Jacob Wester

Jacob Wester is a Swedish freeskier, born on the November 17th 1987 in Stockholm. His's parents are both sports people his father being a golfer and his mother a downhill skier.Jacob began Skiing at the age of five, but only appeared onto the freeskiing scene In 2005 when he finished second place at the Jon Olsson Invitational, later that year he won the “Air We Go” in Oslo, Norway. [http://oakley.com/sports/ski/athletes/34] Jacob has been mentored by pro freeskier and fellow countryman Jon Olsson, with both him and Jon pushing the "doubles movement", doing tricks like double flips and corks. [http://expn.go.com/expn/athletes/bio?id=36633]

Sponsors

Jacob rides for Armada skis and his other sponsors include Oakley and Enom headwear. [http://www.freeskier.com/wiki/mediawiki/index.php/Jacob_Wester]

Results

*2008 1st Freestyle.ch, Big Air, Zurich, Switzerland [http://www.negativegravity.co.uk/2008/10/08/snowfix-68-freestylech-part-1/]
*2008 1st US Open, slopestyle, Cooper, Colorado [http://www.freeskier.com/wiki/mediawiki/index.php/Jacob_Wester]
*2007 10th King Of Style, Big Air, Stockholm, Sweden
*2007 2nd Jon Olsson Invitational, Big Air Åre, Sweden
*2007 2nd US Open, Big Air, Cooper, Colorado
*2006 8th Freestyle.ch, Big Air, Zurich, Switzerland
*2006 13th World Skiing Invitational, Superpipe, Whistler, BC, Canada
*2006 5th Orage European Freeskiing Open, Superpipe, Laax, Switzerland
*2006 5th Orage European Freeskiing Open, Slopestyle, Laax, Switzerland
*2005 1st Air We Go, Big Air, Oslo, Norway
*2005 4th N.Z. Free Ski Open, Slopestyle, Wanaka, New Zealand
*2005 2nd Jon Olsson Invitational, Big Air, Åre, Sweden
*2005 4th US Open, Big Air, Vail, Colorado [http://expn.go.com/expn/athletes/bio?id=36633]

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