Jakara Anthony has continued her dazzling begin to the freestyle snowboarding season, profitable her second World Cup moguls title within the area of per week in Scandinavia.
Key factors:
- Jakara Anthony claimed the World Cup moguls title in Sweden, per week after profitable one in Finland
- Anthony scored 81.75 to complete 1.73 factors away from Japanese teenager Anri Kawamura
- Aussies Matt Graham (77.53) and Cooper Woods (76.55) completed sixth and seventh within the males’s competitors
Australia’s Olympic champion Anthony, quickly changing into some of the dominant athletes in any winter sport, took the title within the Swedish resort of Idre Fjall simply seven days after prevailing in Ruka, Finland.
Beginning the season with two straight wins, 24-year-old Anthony, who dominated on the Beijing Olympics in February to be topped Australia’s sole champion there, will go for a hat-trick in tonight’s opening twin moguls.
“It is a wild solution to kick off the season with back-to-back wins right here and in Ruka,” stated Anthony, who’s already overwhelming favorite to efficiently defend her crystal globe as total World Cup moguls champ.
“I am actually proud how I have been capable of progress over the times I have been right here on the course.
“There’s been plenty of determining to do, plenty of modifications to make and I feel I am making progress in the proper path.”
Anthony scored 81.75 to complete 1.73 factors away from Japanese teenager Anri Kawamura, who appears to be like set to be the Cairns athlete’s greatest challenger after making seven podiums from eight occasions final season.
Within the total standings, Anthony has a most 200 factors with 2018 Olympic champion Perrine Laffont, who was third in Idre Fjall, equal second with Kawamura on 140.
Anthony hopes to increase her lead within the duals occasion by which pairs of athletes compete in head-to-head elimination rounds.
“Duals is wild,” she stated.
“Coming in off profitable the tour final 12 months, it will be actually thrilling.”
Within the equal males’s occasion, Aussies Matt Graham (77.53) and Cooper Woods (76.55) completed sixth and seventh respectively as younger American moguls prospect Nick Web page brought about a shock by beating six-time world champion Mikael Kingsbury to document his first ever World Cup victory.
AAP
