Moguls World Cup resumes in Tremblant
Jan 07, 2022·Freestyle
Following the holidays break, also the FIS Freestyle Ski Moguls World Cup is finally set to come back in action this weekend with the sixth and seventh competition of the 2021/22 season rolling into Quebec’s Mont Tremblant (CAN) on Friday and Saturday, January 7-8.
Known as the heart of Canadian moguls skiing - Mont Tremblant will host its fourth World Cup event in recent years, after Freestyle Canada moved over to the new location for their annual moguls event in 2017/18.
Despite the recent relocation to Tremblant, it’s worth noting that the resort has a deep history of hosting World Cup competition, with moguls and aerials events stage here regularly from 1996 to 2005. And once again this season the classic venue of the Flying Mile run on the mountain’s south side will be the stage of one of the most anticipated competition in the region.
With two full days of world’s best moguls action hitting the renowned Quebec resort on Friday and Saturday, expect the women and men of the moguls World Cup to put on an exceptional show as they look to head into the world championships on a high.
Quebec has long been the locus of Canadian moguls skiing, producing some of the greats of the sport in the past and of the present, with the 2018 Olympic Winter Games medallists Justine Dufour-Lapointe and Mikael Kingsbury in the house this weekend ready to lead the Canadian squad in front of the home crowd.
Kingsbury, reigning Olympic champion, will be dropping against the likes of the current moguls and overall moguls World Cup leader Ikuma Horishima of Japan and his teammate Kosuke Sugimoto, as well as Pavel Kolmakov of Kazakhstan, his closest rivals in the moguls World Cup ranking.
But Kingsbury will be competing just 20 minutes away from his hometown of Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts and with two victories and one second place finish at the venue in Mont-Tremblant, expect Kingsbury to show his best skiing again this weekend.
Then let’s not forget about Sweden’s young guns Walter Wallberg and Albin Holmgren as well as Canada’s duo of Kerrian Chunlaud and Gabriel Dufresne, who will be looking to push for a a good result in front of the home crowd.
On the women’s side of the event Jakara Anthony of Australia will try to extend her lead in the World Cup ranking following her very successful start into 2021/22. Anthony finished on the podium in each of five competitions staged so far in the season and she is coming off of a back-to-back victories on a challenging course in Alpe d’Huez (FRA). Without a doubt she is a huge favourite for victory at Mont Tremblant.
But to do that she will have to edge out her biggest rivals: Anri Kawamura (JPN), Perrine Laffont (FRA), Tess Johnson (USA) and Olivia Giaccio (USA), the moguls World the moguls World Cup top-5 up to this point of the season.
The qualifications on Friday and Saturday are set to start with women at 9:05 local time and men following up at 11:20. The finals on both days will go down at 14:00.
WATCH LIVE
Friday
Eurosport player (Asia + Europe), CBC Streaming (Canada), CCTV (China), CT Sport (Czech Republic), Viaplay (Denmark), V Sport+ (Finland), streaming on Arena 4+ (Hungary), JSPORT 1 (Japan), V Sport + (Norway), Polsat Sport News (Poland), Viaplay (Sweden), streaming on https://skiandsnowboard.live/ (USA), FIS Freestyle Youtube channel
Saturday
Eurosport 2 (Asia + Europe), CBC TV (Canada), CCTV (China), Viaplay (Denmark), V Sport+ (Finland), Arena 4+ (Hungary), JSPORT 1 (Japan), V Sport + (Norway), Polsat Sport News (Poland), Viaplay (Sweden), streaming on https://skiandsnowboard.live/ (USA), FIS Freestyle Youtube channel
QUICK LINKS:
Tremblant World Cup FIS data page (start lists, results, etc.)
