Nathan Johnstone

Nathan " Nate " Johnstone (born 9 February 1990 in Mona Vale ) is an Australian snowboarder who starts the most successful in the halfpipe and in this discipline became World Champion in January 2011.

Johnstone, who grew up in the north of Sydney, began at the age of ten years with the snowboarding. In January 2006, he competed in his first Mount Bachelor FIS races and took shortly after 15 -year-old for the first time at the Snowboard World Youth Championship in South Korea Vivaldi Park part. In March of the same year, the Australians took on his debut in the World Cup the 26th place, reaching his first World Cup points. In the next two years he played exclusively niederklassige competitions where he repeatedly achieved rankings in the top five and once finished third on the podium. At the end of the season 2007/ 08 he returned to the World Cup. Already in his first competition in Calgary, he reached the finals, where threw him back a mistake to eleventh place. On March 9, 2008, he came in Stonehahm in only his third World Cup race in third place for the first time on the podium. After these successes Johnstone received in April 2008, a grant from the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia ( OWI ) and was later honored by the New South Wales Institute of Sport ( NSWIS ) as Junior Athlete of the Year.

The following winter was even more successful for John Stone: with two second places at the World Cup in Bardonecchia and Valmalenco, he finished behind the Japanese Ryo Aono second place in the overall World Cup Halfpipe at the end of the season. He also placed ninth at the World Championships in Gangwon -do. In the next season Johnstone did not start in the World Cup, but prepared instead for the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, where he was to represent Australia as the best Piper Half of the country. On 21 January 2010, a few weeks before the Olympics start, Johnstone broke his ankle during a workout, so he had to cancel his participation in the Olympic Games. In August 2010, Johnstone was in the New Zealand Cardrona Junior Vizweltmeister, where he was only beaten by the Japanese Taku Hiraoka. The biggest success of his career until then managed the Australian on January 20, 2011: At the World Championships in La Molina, he scored the highest score in the final and decided the competition ahead of Switzerland's Iouri Podladtchikov for themselves. Johnstone said after winning the title meant a lot to him, since he had trained very hard before the season to be successful.