Megan Oldham of Parry Sound, Ont., shone again at the freestyle skiing world championships, capturing a silver medal in women’s slopestyle Tuesday after finishing 2-10ths of a point behind Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland.
Third after scoring 80.88 on her first run, Oldham took advantage when Norway’s Johanne Killi and Gremaud struggled, earning 87.75 from the judges for her second and final run in Bakuriani, Georgia.
In her 2021 worlds debut, the 21-year-old collected bronze in Aspen, Colo.
Gremaud stood atop the medal podium on Tuesday, thanks to a stellar opening run that scored 87.95. Killi racked up 84.71 points for bronze.
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On Jan. 28 in Aspen, Oldham made action sports history when she landed the first-ever triple cork in a women’s ski or snowboard event on the way to winning an X Games gold medal in the ski big air final.
Oldham was a silver medallist the previous year in Aspen and fourth in big air at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing last February.
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Oldham earned a perfect score of 50 points with the leftside triple cork 1440 on her third of five runs. The Canadian added a rightside double cork 1260 later to end up with a winning overall score of 91 in the eight-athlete final.
Elsewhere on Tuesday, Max Moffatt finished fourth in men’s slopestyle, 1.53 points shy of bronze-medal position. The 24-year-old from Guelph, Ont., sat third after his 82.80 first run.
The Norwegian tandem of Birk Ruud (90.75) and Christian Nummedal (87.08), took gold and silver, while Switzerland’s Andri Ragettli scored 84.33 for bronze.
Snowboard, freestyle and freeski competition at worlds runs through this week, with events streamed live Friday through Sunday on CBCSports.ca, CBC Gem and the free CBC Sports app.
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