Kong and Roth crowned aerials World Champions in snowy Bakuriani
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Following some tough weather conditions over the last couple of days here at the Bakuriani 2023 FIS Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships, mother nature finally played along on Thursday and the aerials competition took to the skies in an exceptional display of high-flying action. There Kong Fanyu (CHN) took the win in the women’s event, while Noe Roth (SUI) stormed to victory over on the men’s side of things.
With women’s qualifications already completed on Tuesday and men’s qualifiers done earlier in the morning, the top athletes were all ready for their showdowns in the round of 12, hoping to qualify through the next round to fight for victory in the superfinal.
In the women’s event it was Kong (CHN) who was on fire all day long leading up to the superfinal, where her clean double Full-Full earned here a score of 85.30 points and the World Championships gold medal in the process.
Kong, the bronze medallist from the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games, stepped things up a notch on Thursday to claim the biggest win of her career, also snagging her second medal at the Bakuriani 2023 World Championships after her silver medal performance with Team China in the mixed team event.
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