Synnott digs deep to take gold in Women's Slopestyle finals
- 3 years ago
New Zealand's Zoi Sadowski-Synnott retained her slopestyle title at the FIS Snowboard and Freeski World Championships in Aspen, Colorado on Friday, but she had to dig deep to do so.
Jamie Anderson of the United States set the early standard with a first run worth 81.10 points and that looked like being enough to take the gold medal after Sadowski-Synnott took a painful tumble in her first effort and could only score 47.06 poits in her second.
But in the final round, the 20 year-old gold medalist from two years ago in Utah put it all together and a brillant run scoring 85.95 points meant the title was hers again.
Double Olympic champion Anderson had to settle for the silver, with Tess Coady of Australia picking up the bronze, her first top level medal in the sport.
Jamie Anderson of the United States set the early standard with a first run worth 81.10 points and that looked like being enough to take the gold medal after Sadowski-Synnott took a painful tumble in her first effort and could only score 47.06 poits in her second.
But in the final round, the 20 year-old gold medalist from two years ago in Utah put it all together and a brillant run scoring 85.95 points meant the title was hers again.
Double Olympic champion Anderson had to settle for the silver, with Tess Coady of Australia picking up the bronze, her first top level medal in the sport.