Canada's Mikaël Kingsbury captures moguls silver for 8th World Cup medal of season

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jan 14, 2022 8:35 PM EST | Last Updated: January 15, 2022

Canada's Mikaël Kingsbury has collected yet different World Cup medal, taking metallic successful men's moguls successful Deer Valley, Utah, connected Friday.

Kingsbury finished with 82.84 points, conscionable down Ikuma Horishima of Japan, who scored 84.04. Sweden's Walter Wallberg came successful 3rd with 79.62 points.

Quebec City's Laurent Dumais finished 8th, followed by Brendan Kelly of Pemberton, B.C., successful 9th and Gabriel Dufresne of Joliette, Que., successful 10th.

WATCH | Kingsbury takes location moguls metallic astatine Deer Valley World Cup:

It was Kingsbury's 2nd medal successful 2 days, coming aft helium made his 100th World Cup podium quality Thursday with a gold-medal performance.

Kingsbury was successful presumption to triumph golden again connected Friday aft posting the apical score as the penultimate skier, but friendly rival Horishima beat him connected the last tally of the competition. Horishima finished down Kingsbury for metallic connected Thursday.

"I near a doorway unfastened for him for sure. I don't deliberation I skied my implicit best, but I skied ace good fixed the conditions. I besides knew Horishima was susceptible and motivated. In different benignant of situation, I mightiness person pushed the instrumentality a small spot much successful the mediate section," Kingsbury said.

"Overall, I'm satisfied. The information that I finished truthful adjacent to the golden — without adjacent utilizing each my proverbial weapons - keeps maine assured earlier the Games."

Kingsbury leads the wide World Cup moguls standings with 572 points, followed by Horishima with 560. The 29-year-old from Deux-Montagnes, Que., has 8 World Cup medals this season, including six gold.

"My assemblage feels good, I'm steadfast and I'm precise satisfied with my skiing - particularly connected a tally arsenic hard arsenic Deer Valley. So far, it's been a large commencement to the season, with an unthinkable January," Kingsbury said.

He is the reigning Olympic champion successful men's moguls and volition beryllium a favourite erstwhile helium heads to his 3rd Winter Games successful Beijing adjacent month.

WATCH | Kingsbury wins World Cup moguls gold:

Japan's Kawamura tops women's podium

Japan's Anri Kawamura won moguls golden successful the women's contention with 80.89 points — a day aft claiming silver. 

Australia's Jakara Anthony improved upon Thursday's bronze-medal show by winning metallic (80.38 points), portion France's Perrine Laffont took bronze with a people of 80.02.

Montreal's Chloé Dufour-Lapointe finished 15th with 71.96 points as the apical Canadian successful the women's event, and Maia Schwinghammer of Saskatoon besides cracked the top-20 by finishing 18th (66.21).

Whistler, B.C.'s Sofiane Gagnon, Montreal's Justine Dufour-Lapointe and Aurora, Ont.'s Berkley Brown finished 22nd, 23rd and 25th, respectively.