Teen snowboard prodigy Valentino Guseli has created historical past, turning into the primary rider to podium in all three park and pipe disciplines in a single season after profitable two silver medals within the World Cup competitors in Mammoth Mountain within the US.
The Beijing Olympian, who remains to be solely 17, completed on the dais in huge air, slopestyle and halfpipe occasions this weekend.
Three different snowboarders have managed the feat however by no means in a single season.
Competing in one of the best of three run halfpipe ultimate, Guseli from nation New South Wales, put down his highest rating in his first run, posting 85.25 factors which was sufficient to safe second place.
Japanese rider Ruka Hirano completed first with a rating of 91.50 factors, whereas American Chase Blackwell received bronze with 84 factors.
Guseli was then scheduled to again up his halfpipe efficiency by competing within the slopestyle ultimate straight after, however sadly rising excessive winds compelled the occasion to be canceled as a result of rider security.
That meant outcomes from the qualification spherical three days earlier stood as the ultimate outcomes, which had Guseli in second place with a rating of 81.50 from his first run.
American Dusty Henricksen took the gold with a rating of 88.68 and his teammate Chris Corning in third with 81.33.
“I am simply tremendous hyped to have landed my tips this week and acquired some fairly good outcomes,” mentioned Guseli, downplaying his history-making week.
“It is just a little bit unlucky we did not get at it in the present day in slopestyle, however I am blissful pipe ran and I am pleased with my driving.
“I simply need to preserve pushing – for podiums, wins, data… however actually I simply need to preserve loving my life and snowboarding.”
Guseli’s different World Cup podium efficiency this season got here in December with a giant air gold medal in Edmonton, Canada, and he additionally received his first ever X-Video games medal with a bronze in Aspen, USA, final week.
In the meantime, Matt Graham has rounded out a stellar weekend for Australian winter sport athletes, taking dwelling a silver medal within the twin mogul World Cup occasion in Deer Valley, USA.
It was Graham’s second medal of the weekend, after earlier profitable the boys’s single moguls with teammate Jakara Anthony claiming gold within the ladies’s equal.
Danielle Scott additionally received aerial snowboarding gold in her World Cup occasion on the Deer Valley resort.
-AAP
