Patrick Switzer is quickly becoming the king of the hill.
The BCIT-sponsored skateboarder won his sixth straight International Gravity Sports Association sanctioned race of the year, taking first place in the Prince Edward County Gravity Festival 1.2-kilometre downhill race in Picton, Ont. Sunday.
Switzer, a mechanical engineering student at BCIT, posted the fastest time in qualifying and won all five of his heats to post his second consecutive victory at the Picton festival.
Switzer set a new qualifying record time of 1: 23.598 on his second run, bettering his old mark set last year by more than seven seconds.
The 24-year-old longboarder recently became the first-ever racer to win three consecutive World Cup races, placing first in three separate races on the European circuit in the Czech Republic, Germany and Italy this summer.
Switzer then went one better with a fourth straight World Cup victory, taking top spot at the Winsport Canada Cup in Calgary on Sept. 4.
The win vaulted Switzer into top spot in World Cup downhill skateboard standings with 2,183.45 points, more than 200 points ahead of current runner-up Alex Tongue of the United States.
The World Cup downhill series wraps up with two events in South America.
The first is a 2.98 km race in the
Andes mountains of Peru in October, followed by the ninth IGSA World Championships and the first to be held in South America in Teutonia, Brazil Nov. 4 to 6.
The 2-km course is renowned as the fastest on the circuit with top speeds in excess of more than 115 km/h recorded.
Kevin Reimer of Canada holds the downhill course speed record of 116.13 km/ h on the Teutonia course set in 2010.
