Photos: Red Bull transformed Hart Plaza into snowboarder’s paradise for heavy metal competition

DETROIT – Snowboarding fans gathered in Hart Plaza on Saturday to experience the Detroit Red Bull Heavy Metal.

40 riders participated in the snowboarding contest on Saturday afternoon and were able to shred in three different zones. The zones were a 20-foot concrete wallride, flat-down rails in the “guts” of Hart Plaza and the last zone was a 50-foot steel down rail in the Hart Plaza amphitheater.

According to Red Bull, the event was revived last year in Minnesota after a 19-year hiatus.

“Today was an absolute success. It was so cool to watch all the riders feed off each other and try harder and harder tricks,” said Competition director Joe Sexton. “And it was incredible to see how Detroit supported snowboarding and to see the local riders taking full advantage of the opportunity and holding their own against the pros with the hometown support they definitely felt from the crowd.”

Below are the top three winters for both the men and women categories:

Women

1. Egan Wint

2. Jaylen Hanson

3. Maggie Leon

Men

1. Pat Fava

2. Ryan Paul

3. Luke Winkelmann