Teenage phenom Gaon Choi (KOR) topped her third consecutive Halfpipe World Cup on Saturday in Laax (SUI) as reigning men’s World Champion Scotty James won the men’s event for a record fifth time to lead the first Oceania podium sweep in FIS history.
Seventeen-year-old Choi was the first rider to secure a win under the Laax lights on Saturday after she brushed off a heavy fall in her first attempt to top the women’s leaderboard with a second run score of 92.50.
Wearing the leader’s yellow bib, Choi began her winning run with a switch backside 720 stalefish, then a backside 900 stalefish, a frontside 1080 melon, a switch frontside 720 melon, and finished with a front 720 indy on her final hit.
The 17-year-old admitted the…