Canada's Cassie Sharpe caps comeback season with halfpipe bronze at freeski worlds

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Canadian freestyle skier Cassie Sharpe returned to the podium astatine the satellite championships for the archetypal clip since 2019 with bronze successful the women's halfpipe lawsuit connected Sunday in Corvatsch, Switzerland.

Comox, B.C., autochthonal returns to world-championship podium for 1st clip since 2019

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· Posted: Mar 30, 2025 1:20 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

A pistillate  freestyle skier yells successful  solemnisation  connected  a podium.

Canadian freestyle skier Cassie Sharpe celebrates aft reaching the podium successful the women's halfpipe lawsuit astatine the FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships successful Corvatsch, Switzerland, connected Sunday. (Mayk Wendt/Keystone via The Associated Press)

Canadian freestyle skier Cassie Sharpe returned to the podium astatine the satellite championships for the archetypal clip since 2019 with bronze successful the women's halfpipe lawsuit connected Sunday in Corvatsch, Switzerland.

The 32-year-old from Comox, B.C., earned a people of 88.00, beating retired chap Canadian Rachel Karker (86.25) for 3rd spot connected the last time of contention astatine the FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships.

Great Britain's Zoe Atkin won gold with 93.50 points, capturing her archetypal vocation satellite title.

China's Li Fanghui (93.00) finished up of Sharpe for the metallic medal.

WATCH l Sharpe soars to halfpipe bronze:

Canada's Cassie Sharpe claims freeski halfpipe bronze medal astatine satellite championships

Comox, B.C.'s Cassie Sharpe took bronze astatine Sunday's freeski halfpipe satellite championships successful Engadin, Switzerland.

Sharpe, who won Olympic halfpipe golden successful 2018 and metallic successful 2022, made her comeback to the athletics successful September aft taking a two-season interruption pursuing the commencement of her daughter, Louella, successful 2023.

She won metallic successful the lawsuit astatine worlds successful 2015 and 2019.

WATCH l Get to cognize Canada's sisterhood of the superpipe:

Get to cognize Canada's sisterhood of the superpipe

Cassie Sharpe, Rachael Karker, Amy Fraser and Dillan Glennie are each ranked top-10 successful the satellite successful women's freeski halfpipe.

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