Picture
Picture
Picture
  • Home
  • Aerials
    • Aerial Skiing About
    • Aerial Skiing News
    • Gabi Ash
    • Abbey Willcox
    • Laura Peel
    • Danielle Scott
  • Moguls
    • Moguls Skiing About
    • Mogul Skiing News
    • Jakara Anthony
    • Matt Graham
    • Cooper Woods
  • Park & Pipe
    • Park & Pipe About
    • Park & Pipe News
    • Tess Coady
    • Matt Cox
    • Scotty James
    • Valentino Guseli
  • Snowboard Cross
    • Snowboard Cross About
    • Snowboard Cross News
    • Josie Baff
    • Cameron Bolton
    • Belle Brockhoff
    • Jarryd Hughes
    • Adam Lambert
  • Individual Athletes
    • Individual Athletes About
    • Individual Athletes News
    • Madison Hoffman
    • Harry Laidlaw
    • Louis Muhlen-Schulte
    • Greta Small
    • Bree Walker
    • Jackie Narracott
    • Tahli Gill
    • Dean Hewitt
    • Alex Ferlazzo
    • Brendan Corey
    • Doug Crawford
  • About
    • OWIA News
    • Sport Integrity
    • Media
    • OWIA About
    • OWIA History
    • Executive & Staff
    • OWIA Policies & Documents
    • OWIA Calendar
    • Sponsors & Partners
    • Australian Sports Foundation
    • Newsletter
    • Privacy
    • National Redress Scheme
    • Medical
    • Contact

Aussies land two top six places, Peel just misses podium

31/1/2015

 
Picture
OWIA/VIS aerial skiers finished in two of the top six places and both qualified for the World Cup medal round super-final in the first World Cup in Lake Placid, USA.

Competing under lights and in minus 20 degrees Celsius, newly crowned World Champion Laura Peel, finished just outside a podium position in fourth.

The World Cup was won by Belarusian Aliaksandra Ramanouskaya, with Russian Veronika Korsunova picking up the silver medal ahead of Melissa Corbo from Canada.

The other Australian in the super-final was Renee McElduff, who finished the day in sixth overall.

It was the first time McElduff has won through to a World Cup super-final and in doing so she recorded a career best result.

Competition started strongly for the Australians who filled first and second places in the qualification session, thanks to impressive jumps by the third member of the OWIA/VIS squad, Danielle Scott, and Peel.

Scott’s double full full impressed the judges and attracted 91.65 points, placing her just ahead of Peel’s full full on 87.88 points.

McElduff qualified for the first final in 10th place also with a full full.

In the next round Scott was dealt a cruel blow by “Mother Nature”, which virtually snatched away any chance the OWIA/VIS athlete had of advancing to the super-final.

At the exact time of turning her skis in to start her approach to the kicker, the wind turned to a tail wind and significantly affected her decent speed, which made it extremely difficult to land her jump.

The result was a back slap on her landing, costing her a large number of points and the chance to compete for a medal in the super-final. Scott finished in 11th overall.

Coach Jeff Bean said there was nothing she could have done and quipped “she must have really upset Mother Nature”.

“At the end of the day Mother Nature decided it was not her day,” Bean said. “It was absolute plain bad luck.”

While Scott experienced difficulties, Peel nailed a back full full, giving her a 90.09, a score which was unbeaten in this round and was ranked number one heading into the super-final.

McElduff showed equal determination and, with the same jump as Peel, grabbed third place, recording her highest ever score with that jump, and her first appearance in a super-final in what was her brightest moment in this elite level.

Bean described the event as a “great day” for Peel and McElduff.

“It is due to consistency in training at the end of the day. In aerials, you kind of break through milestones. Renee has been doing doubles for a couple of years now and her landing percentage in general and consistency have increased.

“All of the pieces of the puzzles are coming together for Renee.

“It is the start of bigger and better things for Renee.”

Bean also praised the performance of Peel, who is ramping up the level of difficulty with her jumps, with a view to add regular World Cup medals to her World Championships gold.

Peel’s jump carried a higher degree of difficulty than the all other five athletes in the super-final.

“Laura will do her more difficult jumps even when it is not perfect weather,” Bean said.

“She touched her hand a little on landing and that was the difference between first and fourth.”


IMAGE: Danielle Scott, Renee McElduff and Laura Peel in Lake Placid  © Ashley Merkur

Former gymnast becomes Australia's fourth aerial skiing world champion

23/1/2015

 
PictureLaura Peel at the 2008 ACT State Gymnastics Championships, Level 10 competition
The gymnastics community is celebrating as former gymnast Laura Peel has taken the title at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships in Kreischberg, Austria, making her only the fourth ever Australian World Champion Aerial Skier.

Laura (25) hails from the ACT where she started her career in gymnastics at the Canberra City Gymnastics Club under coaches Derui Qu and Yun Fan. Laura reached Level 10 and was National Champion on Uneven Bars.

A recreational skier as well, Laura was identified at 19 by former world champions Jacqui Cooper and made the move to the sport competively. Her gymnastics background was no doubt the strong foundation for her success in the sport which saw her finish seventh at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games.

Laura's world championship title also takes Australia's tally of female world champions to the top of the individual aerial skiing competitor wins table worldwide.

Laura is an Olympic Winter Institute of Australia (OWIA) and Victoria Institute of Sport (VIS) athlete. 

Gymnastics Australia (GA) is supported by the Federal Government's Australian Institute of Sport Competitive Innovation Fund. ‘Spin to Win’ is a collaborative project led by GA in partnership with Diving Australia and Aerial Skiing (SSSA and OWIA) that aims to build a successful and sustainable national system of talent identification, development and transfer to maximise podium performances at world championships and Olympic Games in each sport in the future.

For more information regarding talent identification or talent transfer please contact GA's National Pathways Coordinator – Spin to Win, Bree Bryant bbryant@gymnastics.org.au.


Peel wins World Championships

16/1/2015

 
Picture
Twenty-five year old aerial skier, Canberra’s Laura Peel, became Australia’s newest World Champion when she won the gold medal at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships in Kreischberg, Austria, this morning.

The Olympic Winter Institute of Australia/Victoria Institute of Sport athlete becomes the fourth Australian woman to win an aerial skiing World Championships title and joins Kirstie Marshall, Jacqui Cooper and Alisa Camplin in an elite group.

Peel claimed her first major title in a nail-biting super-final ahead of American Kiley McKinnon in second with China’s Xu Mengtao in third.

Peel’s courageous victory came from a triple twisting double somersault.

As the third last competitor in the six-woman super-final, Peel landed a high quality jump and picked up 88.47 points from the judges.

The jump put Peel at the top of the leaders’ board and at that time she knew she would podium but the colour of her medal depended on the last two jumps of the competition from Flying Kangaroo teammate Danielle Scott and Mengtao.

Unfortunately for Scott, she fell slightly backwards on her landing, which was reflected in her score of 70.14 points, which pushed the Australian out of medal contention and back to fifth place overall.

The higher ranked Mengtao pinned her hopes of snatching the gold from Peel on a triple twisting triple somersault, a more difficult jump than Peel’s selection.

However, Mengtao failed to land the jump cleanly and gained 86.84 points.

A shell-shocked Peel described the win as “disbelief”.

“I just wanted to get through to the top six but to come away with the win is unbelievable,” Peel said.

“I am so happy to be the World Champion. I can’t believe it.”

Going into the Championships, Peel thought she “had a shot of being on the podium” but did not expect to be standing on the top step.

“I was a little nervous about the jump selection but I knew that if I wanted to stand on the podium, I knew that was what I had to do,” Peel said.

One of the first people to congratulate Peel on her outstanding performance was former World Champion Jacqui Cooper, who originally identified Peel’s exception talent as a gymnast and encouraged her to become involved with aerial skiing.

“Jacqui said she was so proud of me, which meant so much to me,” Peel said.

“She has always encouraged me and helped me with so many things.”

She added that training alongside Olympic gold medallist Lydia Lassila for a number of years as well as a year with Cooper, set Peel on a course to becoming World Champion.

“Training with Lydia I saw how tough a competitor she is and my first year, which was Jacqui’s last year, was amazing plus working with my coaches and teammates, has been so great.”

Scott can also be proud of her achievements at this event after securing the highest score in the qualification session, seventh in the first final, second in the second final before making a minor error in the super-final.

The third Flying Kangaroo member, Renee McElduff, finished in 13th place overall.

In other results from Kreischberg, Australian snowboard cross athlete Alex “Chumpy” Pullin finished his qualification session in top place.

The defending champion goes into tomorrow’s finals as one of the top contenders and is aiming on becoming the first snowboard cross athlete to win three World Championship in a row.

Other Australians, Cam Bolton and Jarryd Hughes finished the session in 11th and 29th respectively while Belle Brockhoff was seventh fastest. All OWIA/NSWIS athletes qualified for the finals.

Results

Women’s aerial skiing, FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships, Kreischberg, Austria

1.       Larau Peel (AUS), 2.Kiley McKinnon (USA), 3. Xu Mengtao (CHN), 4.Ashley Caldwell (USA), 5. Danielle Scott (AUS), 6. Hanna Huskova (BLR), 13. Renee McElduff (AUS)


Aussies first and second in World Championships qualifying

15/1/2015

 
Picture
Olympic Winter Institute of Australia/Victorian Institute of Sport skiers Danielle Scott and Laura Peel have qualified for the finals of the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships in Kreischberg, Austria, in first and second place.

The Australian pair go into tomorrow’s finals ahead of Olympic silver medallist Xu Mengtao from China.

Scott finished today’s qualification session in top place with a score of 96.23 for her double full full jump, edging out her teammate on 92.70 with a full double full. Xu scored 91.29 points.

The third member of the Australian squad, Renee McElduff, narrowly missed the 12-woman cut to advance to the finals, ending the first session of the World Championships in 13th place.

The top 12 athletes from the qualification session battle out the finals from 4am Friday Australian Eastern Summer Time.

 


    AERIAL SKIING  ARCHIVES

    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    May 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    December 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    June 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    October 2015
    August 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    September 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    October 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    October 2011
    February 2011
    January 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010
    October 2010
    September 2010
    August 2010
    June 2010
    May 2010

    RSS Feed

    NEWS  CATEGORIES

    All
    Abbey Willcox
    Airleigh Frigo
    Alisa Camplin
    Britt George
    Danielle Scott
    David Morris
    Gabi Ash
    Gabrielle Ash
    Harrison Tulberg
    Jacqui Cooper
    Kirstie Marshall
    Laura Peel
    Lydia Lassila
    Renee McElduff
    Samantha Wells
    Wesley Naylor

Picture
OLYMPIC WINTER INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA
​

CONTACT
​
O'Brien Icehouse
Level 2
105 Pearl River Road
Docklands, VIC 3008
Australia

P
hone: +61 3 9686 2977

ABOUT                 
OWIA History
Executive & Staff
Policies & Documents 
Sponsors & Partners
OWIA Calendar

Australian Sports Foundation
North American Medical
Media Center


SPORT INTEGRITY
​
​SITE MAP

AERIAL SKIING
News
ALPINE SKIING
News
​
MOGUL SKIING
News
PARK & PIPE
News
SNOWBOARD CROSS
News

INDIVIDUAL ATHLETES
News


Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture

​Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy  |  2022 © Olympic Winter Institute of Australia  All rights reserved