Japanese snowboarder Tsubaki Miki wins the women's parallel giant slalom on the first day of the FIS Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships.
Japanese 15-year-old Mari Fukada wins her first snowboard World Cup event in the women's big air and is joined on the podium by compatriot Miyabi Onitsuka in third.
Japan's Kaishu Hirano claims men's halfpipe bronze, while fellow Olympian and compatriot Mitsuki Ono finishes third among the women in the opening round of the snowboarding World Cup in Colorado.
Japanese snowboarders make a flying start to the park and pipe World Cup season, with Reira Iwabuchi and Takeru Otsuka topping the podium at the Big Air Chur Festival in Switzerland.
Olympic gold medal hopeful Ayumu Hirano wins the snowboard halfpipe crown at the season-ending Laax Open, claiming his first overall World Cup championship in the process.