Another Big Weekend for Australian Snowsports Athletes

December 18th, 2023
A big medal haul for the Aussie snowboardcross team in Cervinia, Italy: (L-R)Josie Baff, bronze, Adam Lambert silver and Belle Brockhoff silver.

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Australia’s wintersport athletes have continued their remarkable early northern hemisphere winter form, claiming an all-time record eight World Cup medals across four different sports over the weekend.

The medal haul eclipses the previous best number of six in a weekend, which was achieved back in February 2017. 

Leading the medal charge was 2022 Olympic champion Jakara Anthony, who made it double gold in Alpe d’Huez, France, with her third straight single moguls win to start the season, and her first dual mogul victory in what has been an incredible start to her season.

“It’s super exciting to go back-to-back at this event again, I did it a couple of years ago, but missed the first place in the duals last year, so to get a little redemption is nice” said the 25-year-old Anthony from Barwon Heads in Victoria.

At the snowboard cross event in Cervinia, Australia took home three medals for the first time in any single wintersport competition, with Adam Lambert just falling short in a photo finish for first place, giving him a silver medal in the men’s event, together with Belle Brockhoff and Josie Baff on the women’s podium in second and third.

“The whole day has been crazy, and to top it off with a podium is so epic, it was so close to a gold”, said the 26-year-old Lambert from Jindabyne in the NSW Snowy Mountains.

Belle and Adam teamed up to represent Australia in the teams event, making the final but just missing out on the podium. finishing in fourth place.

In China, aerial skier Laura Peel also achieved her first medal of the season, finishing in third place in Changchun, and was one of two skiers to perform the spectacular triple back somersaults in finals.

Valentino Guseli finished fourth in the halfpipe in Copper Mountain.

Just missing out on a medal this morning was snowboard super teen Valentino Guseli in fourth place at the World Cup halfpipe event in Copper Mountain, USA. Scotty James, qualified for the final at number one with a high score of 95,5, but uncharacteristically didn’t put down a good run in the finals and finished 7th.

In freeskiing, Australia’s Daisy Thomas made her World Cup debut in Copper and progressed to the final, where she finished in 7th place.It was a great result for the16-year-old and Thomas threw down some big tricks, including a solid right double cork 1080 and is one to watch in the future.