VIS aerial skiing double World Champion Laura Peel stormed back to form, securing her first World Cup victory of the season with an impressive performance at Lac-Beauport, Canada.
Peel bounced back from a 23rd-place finish on day one in Canada, delivering an excellent series of trademark triple back somersault to capture the 15th World Cup win of her career and her fourth victory at Lac-Beauport.
Peel qualified for the finals in eighth place with a double full-full double somersault scoring 81.78 points, joining VIS teammate Airleigh Frigo, who impressed with a career best score of 87.25 to advance in fourth. Making her first World Cup final was VIS second year World Cup competitor Sidney Stephens, in 12th scoring 76.85 points for her lay-full jump.
In the opening round of finals, Peel soared to the top-six super-final with a lay-full-full triple back somersault, earning 106.74 points. Frigo narrowly missed advancing in seventh place with 84.73 points, while Stephens achieved a personal best, finishing 11th on 72.29 points.
In the super-final, all three podium finishers performed the challenging full-full-full triple twisting back somersault. Peel led the way with a big score of 113.76 points, followed by American Winter Vinecki in second on 109.90, with China’s Xu Mengtao third on 97.02.
“I don’t know if we’ve had three full-full-fulls on the podium before,” said the 36-year-old Peel from Canberra.
“It’s epic to see women out there doing the big tricks, because we can. It’s great fun.
Also in action for Australia in Lac-Beauport was Abbey Willcox, who narrowly missed finals by one place in 13th and Danielle Scott was 20th, while in the men’s event, Reilly Flanagan also finished 20th.
Peel bounced back from a 23rd-place finish on day one in Canada, delivering an excellent series of trademark triple back somersault to capture the 15th World Cup win of her career and her fourth victory at Lac-Beauport.
Peel qualified for the finals in eighth place with a double full-full double somersault scoring 81.78 points, joining VIS teammate Airleigh Frigo, who impressed with a career best score of 87.25 to advance in fourth. Making her first World Cup final was VIS second year World Cup competitor Sidney Stephens, in 12th scoring 76.85 points for her lay-full jump.
In the opening round of finals, Peel soared to the top-six super-final with a lay-full-full triple back somersault, earning 106.74 points. Frigo narrowly missed advancing in seventh place with 84.73 points, while Stephens achieved a personal best, finishing 11th on 72.29 points.
In the super-final, all three podium finishers performed the challenging full-full-full triple twisting back somersault. Peel led the way with a big score of 113.76 points, followed by American Winter Vinecki in second on 109.90, with China’s Xu Mengtao third on 97.02.
“I don’t know if we’ve had three full-full-fulls on the podium before,” said the 36-year-old Peel from Canberra.
“It’s epic to see women out there doing the big tricks, because we can. It’s great fun.
Also in action for Australia in Lac-Beauport was Abbey Willcox, who narrowly missed finals by one place in 13th and Danielle Scott was 20th, while in the men’s event, Reilly Flanagan also finished 20th.
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