Xavier De Le Rue is a French mountain lover who is based in Verbier area, Switzerland during winter when he’s not on trip. During summer he comes back to St Lary, his home resort, in the Pyrenees (border between Spain and France) to climb with his wife and daughter, use his downhill mountain bike or go surfing near by on the french coast.

He is a strong freerider and most probably the guy who can ride the fastest in the steepest terrain. Every time he straps in, he charges the terrain, whether it’s pillow, minigulf, cliff or couloirs.He used to be known as a competitor only, although he always preferred freeriding, but it’s not easy to get into peoples mind you are a freerider when you won multiple world championship title and gold x games medals in snowboardcross. Most recently Xavier won two times in the row the title of freeride world champ, got awarded twice best line of the tour, won the Big Mountain pro event couple times. Although it’s great to step on the higher place of a podium, Xavier’s favourite program is filming and shooting freeride actions.

He has gotten his first big video part’ last year with Standard Films “Aesthetica” and got saved by ABS backpack from a huge avalanche who almost killed himself. Even when you know the mountain and are super into checking security, shit happen sometimes.

This past season Xavier has been filming a lot again, in Europe and AK for standard movie, he went to Greenland for a documentary released in October on relentlessenergy.com and he spent time hunting steep faces with Jeremy Jones around Chamonix area for DEEPER. He also filmed a lot in Switzerland and during a trip to AK with the Standard Films crew to get a solid part in “Black Winter” standard’s latest movie.

His plan for next year is to get involved in filming as much as possible, defend his freeride world title although he will do a little break to go to Vancouver for Olympics in between freeride sessions.

Film appearances 

2003 Nuit de la Glisse

2004 The ultimate round

2008    Aesthetica by Standard Films

2009 Black Winter by Standard Films

2009 Lives of the artist by Relentlessenergy

Accomplishments

2009 WORLD CHAMPION ON THE FREERIDE WORLD TOUR

2009 BEST LINE OVERALL (SKI AND SNOWBD) OF THE FREERIDE WORLD TOUR

2009 WINNER OF THE SWATCH ONEILL BIG MOUNTAIN PRO

2009 WINNER OVERALL OF THE SWATCH ONEILL BIG MOUNTAIN PRO

2009  WINNER FREERIDE WORLD TOUR VERBIER XTREM (CH)

2009  WINNER FREERIDE WORLD TOUR IN TIGNES (FR)

2009  2ND FREERIDE WORLD TOUR IN SOCHI (RU)

2009  3RD FREERIDE WORLD TOUR IN SQUAW VALLEY (USA)

2009 SBX FIS VICE WORLD CHAMPION

2008 WORLD CHAMPION ON THE FREERIDE WORLD TOUR 

2008 BEST LINE OVERALL (SKI AND SNOWBD) OF THE FREERIDE WORLD TOUR

2008 WINNER FREERIDE WORLD TOUR IN TIGNES (FR)

2008 2ND BIG MOUNTAIN PRO

2008 2ND FREERIDE WORLD TOUR IN SOCHI (RU)

2008 WINNER OXBOW BACK TO THE POWDER IN TIGNES (FR)

2007 WINNER VERBIER EXTREME (CH)

2007 WINNER OF THE SWATCH ONEILL BIG MOUNTAIN PRO

2007 WINNER OVERALL OF THE SWATCH ONEILL BIG MOUNTAIN PRO

2007 WINNER BOARDER-X WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

2005 WINNER X GAMES BOARDER-X

2005 WINNER GRAVITY GAMES BOARDER-X

2004 3RD XTREME VERBIER

2004 – 2003 WINNER FIS WORLD CUP OVERALL BOARDER-X

2003 WINNER ARLBERG FREERIDE TROPHY

2003 WINNER XGAMES ULTRACROSS

2003 – 2002 – 2001 WINNER ISF AND FIS  SBX WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

2002 1ST MOUNT BAKER BANKED SLALOM

Specialities: fast and furious while big mountain riding

Sidelines: Climbing, surfing