FIS Snowboard World Cup

Zreče – Slovenia’s veteran snowboarder Žan Košir won the Snowboard World Cup parallel giant slalom event on Rogla on Saturday only days after a disappointing performance by the home favourites at the World Championships at the same venue.

In the finals, the 36-year old beat Russia’s Andrey Sobolev, who won bronze at the Championships here on Monday.

Zreče – Russia’s Dmitry Loginov and Germany’s Selina Jörg defended their world titles in the parallel giant slalom at the Snowboarding World Championships in Rogla, Slovenia on Monday. Slovenian snowboarders underperformed.

Silver medals went to Italian snowboarder Roland Fischnaller and Russian Sofia Nadyrshina and bronze to Andrey Sobolev of Russia and Julia Dujmovits of Austria.

St. Moritz – Slovenian Tim Mastnak took third place in parallel giant slalom in FIS Snowboarding World Cup in Scuol, Switzerland, on Saturday. Russian Igor Sluev won the competition, while Pole Michal Nowaczyk was second.

This was Mastnak’s fifth World Cup podium and the second podium for the Slovenian team in this season.

Radoslav Yankov of Bulgaria failed to gain his second victory during the Snowboard World Cup races in Bansko on Sunday.

Yankov finished second in the parallel giant slalom, right after winning the competition on Friday. Sweeping through all the races and reaching the finals, Yankov fell down and finished second after Sylvain Dufour (France).

Bulgarian snowboarder Radoslav Yankov won the world cup in men's parallel giant slalom on Sunday.

The 26-year-old from the town of Chepelare reached the quarterfinals and finished sixth in the last race for the season in Winterberg on Sunday, earning 400 points and becoming unchallenged in the final standing.

Bulgarian snowboarder Alexandra Jekova is taking home her first this season in the ladies' snowboard cross final as part of the Snowboard World Cup in Veysonnaz, Switzerland.

Jekova has scored a third victory for her career, and also the first in five years. It was in Veysonnaz, in March 2014, where she was in Top 3 for the last time, finishing third.

Bulgaria’s Alexandra Zhekova finished 3rd in the final standings of the snowboard cross World Cup.

Zhekova finished 5th during Saturday’s final race at La Molina, Spain. However, “Sani” was able to move ahead of Russia’s injured Eva Samkova in the final standings.