QAS bobsleigh athlete Bree Walker has headed to North America for the first time in years, heading to the Lake Placid in America for a training camp on the former Olympic track, and also to compete in two North American Cup monobob events.

On the first day of competition, Walker took home the gold medal, finishing ahead of 2023 World Champion Laura Nolte of Germany, with her teammate and 2018 Olympic gold medallist Lisa Buckwitz in third.

On day two, the top-two places on the podium were reversed, with Nolte taking the win ahead of Walker, and Buckwitz again in third.

With Walker likely to be back competing in the North American World Cup events next season, and Lake Placid hosting the 2025 World Championships, the podium results will give her great confidence for the future.

Australian figure skating pair Hektor Giotopoulos Moore and Anastasia Golubeva have recorded an incredible eighth place at their first ever senior World Championship event in Saitama, Japan.

After finishing in the silver medal position at the past two Junior World Championships, the pair showed they are ready to compete against the very best in the world, to record Australia's best World Championship result since Anthony Liu finished seventh in 2002.

The pair started off in the short program scoring 61.85 points to be ranked in 11th place, with just one mistake holding them back from a higher score.

In the free skating final event, the pair had an unbelievable performance to score a personal best 127.52 points, the fifth highest of the round, moving them up into eighth place with a total score of 189.47, also a career best.

In first place was Miura Riku and Kihara Ryuichi of Japan with 222.16, with Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier of the USA in scoring 217.48 in second, and Italy's Sara Conti and Niccolo Macii in third with 208.08.

Also representing Australia at the World Championships was Holly Harris and Jason Chan in the ice dance.

The couple reached the top-20 free dance final skate with a 16th place performance in the short program scoring 64.80.

In the free dance, the couple improved to have the 15th best performance of the round, scoring a career best 104.67 points, giving them a final ranking of 16th overall with a total score of 169.47.

Harry Laidlaw competed in the World Cup giant slalom double event in the Slovenian ski resort of Kranjska Gora.

On day one of competition, the 2018 Olympian finished the first run in 38th place, 4.03 seconds behind Marco Odermatt of Switzerland who went on to win the race in the second run.

In the second day, Laidlaw finished 40th in the first run, 5.42 seconds behind Odermatt, who made it a double victory for the Swiss skier.

Laidlaw's World Cup season is now complete, with just the World Cup final remaining with a limited field featuring the top-25 athletes per discipline in the overall rankings.

2022 Olympian Brendan Corey has had a successful ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Championships in Seoul, Korea, recording two top-10 performances in his best ever finish at the event.

The result is Australia's best at the World Championships since the 1990's, when the men's relay team, featuring Olympic champion Steven Bradbury, had a number of top-five finishes.

Corey started the 1500m event in great form, winning his opening quarter final heat to advance direct into the semi-finals.

In the semi-final, Corey grabbed second place in a tight finish to make it through to his first ever World Championship A-final. Up against a field of eight skaters, Corey finished in sixth place setting a new personal best.

On the final day of competition, Corey continued his strong skating into the 1000m reaching the semi-final for the second time in Seoul. With a spot in the A-Final on the line, Corey narrowly missed out finishing in third place, putting him in the B-Final.

In the B-Final, Corey crossed the line in third, giving him his second top-10 for the World Championships in eighth place.

Corey also competed in the 500m, his third distance at the World Championships, placing 26th.

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Brendan Corey (left) in action in the 1000m B-Final
Photo: Chung Sung-Jun/ISU

Doug Crawford has finished in a seasons best 33rd place at the ski cross World Cup event in Veysonnaz, Switzerland.

After two days of heavy snowfall, which saw 70-80cm of snow fall, the event organisers were forced to cancel the qualification time trial round, with all athletes taking part in head-to-head racing.

Fortunately conditions improved on the Sunday for the race to go ahead.

In the opening round of 64, the VIS skier was unable to advance to the next round, after crossing the line in third, giving him a final result of equal 33rd position.

Taking victory was David Mobaerg of Sweden in the men's event, with local Swiss skier Fanny Smith the women's event winner.

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Doug Crawford at the recent World Championships in Bakuriani, Georgia. Photo: Chris Hocking/OWIA

Madison Hoffman has continued her great form on the Nor-Am circuit, recording her first career gold medal in the giant slalom last week at Stratton Mountain Resort in the USA.

The 22-year-old has now recorded three podium's at the Nor-Am level, including two silver medals in the slalom from the week prior in Osler Bluff, Canada.

On day one of competition at Stratton, Hoffman finished in fourth place just missing the podium, but improved straight away on day two, with the fastest time of all competitors.

In the final run, Hoffman had the third fastest time, but with her lead from the first run, it was enough to secure victory with a two-run time of 2:13.73 seconds, 0.79 seconds ahead of the second place finisher.

Hoffman is now ranked fourth in the giant slalom and sixth in the slalom on the overall Nor-Am cup standings with the final race to come in Whistler, Canada, at the end of the month.

Three-time Olympian Greta Small has returned to competition after a  back injury forced her out of the previous weekends event in Switzerland, taking part in a triple World Cup speed race in Kvitfjell, Norway.

The NSWIS skier competed in the super-g event first, finishing in 41st place, then the downhill on the following day placing 42nd, and on the third and final day, another super-g event was ran, with the 27-year-old finishing 42nd again.

It was the final World Cup stop of the season for Small, with just the World Cup Finals speed events remaining in Soldeu, Andorra, which has a reduced field.

Anastasia Golubeva and Hektor Giotopoulos Moore have become just the second Australian pair to win a medal at the International Skating Union (ISU) Junior World Championships, after finishing second in Calgary, Canada.

The first pair to medal at the Junior World Championships for Australia were Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya and Harley Windsor, who were victorious back in March, 2017.

The short program saw the pair ranked third, 7.77 points behind first place after scoring 59.18.

In the final free program skate, the pair put in another good performance with the second highest skate of the round with 111.18 points.

Their final combined score for both programs was 170.36, putting them 13.11 points behind event winners Sophia Baram and Daniel Tioumentsev of the USA with a total score of 1183.47, with Ukrainians Violetta Sierova and Ivan Khobta in third scoring 159.39.

Vlada Vasiliev also made her World Championship debut for Australia in the women's single events, placing 42nd after scoring 36.93 in the short program.