Émile Nadeau of Prévost, Que., improved on his greatest aerials efficiency of the season, incomes a bronze medal at Sunday’s World Cup occasion in Lac-Beauport, Que., after inserting seventh a day earlier.
Nadeau, 21, earned 95.98 factors behind the Chinese language tandem of Qi Guangpu (110.56) and Wang Xindi (105.88) for his first particular person podium end of the season on the circuit.
A yr in the past, Nadeau collected bronze in Lac-Beauport, scoring 105.30 factors to edge China’s Zhang Yifan (103.10).
Qi, the reigning Olympic champion, and Wang had been additionally 1-2 in final yr’s competitors.
WATCH | Nadeau scores 95.98 factors to achieve medal podium:
Canada’s Emile Nadeau captures his 1st World Cup aerials medal of the season
Prévost, Quebec’s Emile Nadeau claimed World Cup aerials bronze medal on residence soil in Lac Beauport, Que., Sunday
Miha Fontaine of Lac-Beauport and Quebec Metropolis’s Alexandre Duchaine had been tenth and eleventh on Sunday, respectively. Duchaine was fifth in Saturday’s tremendous closing.
Maybe Marion Thénault ran out of vitality within the ladies’s occasion.
The 24-year-old from Sherbrooke, Que., who was bedridden by a extreme virus earlier within the week, was sixth within the tremendous closing on Sunday.
She scored 69.97 behind podium finishers Laura Peel of Australia (102.17), American Karenna Elliott (87.42) and Australia’s Airleigh Frigo (76.85).
Thenault additionally competed this weekend after harm her knee throughout {qualifications} per week in the past in Lake Placid, N.Y., the place she earned a final-round rating of 90.94 factors for bronze, the Canadian’s eleventh profession World Cup medal.
She positioned thirteenth in ladies’s qualifying on Saturday, falling simply 0.26 factors in need of a spot within the closing.
She wanted to achieve the rostrum in each particular person occasions this weekend to safe her Olympic qualification. Nonetheless, Thenault could have extra alternatives to qualify later within the season.
WATCH | Full replay protection of Sunday’s aerials occasion from Quebec:
FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup Lac-Beauport: Aerials
Watch Sunday’s aerials competitors on the FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup cease in Lac-Beauport, Que.
