The Olympic gold in Beijing last year was a minor boast, but this season Walter Wallberg has shown that he is at the top of the world to stay. In January, the Swede took his first World Cup victory, and on Saturday he rounded off the season with the sixth podium this winter.
Canadian Mikaël Kingsbury became too difficult in the final of the parallel hump competition in Almaty, Kazakhstan, but Wallberg is still happy with his second place in the World Cup final.
"I went fast and had a good day," Wallberg said in a press release.
Third in the total
"It's been a great season with the first World Cup win. It started off a little messy with a broken wrist and then I had food poisoning at a competition. But I've always focused on my goals and tried to take one day at a time. This summer my coaches will have a lot to do because next year I'm standing here with a big globe instead."
If so, he needs to pin down the sport's all-time greatest from the throne. The Globe, which is awarded to the overall winner of the World Cup, went this year, for the eleventh time in his career, to 30-year-old Mikaël Kingsbury.
Walter Wallberg was third in the overall.