BEIJING, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) — China’s snowboard sensation Su Yiming and veteran Anna Gasser of Austria secured victories of their respective males’s and girls’s huge air on the FIS World Cup right here on Saturday, repeating their triumphs from the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games.
“My dream started here. I am really happy and grateful to come back and show myself in front of the audience,” mentioned the 19-year-old Su, who ranked first within the qualification spherical on Friday and maintained the momentum within the ultimate at Shougang.
With a shocking 1800 and 1980 efficiency respectively within the first two runs, Su clinched the win early with 184.50 factors and felt comfortable within the third run to savor the competitors. Japanese snowboarder Ryoma Kimata earned the silver with 180.75 factors, whereas his compatriot Kira Kimura claimed the bronze.
Gasser, who defended her ladies’s snowboard huge air Olympic title on the Beijing 2022, as soon as once more ascended to the occasion’s highest podium with 174 factors within the FIS World Cup.
“I had some mistakes in my first run. My second one is not as good as I normally can do it. I didn’t just compete for the points, but for the best performances,” Gasser mentioned after the competitors.
Australia’s Tess Coady positioned second within the ladies’s snowboard huge air, carefully adopted by Miyabi Onitsuka of Japan.
In the boys’s freeski huge air, Alexander Hall of the United States amassed 182 factors to assert the gold, outscoring the runner-up Edouard Therriault of Canada by solely 0.25 factors. Switzerland’s Andri Ragettli edged out Italy’s Miro Tabanelli by the identical margin to grab the bronze.
Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland earned the ladies’s freeski huge air gold with 175.50 factors, sharing the rostrum with British Kirsty Muir and Italy’s Flora Tabanelli. China’s Liu Mengting made her debut within the World Cup ultimate and completed in seventh.
“I still have much to learn on the international stage, but I feel delighted to perform the tricks I prepared for the World Cup. Now, the Big Air Shougang is also where I started my dream,” Liu famous.