SNOWBOARD HALFPIPE: A brilliant effort from 17-year-old Emily Arthur during last weekend's half-pipe final of the 2016 U.S Revolution Tour landed her in fourth place as she continued her outstanding push up the world rankings.

The talented Aussie out of Woronora Heights in Sydney, fought hard in a highly-contested event against Olympic standard athletes to score 110 points in the opening halfpipe competition of the season at Colorado's Copper Mountain.

Currently ranked 13th in the world, Arthur has been in solid form since her silver medal at the Lillehammer 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games and will be one to watch in the coming years as she works towards PyeongChang in 2018.

She finished fourth behind China's Jiayu Liu (220 points) and Xuetong Cai (176 points) and America's Maddie Mastro in third (132 points).

In the Men’s field, Nathan Johnston finished with a score of 70.40 to sit in an impressive 8th in the final standings, while Scotty James and Kent Callister did not compete.

OWIA