Britain’s Mia Brookes has won the second big air contest of the FIS Snowboard World Cup season.
Seventeen-year-old Brookes claimed victory on Sunday on the Shougang Park big air jump with the highest-scoring run of the women’s competition.
The judges awarded Brookes 94.00 for the cab 1440 stalefish in her third run after the British teen managed just 52.00 for her first attempt at the same trick in her second run.
“I didn’t come in to win today, I just wanted to land my new tricks. So it’s sick to win it,” she said. “To win this with such a heavy field is crazy.”
Brookes’ final run put her in first place with a total score of 179.75 ahead of Japanese rider Mari Fukada’s 176.75, while two-time Olympic big air champion Anna Gasser (AUT) took third place on 169.00.
Five of the women’s eight finalists were Japanese, with Miyabi Onitsuka and Reira Iwabuchi finishing in fourth and fifth place respectively.
