The Freeride World Tour announced that both men and women will be awarded equal prize money across all categories on the Freeride World Tour and Freeride Qualifier Tour. Here’s what the organization had to say:

The Freeride World Tour announces that men and women athletes will be awarded equal prize money across all categories on the Freeride World Tour and the Freeride Qualifier Tour.

The FWT makes this milestone announcement today as a commitment to gender equality in modern sports, striving to keep inspiring new generations of freeriders to chase the ultimate dream of earning a spot on the FWT.

This is an important day for the history of competitive freeride and the FWT is proud to lead by example towards greater equality in sports.

See the official release here.