March 13, 2021 - 3:32 PM
ASPEN, Colo. - Canada s Megan Oldham captured bronze in slopestyle in her freestyle skiing world championships debut on Saturday.
The 19-year-old from Parry Sound, Ont., who d won a pair of medals at the X Games last month at Aspen, held on for third despite a fall on the first rail on her opening run.
China s Eileen Gu won gold and made history in the process. She also won Friday s halfpipe finals becoming the first freestyle skier to win back-to-back gold in two different events at a world championships. Mathilde Grenaud of Switzerland was second.
On Oldham s third of three runs, she added a left double cork 1260 as her last jump, clinching her third-place finish.
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Utah 2019 slopestyle podium: N/A (cancelled due to weather)
Sierra Nevada 2017 slopestyle podium: G - Tess Ledeux (FRA), S - Emma Dahlstrom (SWE), B - Isabel Atkin (GBR)
Coming into the women’s big air and slopestyle competitions here in Aspen this week we see a bit of an interesting situation as far as the reigning gold medallist goes, as France’s Tess Ledeux is currently the owner of the most recent gold medals for both events - although both those titles from different World Championships.
Ledeux became the youngest-ever Freeski World Champion when she took the slopestyle win four years ago in Sierra Nevada, and then followed that up with the big air victory two years later at the Utah 2019 world champs. When the women’s slopestyle competition at Utah 2019 was cancelled due to unsafe weather conditions, Ledeux was left to own the crown for another couple of years.