Joh Shaw has claimed the second top five result of her World Cup snowboard career, riding to fifth place in the opening parallel slalom event of the 2008/09 season. Competing on a 250m indoor course in the Dutch city of Landgraaf, the 26 year-old Mt Buller rider qualified in fifth position, then defeated German rider Isabella Laboeck in her head-to-head round of 16 finals encounter.