BEIJING, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) — Swiss freestyle skier Mathilde Gremaud efficiently defended her title within the ladies’s slopestyle on Monday on the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.
Gremaud delivered below strain after China’s Gu Ailing led with 86.58 factors within the opening run. The Swiss responded with a powerful second run, scoring 86.96 factors to edge Gu by 0.38 factors and safe the gold medal.
Falling brief once more to Gremaud after Beijing 2022, Gu mentioned, “I think it’s kind of funny that both Olympics we were within half a point of one another. If anything, I think it’s just testament to the growth of women’s free skiing. It’s so special to be a part of that.”
In velocity skating, Leerdam set a brand new Olympic file of 1:12.31 to win the ladies’s 1,000m, 0.28 seconds forward of her compatriot Femke Kok, whereas Beijing 2022 champion Miho Takagi of Japan claimed bronze in 1:13.95, her eighth medal throughout 5 Games. China’s Yin Qi and Han Mei positioned twelfth and thirteenth respectively among the many 30 individuals.
Switzerland added one other gold in alpine snowboarding as Franjo von Allmen and Tanguy Nef mounted a comeback to win the lads’s group mixed occasion, which made its debut on Olympic program. It additionally marked Von Allmen’s second gold at Milan-Cortina, after he claimed the Games’ opening gold in Saturday’s downhill race.
Germany’s Philipp Raimund captured gold within the males’s regular hill ski leaping occasion with 274.1 factors.
Japan’s Kokomo Murase claimed gold within the ladies’s snowboard massive air with 179.00 factors. China’s Zhang Xiaonan completed fifth in her Olympic debut, matching the nation’s finest consequence within the occasion.