Galysheva bags moguls World Cup win in familiar surroundings

Galysheva became the first Kazakh skier to win moguls gold in a World Championships after victory in Utah last month, backing that up in style with her first World Cup victory since.

There was still work to be done however, the 26-year-old completing the job in style with a score of 79.69 to earn the gold medal.

Silver went to France's Perrine Laffont while Justine Dufoir-Lapointe of Canada bagged bronze, 3.05 points adrift of the victorious Galysheva, who accrued her second World Cup win this moguls season.

Laffont still leads the way in the overall standings despite seeing her run of three straight moguls and dual moguls successes ended, her points tally of 780 more than 200 clear of America's Jaelin Kauf in second place – proving enough for her to win the Crystal Globe as season champion.

The men's equivalent award had already been bagged by Mikael Kingsbury, the most successful male freestyle skier of all time.

But he wasn't able to celebrate his latest gong with victory, denied for only the second time this season by Ikuma Horishima who skied to victory.

He prevailed with a score of 81.72 while Canada's Kingsbury had to settle for second, 2.35 points further back, with Walter Wallberg of Sweden rounding out the podium.

Sportsbeat 2019