​Teenage ski sensation Indra Brown has capped off her debut World Cup season with an impressive second‑place overall ranking, following a sixth‑place finish at the final event in Silvaplana, Switzerland.
 
Competing in windy conditions that limited amplitude across the field, Brown opened the two‑run final with a score of 77 points. She improved on her second run, posting 77.50 points after adding an extra 360‑degree rotation on her second hit.
 
Brown’s highest scoring run included a left cork 900, right 540, left 720, switch right 540, switch left 260 and left alley-oop with all tricks completed with grabs.
 
Victory in Silvaplana went to Great Britain’s Zoe Atkin with a score of 86.75 points, while Mischa Thomas of New Zealand finished second on 80.75 and Russia’s Aleksandra Glazkova placed third with 80 points.
 
The win secured the Crystal Globe for Atkin with 360 points on the final standings, moving her ahead of Brown, who finished the season second overall on 290 points. Brown also finished the season ranked second on the FIS Overall Park & Pipe World Cup standings, which includes results from halfpipe, slopestyle and big air.
 
Brown’s end‑of‑season ranking is the best ever by an Australian winter sports athlete in their first World Cup season, highlighted by three World Cup podiums including a victory, a silver medal at her debut X Games, and a fifth‑place final finish in her first Olympic Winter Games.
 
Brown also competed in the slopestyle event in Silvaplana, where she finished 19th, while Joey Elliss placed 55th in the men’s slopestyle competition.

Teenage ski sensation Indra Brown’s remarkable debut season continued in Tignes, France, where the 16‑year‑old narrowly missed the podium in her first ever World Cup Big Air competition, finishing fourth.

Brown has focused primarily on the halfpipe discipline through to the Olympic Winter Games, where she produced a standout performance to place fifth. She currently sits atop the World Cup halfpipe standings and has already claimed three World Cup medals this season, including a victory, along with the Junior World Championship title.

Her first big air and slopestyle starts of the season came earlier this month at the Junior World Championships, where she finished fifth in big air and fourth in slopestyle.
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In the Big Air World Cup in Tignes, Brown qualified for the final in fourth place, posting a best score of 84 points with a left‑side double cork 1080 with safety grab on her opening jump.

The final followed the three‑run format, with only the top two scores from two distinctly different tricks counting towards the final result. Brown again opened with the left‑side double cork 1080 with safety grab, scoring 83 points. She then took off switch for her remaining two jumps, landing a left‑side bio 900 with safety grab for 74.25 points. On her final attempt, Brown added an extra 180 degrees of rotation but was unable to improve her score, finishing with a combined total of 157.25 points to place fourth, just 2.75 points shy of the podium.

Victory went to Canada’s Naomi Urness with 166.7 points, ahead of Finland’s Anni Kavara on 166, while Switzerland’s Giulia Tanno claimed third with 160.

In the slopestyle World Cup, Brown finished 14th in qualifying, missing the top‑10 final.

Also competing for Australia in Tignes were Joey Elliss, who finished 49th in big air and 54th in slopestyle, and Aidan Lang who placed 42nd in slopestyle.

Brown will now turn her attention to the final World Cup event of the season at the Corvatsch Park in Silvaplana, Switzerland. Slopestyle qualifying will take place on March 26, with finals on March 28, while halfpipe qualifying is scheduled for March 27 and the final on March 29.

She leads the women’s halfpipe World Cup standings on 290 points, holding a 30‑point advantage over Great Britain’s Zoe Atkin, with China’s Kexin Zhang third on 245 points.
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Brown is also third in the Overall Park & Pipe standings on 358 points, which combine halfpipe, big air and slopestyle results, trailing Great Britain’s Kirsty Muir on 419 points and Urness on 392.

NSWIS snowboarders Tess Coady, Mela Stalker and Valentino Guseli have all delivered top‑10 performances in the World Cup slopestyle final at Absolute Park in Flachau, Austria, with Coady leading the Australian charge in fourth place, narrowly missing the podium.

Guseli impressed in the qualification round, winning the first heat with a score of 74.98 points on his second run. In the women’s qualifiers, Coady progressed to the final in seventh place with a score of 67.51, while Stalker secured the final qualifying spot in tenth on 61.16 points.

Competing in challenging weather conditions, Coady opened the women’s best‑of‑two‑run final with the third‑highest score of the round, posting 65.46 points. She was unable to improve on her second run and ultimately finished fourth. Stalker finished ninth, with her best score of 34.10 coming on her second run.

In the men’s final, Guseli’s strongest score came in the opening run, where he recorded 59.23 points. Unable to improve on his second attempt, he finished in ninth place overall, his best slopestyle result of the season.

Outside the finals, Joshua Robertson‑Hahn recorded a personal best World Cup slopestyle result, finishing 18th, while Jesse Parkinson was 48th.

The final snowboard park & pipe World Cup events of the season will take place in the Corvatsch park in Silvaplana, Switzerland. Halfpipe qualifying is scheduled for March 25, followed by finals on March 28, while slopestyle qualifying will be held across March 26 and 27, then the final on March 29.

Guseli will contest both events in Switzerland and currently sits second on both the World Cup halfpipe and overall park & pipe standings. In halfpipe, he has accumulated 350 points, trailing Olympic gold medallist Yuto Totsuka by 46 points. Guseli also sits second in the overall standings, just 17 points behind Totsuka heading into the final events of the season.