Australia’s winter sports athletes won three medals in two days at the end of last week, Torah Bright collecting back to back bronze in the 2006 Torino Olympic halfpipe, and Dale Begg-Smith winning another of the same colour in moguls in Naeba, Japan.

Bright made her first podiums for the season at the venue where she had claimed her maiden World Cup win at the end of last season. Team-mate Andrew Burton qualified in fifth place in the men’s event, eventually finishing in tenth place

For Begg-Smith, the Naeba bronze was the third podium in his past four starts, and the fifth straight top five result.

By the end of the second week in February, Australia could boast:
- the world’s number three in moguls (Begg-Smith)
- the world’s number five in women’s halfpipe (Bright) and 12 in men’s pipe (Burton)
- the world’s number two in aerial skiing (Lydia Ierodiaconou, despite being forced out of Saturday’s event), the number four (Jacqui Cooper) and number 10 (Liz Gardner).
(See separate discipline stories for details)