The world’s best slackliners compete in Laax
Published: Friday, Jul 19th 2024, 17:20
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The world's best athletes competed in the Slackline World Championships in Laax on Friday afternoon. It is the second world championships for this young sport to be held in the Grisons resort.
The venue for the Slackline World Championships is the Crap Sogn Gion mountain station at 2216 meters above sea level in the Flims Laax ski resort. The world's 43 best athletes will show off their skills 20 meters above the ground on five parallel highlines measuring 65 and 110 meters in length. A strong, seven-strong delegation from Switzerland will also be taking part.
The competitions are in the disciplines of freestyle and speed highline. The former is about acrobatics on a taut high wire, the latter about crossing it as quickly as possible.
This is the second Slackline World Championships to be organized by the Swiss Slackline Association in Laax. The association is one of the pioneers in the effort to establish slacklining as an international competitive sport. Switzerland is considered the Mecca of the sport.
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