With Kawamura in top spot, Laffont finished the competition in second place, which was her fifth top-3 finish in five competitions so far in the 2022/23 World Cup campaign.
Saturday’s winner Jakara Anthony rounded out the women’s podium in third place after edging out Avital Carroll (AUT) in the small final matchup.
Despite missing out on the podium finish this weekend, Carroll recorded her career’s best results in Alpe d’Huez with a fifth place in single moguls and fourth spot in duals. It was also the best result for the Austrian Moguls Team since Margarita Marbler’s second place in Sierra Nevada back in 2010.
With the victory on Saturday, Kawamura also took the lead in the dual moguls standing, while Anthony maintained her overall moguls World Cup top spot with seven more competitions to go in the 2022/23 season.
Things were quite interesting also on the men’s side with plenty of tight and interesting clashes going down throughout the day. Also here, guys just kept on pushing their limits, which resulted in some spectacular crashes that fortunately didn’t cause any serious injuries.
One of the victim of the challenging course in Alpe d’ Huez was Mikael Kingsbury, who surprisingly crashed in his preliminary matchup against William Feneley (GBR) and for the first time since 2010 he didn’t qualify into finals.
WIth Kingsbury out of competition, it was Ikuma Horishima, who yet once again was the man on a mission, besting the likes of Yurato Murata (JPN), Severi Vierela (FIN) and Pavel Kolmakov (KAZ), before he matched up against Benjamin Cavet (FRA) in the big final.
There, Horishima remained calm, cool and in control keeping his turns tidy, his speed up and his wits about him to grab another huge win, his second of the weekend in Alpe d’Huez. In four starts in Alpe d’Huez over last two season, Horishima recorded three wins and one third place finish, making him the most successful athlete so far on this venue.
