Canada Win’s Dual Mogul’s

Canada continued its FIS World Championships mogul domination here today with Alex Bilodeau and Chloé Dufour-Lapointe winning the dual mogul titles and Wednesday’s single mogul World Champion Mikael Kingsbury winning silver in exciting head-to-head action.

With the win, reigning Olympic Champion Bilodeau became the first man to win three consecutive world championships in dual moguls.
After beating today’s bronze medalist, Patrick Deneen of the USA, Bilodeau faced teammate Mikael Kingsbury in the final round in a repeat performance from 2011 Worlds in Deer Valley when Bilodeau and Kingsbury also faced each other in the finals.

But today’s race was a dual for the history books, with both men going full out and throwing huge airs. In the end Bilodeau just edged Kingsbury with a score of 18 to 17.

Kingsbury agreed that the dual with Bilodeau was very close. “It was a good on for sure. I always need to push and focus when I’m skiing. And in duals I’m always saying the same words, ‘never give up.’ Today could have gone both ways like people said, but I’m happy with my performance and my skiing.”

The young man from Deux-Montagnes, who has won six World Cups this season and has 28 World Cup podiums, added that it was unfortunate he also had to go up against teammates Marc-Antoine Gagnon and Phil Marquis en route to finals.

Marquis ended the day in seventh while Gagnon was 15^th. Cedric Rochon of St. Sauveur was 30^th after the qualification round.
Newly crowned World Champion Chloé Dufour-Lapointe faced her toughest dual in the first round when she her faced little sister, Justine.

After beating Justine, everything else was smooth sailing as Chloé confidently beat Nikola Sudova (Czech Republic) and Heather McPhie (US) on her way to an exciting final dual with Miki Ito of Japan.

She was the epitome of collected confidence on the course, the 21-year-old from Montreal could hardly contain her emotions in the finish as she broke down in tears when she realized what she had accomplished. Hannah Kearney of the US took the bronze medal.

Rookie Andi Naude of Penticton was the next best Canadian woman in seventh after losing in the quarterfinals to Kearney.

Audrey Robichaud of Quebec City was ninth, and Justine Dufour-Lapointe finished 15^th.

So far, Canada has raked in seven medals in these World Championships, which continue tomorrow with slope style where JF Houle of Drummondville, Que., Kaya Turski (Montreal) Dara Howell (Huntsville) and Yuki Tsubota (Pemberton) will make their runs for the podium.

Thanks to Canada Free Style for the info