Mari Fukada wins slopestyle in additional Olympic success for Japan

Mari Fukada wins slopestyle in additional Olympic success for Japan


Mari Fukada received Olympic gold within the girls’s slopestyle closing Wednesday whereas teammate Kokomo Murase took bronze to deliver Japan’s large medal haul on the Livigno snowboarding park to 9.

Between Fukada and Murase, defending slopestyle champion Zoi Sadowski-Synnott of New Zealand received her second silver in Italy after additionally ending the large air closing in second place.

Murase added the bronze to her gold in huge air.

Austria’s two-time huge air gold medalist Anna Gasser completed her Olympic profession with a Tenth-place end.

The Livigno slopestyle course consists of three rail parts and three jumps. Judges rating riders on their creativity, execution of tips and routine as an entire. Riders bought three probabilities to carry out their routines with solely their finest rating counting.

Earlier Wednesday, China’s Su Yiming received the boys’s slopestyle closing on his twenty second birthday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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