After finishing second on four previous occasions, Lydia Lassila sealed her first World Cup title with a bronze medal in the final event of the season in Moscow.

That Russian result took her season tally to two gold and two bronze and her career medal victories to nine gold and 18 minor medals, a total of 27 podium placings in 55 World Cup events.

After winning consecutive World Cup titles in 2007 and 2008, Jacqui Cooper only made one podium on World Cup this season.

But she received ample compensation for that by becoming the first Australian winter sports athlete to win three World Championship medals, collecting bronze in Inawashiro at the end of the season.

Cooper had won the world title back in 1999 in Meiringen, then her first bronze in Madonna di Campiglio in 2007.

Team-mate Liz Gardner landed her first triple somersaults in World Cup competition, while Bree Munro, in her first season since 2005/06, produced three top ten results in World Cup events and placed ninth in the World Championships.

And for the first time in ten years, Australia had a representative in men’s aerial skiing, David Morris jumping to a very creditable 18th in the World Championships.