Johnson Posts Career-Best Finish at Mont Tremblant

Tess Johnson (Vail, Colo.) knocked on the door of her first podium finish at Mont Tremblant on Saturday, posting a career-best finish in fourth place. Brad Wilson (Butte, Mont.) was the top U.S. men’s finisher in 8th.

Johnson’s skiing was consistent all day. She qualified fourth going into finals and third going into super finals. Her run in super finals scored an impressive 84.34, but it wasn’t enough to match the third place score of 84.61 from Kazakstan’s Yulia Galysheva. Canada’s Justine Dufour-LaPointe and Andi Naude took home podiums in front of a home country crowd, finishing first and second.

The U.S. women advanced a total of four women, including Johnson, into finals. Keaton McCargo (Telluride, Colo.), Morgan Schild (Rochester, N.Y.) and Jaelin Kauf (Alta, Wyo.) finished eighth, 14th and 15th respectively.

On the men’s side, Wilson and Troy Murphy (Bethel, Maine) advanced to finals, but were unable to punch tickets to the super finals. Murphy finished 14th. Japan’s Ikuma Horishima bested Canada’s Mikael Kingsbury on his home turf to take home his first World Cup win of the season. Kazaksan’s Dmitriy Reikherd was third.

The moguls World Cup tour will now take a break and resume after the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. With all Olympic selection events in the books, the U.S. team headed to PyeongChang 2018 will be announced next week.

RESULTS
Men’s Moguls
Women’s Moguls