A Kreischberg Cai Xuetong and Scotty James win world titles in halfpipe

Go to China and all & rsquo; Australia world titles in halfpipe snowboarding World Championships being held in Kreischberg, in the Austrian Land of Styria. The two finals were played at night.

Saturday 17 January 2015 6 minutes reading time

Among women won the Chinese Cai Xuetong, class of 1993, which gi & agrave; in the first run of the final six athletes had achieved a high score from the judges, 90,25 medium, but in the second run its evolutions on the half pipe have been awarded even with 94.25 points and then did very well in & rsquo; last run, 89.25. Naturally & egrave; score pi & ugrave; highest of the three that matters for the final and Cai & egrave; l won & rsquo; gold with 13 lengths ahead of Spanish Queralt Castellet, who got a score of 81.25 on the first attempt instascando l & rsquo; silver, and with a second run that earned 80.25 points, the 20 year-old French Clemence Grimal that in qualifying yesterday had scored the pi & ugrave; high, & egrave; secured the bronze. For all three medalists this is the first laurel important but Cai, that participant & ograve; very young at the Games in Vancouver in 2010, from 2010 to 2012 is & egrave; won three World Cups of 2011 and 2012 in the halfpipe and two World Cups General & ldquo; & rdquo ;, freestyle snowboarding her & egrave; a return to victory in FIS competitions after three years, since in HG Preworlds Stoneham 2012 he won his sixth, and so far last, race in the World Cup. Returning to the race today, is fourth & egrave; placed the Japanese Hikaru Oe (72.25), the fifth French Sophie Rodriguez (65.25), bronze in Stoneham, and the sixth one that was the most qualified & ugrave; known to the final, l & rsquo; Australian Torah Bright (57,00), Olympic gold in Vancouver in 2014 and silver in Sochi. Even among men the winner & egrave; young, born in 1994, but anch & rsquo; he had already & agrave; participated in the Games in Vancouver and at that & rsquo; when, at 15, was the pi & ugrave; young participant of all the & rsquo; Olympiad male: & egrave; l & rsquo; Australian Scotty James, winner of & rsquo; last World Cup halfpipe. In today's race James got immediately in the first run score of 91.50 for which he won the & rsquo; gold. Silver to Chinese Zhang Yiwei, 89,50 after the first attempt had reached 89.00 in the assessments of the judges. Bronze & egrave; went to 18-year old Slovenian Tim-Kevin Ravnjak, even in the men's race for all three guys on the podium & egrave; the first major medal. Fourth the great disappointment of the day, the Russian grew up in Switzerland and who competes for the Confederation Iouri Podlatchikov, Olympic champion in Sochi and world champion now retiring because he had won the title in 2013 in Stoneham two years after the & rsquo; Silver The Molina in 2011, his score of 84.25 in the third run not & egrave; enough for the third consecutive podium since Ravnjak anch & rsquo; he & Outdoors; last attempt got 89.25 points. Fifth Japanese Taki Hiraoka (82.50), the Olympic bronze & rsquo; last year and silver champion two years ago, sixth l & rsquo; Australian Kent Callister (82.25), seventh Swiss Christian Haller (75,00), the eighth South Korean Kwang-ki Lee, ninth and tenth Swiss David Habl & uuml; Tzel and Jan Scherrer. ASssenti the big US for its proximity to the Winter X-Games happening from from Wednesday & Igrave; 21 to Sunday 25 in Aspen. No Italian athlete was present in the qualifiers. The program champion of snowboarding continues Monday & Igrave; with male and female slopestyle qualifiers.

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