Mikaël Kingsbury is back in familiar surroundings atop the medal podium.
Competing in the dual moguls season opener on Sunday, the native of Deux-Montagnes, Que., scored 19.00 to beat Ikuma Horishima (16.00) in the big final a day after the Japanese athlete defeated the Canadian for the eighth time in the moguls event.
Kingsbury, 29, missed the top-six final Saturday and finished an uncharacteristic eighth at the World Cup event in Idre Fjäll.
The reigning Olympic and world champion has 67 World Cup victories for his career and 95 podium finishes.
Horishima’s victory on Saturday was his eighth over Kingsbury, who is pursuing a 10th consecutive World Cup season title.
WATCH | Kingsbury prevails in big final of dual moguls season opener:
Deux-Montagnes, Que.’s Mikaël Kingsbury placed 1st in the men’s dual moguls event during the FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup in Idre Fjall, Sweden. 3:10
Kingsbury defeated Martin Suire of France in the round of 16 before downing Bradley Wilson of the United States 22.00-13.00 in the quarter-finals.
The semifinals was more one-sided, with Kingsbury disposing of Sweden’s Oskar Elofsson 26.00-9.00.
2018 Olympic silver medallist breaks collarbone
Australian skier Matt Graham has seen his hopes of a second Olympic medal-winning performance in Beijing in February suffer a serious blow after undergoing surgery for a broken collarbone.
Graham, who won moguls silver in Pyeongchang, South Korea, crashed during a training run in Idre Fjäll ahead of Saturday’s competition.
The 27-year-old snapped two bones, according to Australian Associated Press, and will recuperate in Sydney after undergoing surgery in Sweden.
Graham had been in fourth place after qualifying but did not compete in the finals because of the crash.
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