Freesk’s Big Air World Championship final featured great Finnish performance. Both Finnish calculators reached medals.
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Freesk’s Big Air World Cup final was jumped in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Finns were in the final in the men Elias Syrjä and in women Anni Kärävä. Both World Cup finals were very tough.
In the World Cup finals, three rounds were counted, of which the top two jumps came into force.
In men, Elias Syrjä received a whopping 91.75 for his first jump. However, the level of the finale was reported by the fact that after the opening round he was still “fifth”.
In the second round, Syrjä was able to jump and succeeded in raising its investment third before the final round.
Norwegian Birk Rood Raised the only one in the third round of the Finn. In this way, Syrjä was forced to improve his already staggering points.
It also succeeded and the Finn rose to the World Cup silver when he also passed the American star Mac Forehand.
The world championship was overwhelmed by a New Zealand Luca Harrington with points 192.00. Syrjä grabbed silver with 184.25 points. The bronze was taken by ROD with a score of 183.00.
Anni Kärävä succeeded in a tight place
As usual, Anni Kärävä fell stylishly and surely. The Finn received a fine total score of 163.00 from the first two rounds. Before the third round, Kärävä was in the World Championship silver.
In the third round, Kärävä managed to improve their opening round points. The improvement was also needed as two skiers had risen to the Finn.
This is how Kärävä took the World Cup bronze. Gold celebrated Italian Flora tabanelli With a score of 176.75. Silver got the Swiss Sarah Hoeff with points 170.75. The bronze points were 167.75.
The struggle for bronze was incredibly tight: Canada Olivia Asselin Only the Finn was left with 0.75 points.
The finals got a tremendous start when the Chinese calculator Linsha’s han Feelingly crashed his opening jump. He had to leave the finals.