Mia Brookes produces career-best Big Air performance to secure World Cup silver in Edmonton

BySportsbeat

Updated 10/12/2023 at 15:43 GMT

Teenage sensation Mia Brookes put on a show in the Big Air event to produce a career-best score and claim World Cup silver in Edmonton, Canada. The 16-year-old and reigning slopestyle world champion made an impressive 176 points from her fantastic two opening jumps to soar to the summit of the overall standings. Zoi Sadowski-Synnott beat Brookes to gold, with Austria's Anna Gasser sealing bronze.

BEIJING, CHINA - DECEMBER 02: Mia Brookes of Great Britain competes in the Women's Snowboard Big Air Final during the FIS Freestyle Ski And Snowboard World Cup at The Big Air Shougang on December 02, 2023 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Im

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British teenage snowboard sensation Mia Brookes claimed the best Big Air World Cup result of her career with a stunning silver medal in Edmonton.

The reigning slopestyle world champion, 16, racked up 176 points from two brilliant opening jumps to soar to the summit of the overall standings in Canada.

Olympic slopestyle champion Zoi Sadowski-Synnott beat Brookes to gold, with Austria's Anna Gasser bagging bronze ahead of Japanese star Mari Fukada.

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Brookes, the 2022 junior Big Air world champion, became the youngest-ever winner of a senior global title in Bakuriani earlier this year and has now finished on the podium in three of her seven World Cup appearances.

And heading into this week's next World Cup event in Copper Mountain, Colorado, she said: "I'm really happy with how I rode.

"I wasn't able to put down my third run but that was okay because when I dropped in I knew I was on the podium."

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