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NEED FOR SPEED Omar Visitin SBX Worldcup Winner 2014
Omar Visintin from South Tyrol, Italy, loves speed and not only on the boardercross course. After the 24-yearold won his first World Cup, at the beginning of last season, he kept winning contests and at the end of the winter was awarded the crystal ball for the SBX World Cup title. This was the highlight of what has been an extremely successful career for Omar, which began when he was only twelve years old, participating in his first snowboard contest. „From that moment I knew that I wanted to become a snowboard pro one day“, says Omar, who also won the World Junior Championships in 2009. „This season has definitely been the most important for me as besides participating at the Olympic Games and winning the World Cup title I also became Italian Champion“, he explains. And the board that is always on his side in competitions is the Coal Race.