Two continents and two different formats of racing.
Colorado hosted the us nationals and Germany had the famous Almabtrieb downhill contest.

Congratulations go out to the whole team in the usa for excellent placings, there were quite a few....
Big surprises came from Chris Barker, who did a triple clean sweep in the masters divison

and to Cat Young, who surprised everyone with a 1. place in the downhill contest...there you go Cat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The infamous Almabtrieb was crowded with the best racers from across the world.
Dominik Kowalski and Sebastian Hertler took some good placings among a very big starterfield.

Check a Clip of the finals here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHl29AoH1KE