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Horishima stuns Kingsbury on return to moguls World Cup action
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Published 03/03/2018 at 14:42 GMT
Home favourite Ikuma Horishima upset Olympic champion Mikael Kingsbury by claiming the first men's World Cup moguls title following the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics.
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Kingsbury backed up his Sochi 2014 silver with gold on the South Korean slopes but found himself back on the second step of the podium in Tazawako.
But for Horishima it was a second World Cup win of the season, backing up the victory he secured on Kingsbury's home patch of Quebec – ending the Canadian's run of 13 straight World Cup wins in succession.
This one came with a score of 91.03, nearly two points ahead of Kingsbury, while bronze went to Dmitriy Reikherd of Kazakhstan.
It's the Canadian Kingsbury who still holds the freestyle skiing World Cup lead however, ahead of Reikherd, with Russia's Maxim Burov back in third place.
There were no such problems for Olympic gold medallist Perrine Laffont however, with the teenager backing up her PyeongChang performance with more World Cup honours, now leading the standings.
The post-Games festivities failed to keep the French skier distracted as a score of 83.03 was enough for her to take victory, second place going to Justine Dufour-Lapointe.
That replicated the silver medal she had to settle for in South Korea too, failing to defend the title she won in Sochi, scoring 81.33 in Japan this weekend.
American Keaton McCargo took the bronze medal to move up to seventh in the moguls World Cup standings, though it's Laffont who leads the way ahead of Jaelin Kauf and Andi Naude.
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