Europe 1 with AFP 2:57 p.m., February 26, 2023

This Sunday, a day after being crowned on the moguls in singles, Perrine Laffont won gold in parallel.

For the first time in her career, the 24-year-old Frenchwoman saw double at the World Championships in Bakuriani, Georgia.

With five world titles to her credit, she becomes the most successful mogul skier in history.

At 24, Frenchwoman Perrine Laffont saw doubles for the first time in her career at the World Championships in Bakuriani (Georgia) on Sunday.

The day after her crowning on the moguls in singles, she won the gold in parallel.

With five world titles to her credit, she became the most successful mogul skier in history ahead of Canadian Jennifer Heil and Norwegian Kari Traa, both gold four times.

Less than 24 hours after her coronation in singles, the 24-year-old Pyrenean found the physical resources necessary to chain four passages over the bumps of the Georgian station.

She easily dominated Finland's Riikka Voutilainen in the eighth, Britain's Makayla Gerken Schofield in the quarter and Austria's Avital Carroll in the semi-finals.

In the final, she found the American Jaelin Kauf, vice-world champion in singles on Saturday, and Olympic vice-champion in singles in Zhangjiakou (China) a year ago.

The two skiers had faced each other in February in Deer Valley (United States) in the World Cup and Laffont had taken the best.

She once again dominated Kauf, to clinch the gold.

The bronze medal went to Carroll, completing an identical podium to Saturday's single mogul event.

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"I can't believe it, doing the double at the World Championships is something you can dream of when you are an athlete and a skier on moguls. It's great!", commented Laffont after the final.

"It's hard to believe it, because it's so much work. A big thank you to my team, my partners, and everyone who works with me, without them I wouldn't have made it. C 'is crazy!', she added.

A year after her disappointing fourth place at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, the 2018 Olympic mogul champion (single) returns to the top, after several months of doubt during which her Chinese failure could have pushed her to end her career.

After a start to the season on the podium, but still around first place, she picked up her first victory of the season at Deer Valley, in parallel, and it was the click.

She then chained another victory in the World Cup in Chiesa in Valmalenco (Italy), still in parallel and outclassed the competition on Saturday in Bakuriani in singles.