MILAN, Feb 10 (News On Japan) –
The ladies’s snowboard huge air ultimate was held on the Milan-Cortina Olympics, the place Beijing Olympic bronze medalist Murase Kokomo, 21, of TOKIO Inkarami captured the gold medal, changing into the primary Japanese lady to win gold within the occasion and the primary in ladies’s snowboarding historical past to achieve the rostrum at two consecutive Olympics.
Iwabuchi Reira, 24, of BURTON, competing in her third consecutive Olympics, completed eleventh, whereas first-time Olympian Suzuki Momo, 18, of Kirara Quest positioned sixth and Fukada Mari, 19, of YAMAZEN completed ninth.
With members of the Japanese males’s staff, together with silver medalist Kimata Ryoma, 23, of YAMAZEN and Ogiwara Taiga, 20, of TOKIO Inkarami watching on, Murase landed a quadruple rotation on her opening run to attain 89.75. She adopted with a excessive triple-and-a-half rotation on her second try for 72.00 factors. Entering her ultimate run in provisional second place, Murase delivered a frontside triple cork 1440, a four-rotation trick, scoring 89.25 to safe a comeback victory and the gold medal.
Big air, by which riders compete based mostly on the mixed rating of their two greatest runs out of three, was adopted as an official Olympic occasion beginning with the 2018 PyeongChang Games. Murase had beforehand received Japan’s first medal within the ladies’s occasion on the Beijing Olympics. In the boys’s huge air ultimate held on the eighth, Kimura Aoi, 21, of Murasaki Sports received gold and Kimata Ryoma claimed silver, marking the primary time Japanese riders stood on the Olympic podium within the males’s occasion.
Source: TBS