Top New Zealand freeskier Jossi Wells, of Wanaka, won the
halfpipe competition at the second stop on the Winter Dew
Tour at Snowbasin Resort in Utah, on Sunday.
Yesterday, he finished in fifth place in the slopestyle
competition of the same event, following a fall during his
first run of the finals.
Wells' halfpipe win bettered his performance at the first
stop of the Winter Dew Tour, at Breckenridge, Colorado, where
he finished second.
Wells sealed his first-place 92.50 during his first run,
landing a crowd-pleasing double flip and an allez-oop
flatspin during his winning run.
The result has earned him the lead spot in the Winter Dew
Tour halfpipe rankings.
However, Wells remains off the pace in slopestyle, the
discipline in which he won silver at the Winter X Games.
The Wanaka teenager is in eighth place in the tour slopestyle
rankings.
Paralympic alpine skier Adam Hall was another of Otago's top
snowsports athletes to taste success at the weekend, when he
won gold in a slalom at the International Paralympic
Committee (IPC) Alpine Skiing World Cup races in Abtenau,
Austria.
Outram-born skier Hall had struggled with ill health in
recent weeks and the gold medal result marked a welcome
return to form, he said.
"I was really happy to make a comeback and win today.
"It has been two years since I won my last world cup
[event]."
The result increased his confidence as he worked towards his
goal of winning gold at the Paralympic Games in Vancouver in
March, he said.
Queenstown-based snowboarder Shelly Gotlieb said she could
have executed a cleaner run, after she finished fifth in the
women's slopestyle at the European Burton Open on Saturday
(NZ time).
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