The 21-year-old Wanaka rider overcame a 24 hour delay and challenging conditions on the course to top score on her first run of the day.<\/p>\n
She led the field opting for a backside 720 instead of a planned 1080 during the first run for a top mark of 81.30.<\/p>\n
The Beijing Winter Olympic slopestyle gold medallist’s second run scored 80.96 which kept her Austrian and British rivals at bay.<\/p>\n
Mia Brookes, the 16-year-old snowboarder from Great Britain, was second at the first slopestyle World Cup of her career, with Austrian snowboarder Anna Gasser rounding out the podium in third.<\/p>\n
Sadowski-Synnott was thrilled after a nervous wait for the rest of the women’s field to complete their final runs.<\/p>\n
“Mia’s run was so good and even watching Anna go down, it could have gone either way,” Sadowski-Synnott said.<\/p>\n
“I’m so stoked and so glad I put down that first run.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been dreaming of winning the LAAX Open since I started competing. The weather has been pretty nuts, practice was pretty crazy, so to have the sun come out for finals is super sick.”<\/p>\n
Sadowski-Synnott will be in action next weekend at the Aspen X Game, where she’ll look to defend her Big Air and Slopestyle gold medals.<\/p>\n
Tiarn Collins (Queenstown, 23) competed in the men’s slopestyle but was unable to complete his first run. He pulled off his second to finish 10th.<\/p>\n
Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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