With his second-place finish, Moffat grabbed his second slopestyle World Cup podium of the season, after he also finished runner-up to Ruud at the 2021/22 campaign opener in Stubai (AUT). And, like Ruud, Moffat was able to make a big jump on the slopestyle World Cup leaderboard on Saturday, as the 23-year-old moved into third place behind his Norwegian competitor with one competition left to go in the season.
For 27-year-old Tjader, the third-place finish gave him his first World Cup podium in just over two years, and comes three-and-a-half weeks after he earned slopestyle bronze at the Games in Beijing.
Because the women’s qualifications were cancelled due to the wind on Friday and no competition phases could be run on Saturday, we were unfortunately unable to award a women’s podium in Tignes.
With no result in Tignes, Kelly Sildaru of Estonia remains atop of the women’s slopestyle World Cup standings with 200 points, followed by Sarah Hoefflin (SUI) with 160 points, and Megan Oldham (CAN) and Marin Hamill (USA), who both have 136 points.
Finally, it can be confirmed that Eileen Gu (CHN) will claim this season’s Freeski overall crystal globe on the women’s side of things, as with 580 points to Sildaru’s 369, the 18-year-old representative of China has been untouchable since results came in last week in Bakuriani (GEO).
With Tignes now behind us we look forward to the 2021/22 FIS Freeski World Cup finals in Silvaplana (SUI), which are going down in two week’s time with qualifications on March 24th, and finals on the 26th.
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