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Florian Orley is a professional snowboarding freerider and multisport athlete from Austria. Born on october 13th 1975 in the two times olympic city of Innsbruck he has been among the top competitors of the world in freeriding since the year 2000, winning multiple international freeride competitions and Freeride World Tour events, his carrer peaking as vice world champion in 2011 and 2016.
He doubled Vin Diesel in the Hollywood Action Thriller „Triple xXx“ and Salman Khan in the Bollywood Action Thriller "Tiger Zinda Hai" Throughout his carreer he has been around the world to have his freeriding captured in a lot of snowboard freeride sports movies, doing many first descents from Alaska to New Zealand.
Aside from snowboarding, Orley ranks among the world`s top acrobatic hanggliders, participating in aerobatic competitions and producing several action filled videos, amongst others winning the „Nissan Outdoor Games“ video competition in Chamonix in 2009.
From 2009 to 2010 he took a 15 month long timeout from his snowboard carrer to buy a 35 ft catamaran in the carribean sea and from there crossed the South Pacific with his later wife Nina Orley whom married in 2011.
His aggressive descents on a snowboard as well as his approaches to B.A.S.E. jumping, hanggliding and – unusual for an Austrian – surfing have gained him a reputation as an athlete without nerves.
Orley has finished his studies at the University of Innsbruck to obtain a master`s degree in sports management in 2005. Furthermore, he holds licenses as snowboarding guide and as a tandem pilot for hanggliding and paragliding. In 2014 his book „Die Lust am Risiko: Warum Extremsportler ihr Leben für den Sport riskieren.” was released, analysing the trend towards risky sports in our society.
He lives in his hometown Innsbruck with his wife Nina and his two kids born 2011 and 2012. He runs the „Freeride Center Austria“ there and continued to compete on the Freeride World Tour until 2017.
2018 he starts with his family a circumnavigation on a 45 ft sailing catmaran, which is planed to last until 2024.
Competition Results
Vice World champ Overall Freeride World Tour 2016
2nd place Freeride World Tour Final Verbier, Switzerland, march 2016
2nd place Freeride World Tour Valdez, Alaska, march 2016
3rd place Overall Freeride World Tour 2015
2nd place Freeride World Tour Vallnord, Andorra, march 2015
3nd place Freeride World Tour Chamonix, France, march 2015
1st place Eropean Freeride World Qualifer Ranking 2014
Austrian Freeride Champion 2014
1st place Freeride World Qualifier Hochfügen, Austria, february 2014
1st place 3* Freeride World Qualifier Kitzsteinhorn, Austria, march 2013
1st place 4* Freeride World Qualifier Hochfügen, Austria, february 2013
1st place Freeride World Qualifer Ranking 2013
Austrian Freeride Champion 2013
1st place 3* Freeride World Qualifier Kitzsteinhorn, Austria, march 2013
1st place 4* Freeride World Qualifier Hochfügen, Austria, february 2013
1st place 4* Freeride World Qualifier Engadinsnow, Austria, february 2013
3rd place Overall Freeride World Tour 2012
2nd place Freeride World Tour Final Verbier, Switzerland, march 2012
2nd place Freeride World Tour Fieberbrunn, Austria, march 2012
1st place Freeride World Tour Roldal, Nrway 2012
Vice World champ Overall Freeride World Tour 2011
3rd place Freeride World Qualifier Hochfügen, Austria, february 2012
1st place Russian Freeride Open, Sochi, Russia, march 2011
3rd place Overall Freeride World Tour 2008
1st place Russian Freeride Open, Sochi, Russia, march 2008
2nd place Mammoth Challenge, California, USA 2008
1st place Engadinsnow Freeridecontest St. Moritz, Switzerland, january 2006
Winner Gilles Voirol Award for the best line of the contest @ O`Neill Verbier Xtreme, Switzerland, march 2004
Winner Public Award @ Arlberg Open Space, Austria, february 2004
2nd place @ Engadinsnow Freeridecontest St. Moritz, Switzerland, january 2003
2rd place @ Red Bull Verbier Xtreme, Switzerland march 2002
1st place @ Powderhausen Expression Session Val Grisenche, Italy, april 2001
1st place @ Rip Curl World Heli Challenge, Wanaka, New Zealand, august 2000
Winner the Riders` Award Red Bull Verbier Xtreme, Switzerland, march 2000
1st place @ Seegrube Extreme Boarder, Innsbruck, march 1999
website
Videos (selection)
--> hanggliding
--> freeriding
--> surfing
--> youtube