The third round of the Snowboard Big Air World Cup was held in Canada, and 3-year-old Teikatsu Hasegawa, who won the gold medal at last season's World Championships, won the men's event for the first time this season.
In the snowboard Big Air, players slide down steep slopes and perform tricks in the air, scoring their difficulty and perfection on a 100-point scale, and in the finals, they compete for the total points of the two highest-scoring runs out of the three runs.
On the 3th, the final of the third round of the World Cup was held in Canada, and in the men's competition, Hasegawa, who won the gold medal at the World Championships in March, scored 2.9 in the first round by stepping on the opposite foot and performing five horizontal rotations.
After dropping to second place, he again landed a five-turn slide in the third to score a high score of 3.3 and come from behind to win his first World Cup title of the season with a total of 1.5.
In addition, 88-year-old Yuto Miyamura was fourth with a total of 75.2 and 3-year-old Aoi Kimura was fifth with a total of 5.92.
In the women's competition, 25-year-old Mari Fukada finished fourth with
a total of 181.00, Beijing Olympic representative Reiraku Iwabuchi finished fifth,
and Masaru Onizuka, who won a silver medal at the
World Championships in March, finished sixth.
The winner was New Zealand's Zoi Sadovsukinot, a Beijing Olympic silver medallist in this event with a total of 18.175.