Choi Gaon of South Korea poses with the winner’s belt after successful the ladies’s halfpipe title on the Worldwide Ski Federation Snowboard World Cup in Copper Mountain, Colorado, Dec. 19, on this Getty Photographs picture. Yonhap
Teen snowboarder Choi Gaon has received a World Cup title within the girls’s halfpipe for the second consecutive week.
Choi completed first with 94.50 factors within the newest Worldwide Ski Federation Snowboard World Cup cease in Copper Mountain, Colorado, on Friday (native time). The 17-year-old had additionally received a World Cup halfpipe title in China final week.
Sena Tomita of Japan completed in second place with 88.75 factors, adopted by Bea Kim of the USA with 75.25 factors.
Chloe Kim, two-time Olympic gold medalist and Korean American famous person, didn’t compete within the closing with an undisclosed damage.
Choi and Kim had topped the qualification scores of their respective teams earlier within the week.
This was Choi’s third profession World Cup title, and it additional boosts her hopes of reaching the rostrum on the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics in two months’ time.
This was the one competitors that Kim had been scheduled to compete in earlier than the Olympics, and it wasn’t instantly clear how her damage absence within the closing would have an effect on her lead-up to the three-peat bid.
The subsequent halfpipe World Cup shall be in January in Calgary, Canada.
