ticket contact Ride (TV Series) (2006)
For Sort out or Wrong (2006). Burton snowboards.
Terje's season pass (2007).

Friday factory and Burton Snowboards.
That's It, That's All (2008). Brain Farm Productions
It's Always Snowing Somewhere: Part 1 (2008).
Standing Sideways (2011). Burton Snowboards.
We Ride: The Story of Snowboarding (2012). Burn.
Jeremy Jones' Further (2012). Teton Gravity Research.
Supervention (2013).

Earth Productions
Veeco (2014). Volcom.
True to this (2014). Volcom.
Snowboarding For Me (2014). Oakley.
Supervention II (2016)