Canada's Kingsbury wins 4th consecutive dual moguls title at world championships

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Mikaël Kingsbury of Deux-Montagnes, Que., won his ninth vocation satellite title golden medal erstwhile helium won the men's dual moguls event, astatine the FIS freestyle satellite championships successful Corviglia, Switzerland.

Freestyle skiing prima grabs 9th vocation satellite title golden

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 21, 2025 12:02 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Male freestyle skier goes airborne, pictured upside down   with skis crossed, with mountains successful  background.

Mikael Kingsbury of Canada warms up anterior to the Men's Moguls Final successful the FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships 2025 connected March 19 successful Corviglia, St. Moritz, Switzerland. (David Ramos/Getty Images)

Canadian freestyle skiing prima Mikael Kingsbury won his 4th consecutive dual moguls rubric astatine the satellite championships Friday successful Corviglia, Switzerland.

Kingsbury, from Deux-Montagnes, Que., bushed Japanese rival Ikuma Horishima successful the last to seizure gold, portion Australia's Matt Graham won bronze.

Horishima prevented Kingsbury from a title four-peat successful moguls' azygous format connected Wednesday. The 32-year-old Kingsbury won metallic with 82.86 points successful the final, good down Horishima (89.03).

Kingsbury has present reached the podium successful 7 of 8 dual moguls events astatine the satellite championships, including 5 wins.

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Canada's Mikaël Kingsbury coasts to 9th vocation satellite title golden medal

Mikaël Kingsbury of Deux-Montagnes, Que., won his ninth vocation satellite title golden medal erstwhile helium won the men's dual moguls event, astatine the FIS freestyle satellite championships successful Corviglia, Switzerland. Kingsbury's hostile successful the large final, Japan's Ikuma Horishima, had been injured successful an earlier run, and helium each but conceded the triumph to Kingsbury.

In the women's event, Jessica Linton of North Vancouver, B.C., was the apical Canadian successful the seventh. Maia Schwinghammer of Saskatoon, who took bronze successful moguls connected Wednesday, finished 11th.

Kingsbury is coming disconnected different stellar World Cup play which saw him instrumentality location 3 Crystal Globes arsenic the moguls, dual moguls and wide moguls champion.

He defeated Horishima successful the last World Cup dual moguls lawsuit of the play past week successful Livigno, Italy, to leapfrog his Japanese rival into archetypal spot successful the play standings.

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