Tenessee team wins International Snow Sculpture Championships

Summit Daily/Brad Odekirk USA Team Tennessee won for its snow sculpture - Nautilus - in this year's 15th annual Budweiser International snow Sculpture Championships.

Summit Daily/Brad Odekirk The nautilus, a relative of the octobpus is the only cephalopod to have an external shell. The asymmetrical shell has fascinated naturalists, mathematicians and physicists for centuries with its perfectly proportioned spiraled shell. It obviously fascinated spectators and judges as well in the 15th annual Budweiser International Snow Sculpture Championships this year as Team Tennessee, captained by Mike Klamann, sculpted to a first place finish.

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Summit Daily/Brad Odekirk The nautilus, a relative of the octobpus is the only cephalopod to have an external shell. The asymmetrical shell has fascinated naturalists, mathematicians and physicists for centuries with its perfectly proportioned spiraled shell. It obviously fascinated spectators and judges as well in the 15th annual Budweiser International Snow Sculpture Championships this year as Team Tennessee, captained by Mike Klamann, sculpted to a first place finish.

BRECKENRIDGE - A sculpting team from Tennessee won a gold medal Saturday in the International Snow Sculpture Championships with an intricate sculpture titled "Nautilus."

Breckenridge's home team won bronze with "Water Song," a sculpture of a hand holding melting snow.

The winning Tennessee team won a silver medal in last year's competition.

This year's winners were announced at about 3:30 p.m. Saturday.

A team from Morrison won a silver medal with "The Lookout."

Team Mexico's "Configuration of Time," which represented how human relationships change from person to person according to our context of space and time, and Team China's "Butterfly Lovers," which is based upon a historical legend about a pair of lovers who turned into butterflies when they died for their love, received honorable mentions.

Thousands of spectators watched this week as 12 teams from four countries participated in the 15th annual event. Artists had been carving 20-ton blocks of snow since Tuesday to create sculptures that will be on display at the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge until Feb. 6.

Teams used chisels, saws, chicken wire and carrot scrapers but no power tools to carve the snow.

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