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Jakara wins dual moguls gold in Italy

 

Jakara wins dual moguls gold in Italy

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Jakara Anthony gold WC Valmalenco, Italy 2022

Olympic champion Jakara Anthony has continued her great form at the first competition since the Beijing Olympic Games, recording victory in the dual mogul World Cup event in Valmalenco, Italy.

Jakara has now won an incredible 10 medals this season, equalling Alisa Camplin and Britt Cox as the most successful Australian winter athletes in a single season, with two events remaining.

Jakara has now won an incredible 10 medals this season with two events remaining. She has tied Britt Cox and Alisa Camplin as the only Australian winter athletes to win 10 medals in a season.

Competing at the Italian resort, Jakara advanced through the dual mogul rounds comfortably to be in a gold medal dual against 2018 Olympic champion Perrine Laffont of France.

With her trademark corked 720 mute grab on the top air and high level turns, Jakara forced Laffont to ski to her limit in the final, with the French skier making a number of mistakes to give Jakara the fourth World Cup gold medal of her career. Judges gave Jakara the win with a score of 20 points to 15.

Rounding out the podium in third place was Olympic silver medallist Jaelin Kauf of the USA.

“I am so proud of how I skied,” the 23-year-old from Barwon Heads, Victoria said.

“It’s really tough in there. So to be able to put down consistent runs at the level I know I was capable of was my goal for this weekend and I achieved that. So I couldn’t be happier.”

Jakara will be aiming to win the first Crystal Globe World Cup title of her career at the World Cup final next weekend in Megeve, France, with a mogul event on Friday 18 March and dual moguls on Saturday 19 March.

Jakara is a chance at winning all three mogul skiing Crystal Globes this season. She is ranked first in the overall mogul and dual mogul World Cup standings, and is in third place in the single mogul  discipline.

“I am so excited to go to Megeve. We have just skied in the alps in Italy, and now we are heading back to the French alps.

It’s a really spectacular part of the world that I haven’t seen much before, so I am just so excited to go experience the mountains and ski some moguls.”

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