Two more Australian winter sports athletes have won World Cup medals during the weekend, while Holly Crawford has retained her position as the number one World Cup snowboard halfpipe rider.
Crawford's halfpipe team-mate Andrew Burton collected bronze, the first World Cup medal of his career, and former mogul skier Davina Williams won silver in her very first World Cup outing in the relatively new sport of ski halfpipe
Competing in the Korean resort of Sungwoo, against a field that was reduced in size due to rival pro events in Japan and the United States, Burton qualified in first place with a score of 44.4 points.
In the final, Canadian Jeff Batchelor was too strong for the Australian, taking the gold medal with a score of 45.0 from Dolf van der Wal of the Netherlands, on 42.2 points.
Burton held on for bronze with 41.3 points.
Crawford also qualified in first place in Sungwoo, with an impressive 44.9 best run.
But in the final, the 23-year-old Sydney rider fell in both of her runs, managing just 16.5 points for her best score and ending in fifth place.
The gold medal went to Paulina Ligocka of Poland.
Crawford retains her World Cup standings lead on 2700 points, 300 clear of Ligocka on 2400. Manuela Pesko of Switzerland is in third place on 1600 points.
"Unfortunately Holly was not feeling the pipe too well today and the falls ended any chance she had for a medal," said Olympic Winter Institute Halfpipe Coach Ben Wordsworth.
"But Andrew put together a very solid performance, demonstrating some huge airs and technical spins."
"His frontside 7s were some of the biggest tricks all day in the men’s field, and his first podium will give him a huge boost going into next week’s double event in Calgary."
Meanwhile on the other side of the Pacific, in Apex, British Columbia, Williams became the third Australian for the weekend to qualify in first place, earning a best score of 29.7 points.
In the final she stepped up a level, scoring 34.8 points for her best run, but that was not enough to defeat US skier Jessica Cumming, who reeled off 36.3 points opening run in the final to take the gold. Jennifer Hudak, also from the USA, won the bronze on 31.2 points.
Williams competed in mogul skiing on the World Cup circuit from 2002 to 2004 until injury interrupted her career. Her best result was a 16th placing in Inawashiro, Japan, in February 2004.
