Holly Crawford has won the bronze medal in the second last event of the season, at Lake Placid, New York State, USA.

Rounding out the most successful weekend in Australian winter sports history, Torah Bright won the World Superpipe Championships in the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic pipe (see separate story).

The result drops her to second place on the World Cup standings behind main rival Manuela Laura Pesko, but still leaves her with a strong chance to take the title.

Torino silver medallist Gretchen Bleiler won the gold with 46.7 points, Pesko taking silver on 43.4 points.

Crawford pulled herself up to third position with a 39.8 points second run after falling in her first trip down the pipe.

It was her fifth podium result of the season.

She now has 4250 points, 150 behind Pesko, and needs to defeat the Swiss rider next weekend to claim what would be Australia's third winter sports title of the year.

OWI team-mate Hannah Trigger, in her first season on the World Cup, finished in 12th place on 27.3 points

In the men's event, Andrew Burton finished in seventh place on 39.1 points, his third top ten result of the season.

Along the way he executed his first cab 1080 in competition.

American Steven Fisher collected the gold with 47.5 points.

"It was fairly interesting day," Crawford said. "I was beaten and bashed by the pipe all through training and then in the first run, so it was nice to make it through the second run without completely knocking myself out."

"I'm looking forward to the final event next weekend. It's one of the bigger pipes so that should be good for me."

"In Calgary I was just 0.1 of a second behind Manuela, so I just have to get a good clean run and it should be alright."

The final event will take place in Stoneham, Canada, on Monday morning, March 19, Australian Eastern Summer time.