Bitter bankruptcy for Gasser: Slopestyle without a medal at World Cup!

Bitter bankruptcy for Gasser: Slopestyle without a medal at World Cup!

At the Freestyle World Championships in the Swiss Engadine, an Austrian snowboarder Anna Gasser fulfilled a dream in the Slopestyle discipline. Although the 33-year-old was in third place after a strong first round with 80.71 points, she finally failed at the medal and landed fifth-only 2.84 points were missing from the podium. The New Zealand Olympic champion Zoi Sadowski Synnott secured the gold medal with an outstanding performance of 90.15 points, followed by the Japanese Kokomo Murase and Reira Iwabuchi with 87.02 and 83.55 points, such as laola1.at reported.

Gasser, who went into the race as a big favorite, showed a disappointing performance in the second round that ended with a fall. "This is bitter because I am always quite scarce in a slopestyle on one or two points and it is always not just out of the way," she said in an interview with ORF. This missed chance means that this World Cup has been without a medal for ten years now. The second Austrian participant, Hanna Karrer, also missed the final and Clemens Millauer failed early, so krone.at . However, Gasser will compete again in her parade discipline Big Air, where she is the defending champion. In an assessment of the upcoming challenges, she said: "The top 5 of today are also the favorites for the Big Air."