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How to Watch the FIS Freestyle, Freeski & Snowboard World Championships

By U.S. Ski & Snowboard
February, 19 2023
Georgia World Champs
Freestyle skiers, freeskiers and snowboarders descend upon Georgia to compete in the World Championships, Feb. 19-March 5. (FIS)

The FIS Freestyle, Freeski & Snowboard World Championships kicks off on February 19, featuring some of the best U.S. skiers and riders competing for medals in Bakuriani, Georgia. Tune in on Peacock and skiandsnowboard.live to watch it all, with delayed coverage on NBC and CNBC.

2023 FIS Freestyle, Freeski & Snowboard World Championships Live Coverage
All times EST
Check local listings, subject to change

Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023
3:00 a.m. - men’s and women’s snowboard parallel giant slalom - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live
5:30 a.m. - mixed team aerials - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live

Tuesday, Feb. 21
4:00 a.m. - men’s and women’s snowboard parallel slalom - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live

Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023
4:00 a.m. - snowboard team parallel slalom - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live
5:00 a.m. - men's and women's aerials finals - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live

Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023
5:30 a.m. - men's and women's moguls finals - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live

Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023
5:30 a.m. - men's and women's dual moguls - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live

Monday, Feb. 27
4:00 a.m. - men’s and women’s snowboard slopestyle finals - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live

Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023
4:00 a.m. – men’s and women’s freeski slopestyle – Peacockskiandsnowboard.live

Friday, March 3
1:00 a.m. - men’s and women’s snowboard halfpipe finals - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live
5:30 a.m. - men’s and women’s snowboardcross - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live

Saturday, March 4
1:00 a.m. – men’s and women’s freeski halfpipe finals – Peacockskiandsnowboard.live
5:30 a.m. - team snowboardcross - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live

Sunday, March 5
1:00 a.m. – men’s and women’s freeski big air finals – Peacockskiandsnowboard.live
5:00 a.m. - men’s and women’s snowboard big air finals - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live

Team USA Golden in Mixed Team Aerials World Ski Championships

By U.S. Ski & Snowboard
February, 19 2023
Team USA wins gold
Aerials opened the FIS Freestyle World Championships in Bakuriani, Georgia, by winning gold at the Mixed Team event on February 19. Ashley Caldwell, Chris Lillis and Quinn Dehlinger represented Team USA with Kaila Kuhn and Justin Schoenefeld serving as alternates. (© Miha Matavz/FIS)

Aerials opened the FIS Freestyle World Championships in Bakuriani, Georgia, by winning gold at the mixed team event on February 19. Ashley Caldwell, Chris Lillis and Quinn Dehlinger represented Team USA with Kaila Kuhn and Justin Schoenefeld serving as alternates. Team USA has proven a force in mixed team aerials, winning the Olympic gold in Beijing in 2022 and World Championship bronze in 2021. 

Challenging wind conditions made it impossible for Team USA to train the day prior, and provided for variable conditions for the actual event. 

“Our coaches were amazing today,” explained Chris Lillis. “That’s (monitoring the wind) their job; they handle the wind adjustments. They put us in the right spot all day long and because of that we won the World Champs.”

Caldwell ran first in the qualification round, landing her full full to set the tone for Team USA for the next five jumps. Lillis and Dehlinger performed double-full full full. The combined score of 303.47 was the highest of the five nations competing, and USA went into the medal round seeded first. 

For the medal round, Caldwell stomped a full double-full and had to wait in anticipation while her teammates prepared to jump for World Championship glory. Lillis performed a beautiful double-full full full to set Dehlinger up to take Team USA over the finish line. Dehlinger landed his double-full full full and sealed Team USA’s position as winners of the 2023 World Championships mixed team aerials event with a combined score of 331.37. Team China came in second and Team Ukraine came in third. 

With this result, Caldwell and Lillis add another piece to their World Championships hardware collection: the fourth for Caldwell and third for Lillis. This marks Dehlinger’s first official World Championships start, having qualified in 2021 but did not compete. “I feel amazing. It's unbelievable that we went out here today and put down the jumps that we did and came out with the results that we did,” he said. “But at the same time, we knew what we were capable of and we just had to go out and perform.”

“Georgia’s been wonderful,” reflected Caldwell. “I knew this team was going to be one to beat and I wanted to be here for my teammates, and now I’m team World Champion. Most of my career has always been individual, so to switch to a team element, it’s more anxiety, more pressure, because everyone’s relying on you. But Team USA is stacked, we have a high degree of difficulty and we have this camaraderie and bond. We rock team events.”

Aerials continues World Ski Championship competition with singles qualifications Feb. 21 and finals Feb. 22. 

“We’re excited for the next event, let’s go!” said Caldwell.

RESULTS
Mixed Team Aerials

2023 FIS Freestyle World Championships Live Coverage
All times EST
Check local listings, subject to change

Feb. 22, 2023
5:00 a.m. - men's and women's aerials finals - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live

Feb. 25, 2023
5:30 a.m. - men's and women's moguls finals - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live

Feb. 26, 2023
5:30 a.m. - men's and women's dual moguls - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live

Silver for Shiffrin in World Championships Slalom

By Courtney Harkins
February, 18 2023
Shiffrin Courchevel
Mikaela Shiffrin celebrates her World Championships silver medal with Laurence St-Germain (gold) and Lena Duerr (bronze). (Getty Images/Agence Zoom - Giovanni Auletta)

Mikaela Shiffrin of the Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team won her third medal to finish out the 2023 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Meribel-Courchevel, taking second place and a silver medal in the slalom. It is Shiffrin’s 14th World Championship medal in her career—the most of any alpine skier in the modern era.

Laurence St-Germain, a University of Vermont All-American who races for Canada, continued Canada’s incredible World Champs by winning a gold medal. This was the first time St-Germain has finished in the top five in a World Cup-level ski race and it is the first slalom gold for Canada in 63 years. Laurence started bib 18, finished third after first run and jumped up to the top of the podium after an aggressive second run. Lena Duerr of Germany, a regular on slalom Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup podiums, was third to win her first career World Championship medal.

“Today was incredible,” said Shiffrin. “It was such a joy to race today, especially after the last two weeks and everything that has happened. … I was so happy with my first run and really happy with a lot of sections on my second run. Here and there, I backed off a little bit and it’s not enough for gold. And Laurence—what an exciting day for the Canadian team! Really really happy for them.”

Shiffrin held the lead after first run, but tricky light and deteriorating snow, along with exhaustion following a long two weeks of racing, slowed her down to finish just behind St-Germain in second place.

“For me, it wasn’t the conditions; it was the end of two weeks,” said Shiffrin. “If I’m a little bit tired, I cannot move quick enough in slalom. I can move quick enough, of course, I have a silver medal, but somebody can move faster. I know how I want to ski it, but I didn’t execute it the whole way from top to bottom so it’s not enough for gold. You can lose a second so fast.”

Shiffrin holds more World Champs medals than any athlete in modern alpine skiing history. She broke the record with her gold medal win in the giant slalom on Thursday and continues to build on the record with her 14th medal today. She also has seven World Championship gold medals, which is tied for the record of most gold medals in history.

Katie Hensien, who won a World Championship gold in the team event earlier in the week, finished 26th. “I was really happy about my first run—some mistakes but all in all some solid skiing,” said Hensien. “Second run wasn’t it for me, but I’m happy to take away two runs today. Plus my GS performance, I’m happy I’m taking the right steps forward and it’s showing.”

Rounding out the Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team, Nina O’Brien did not finish her first run and Ava Sunshine did not finish the second. Paula Moltzan announced that she would be returning back to the U.S. for surgery after breaking her hand in the team parallel where she won gold and plans to return to the World Cup when she has recovered.

The athletes now head back to the World Cup circuit to finish out the year, with Shiffrin eying Ingemar Stenmark’s record of 86 World Cup wins. Shiffrin currently has 85 wins, one victory shy of the overall record. She is expected to compete next in Kvitfjell, Norway.

The World Championships wraps up tomorrow, Feb. 19, with the men’s slalom. Catch the replay of Shiffrin's gold medal-winning World Championships GS on NBC this afternoon at 2:30 p.m. ET and today's slalom race on NBC tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. ET. 

RESULTS
Women’s slalom

2023 FIS World Ski Championships Live Coverage Presented by Stifel Schedule

All times EST
Check local listings, subject to change.

Saturday, Feb. 18
2:30 p.m. - women's giant slalom - NBC*

Sunday, Feb. 19
4:00 a.m. - men's slalom (run 1) - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live
7:30 a.m. - men's slalom (run 2) - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live
3:00 p.m. - women's slalom - NBC*

*encore presentation 

Radamus 12th in World Championships Giant Slalom

By Sierra Ryder
February, 17 2023
Radamus Celebrates Second Run
Radamus Celebrates Second Run (CC: Getty Images)

On Friday’s World Championships giant slalom, River Radamus led the way for the Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team with a 12th place finish. Radamus notably the third fastest on his second run.

“I was disappointed in my first run, did not feel like I pushed hard enough,” said Radamus. “I realized I had nothing to lose so I laid it all out on my second run.”

First run was very difficult conditions with an extremely icy track and long course, leading to fatigue and mistakes by many skiers causing large gaps from the winning time. Almost five seconds separated first place and 30th.  On second run the time gaps closed a little making room for both Radamus and U.S. skier Brian McLaughlin to make moves up the results list.

The new giant slalom World Champion crown went to Swiss skier Marco Odermatt, who now has two gold medals from these races. Second place went to fellow teammate Loic Meillard and third place went to Austrian skier Marco Schwarz.

Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team athlete Tommy Ford also raced; he did not finish second run.

Now Radamus, Ford and McLaughlin will prepare for the Stifel Palisades Tahoe Cup giant slalom, part of the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, later this month.

“I am really excited, never raced at Palisades before and I have been missing racing for a home crowd so I can’t wait to go put on a show,” said Radamus.

The final men’s event for World Championships is the slalom on Sunday.

RESULTS

Men's giant slalom

HOW TO WATCH

Saturday, Feb. 18

4:00 a.m. - women's slalom (run 1) - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live

7:30 a.m. - women's slalom (run 2) - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live

2:30 p.m. - women's giant slalom - NBC*

Sunday, Feb. 19

4:00 a.m. - men's slalom (run 1) - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live

7:30 a.m. - men's slalom (run 2) - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live

3:00 p.m. - women's slalom - NBC*

*encore presentation 

2023 Copper Mountain Dew Tour Preview

By U.S. Ski & Snowboard
February, 16 2023
David Wise catching air in the Halfpipe.
The Dew Tour is returning to Copper Mtn, Feb. 24th-25th. (Mike Dawsy)

Next weekend, Copper Mountain Resort in Copper, Colo. will welcome back the best freeskiers and snowboarders for two days of unrivaled competition at the Dew Tour. Skiers and snowboarders from around the world will travel to Copper and compete in various events. Dew Tour kicks off Feb. 24th and goes until Sunday, Feb. 26th. 

This year, 14 U.S. Ski & Snowboard athletes were invited to compete in the slopestyle, halfpipe, super streetstyle, and superpipe high air & best trick jam contests. Dew Tours signature super streetstyle competition will be doubled in size this year which will allow for a larger, more diverse athlete pool and gives onsite spectators a better viewing experience. All invited halfpipe competitors will get the chance to compete in the superpipe high air & best trick jam, where they will showcase their amplitude, creativity, and style. 

Olympic gold medalist Alex Hall will be competing in the Dew Tour slopestyle event after having a very successful season thus far, with a silver medal at the Laax Open and multiple top 10 results. Hall will be a great skier to watch out for as he is hungry to add more podiums to his repertoire this season. Joining him will be teammate Colby Stevenson who is coming off of a win at the Kings & Queens of Corbet's in Jackson Hole, Wyo., as well as a gold medal at the Aspen X Games slopestyle event.  

Reigning 2021 Dew Tour gold medalist, Alex Ferriera, will be returning to the halfpipe to claim his title on Saturday, Feb. 25th, along with several teammates who have been around the world competing in World Cups, most recently in Calgary, Canada and Mammoth Lakes, Calif. 

On the snowboard front, Colorado locals Red Gerard and Taylor Gold are set to drop in. Gerard will compete in slopestyle and Gold in halfpipe. U.S. Snowboard Pro Team athlete Sonora Alba will be one of the halfpipe ladies to look out for during this event. Alba's first Dew Tour was back in 2020 which secured her a spot to the U.S. Burton Open and eventually landed her onto the U.S. Pro Snowboard Halfpipe team in 2021. In the 2022-23 season, the snowboarders have competed around the world, most recently in halfpipe and slopestyle contests in Laax, Switzerland, Aspen, Colo., Mammoth Mountain, Cali., and Calgary, Canada. 

Athletes

Freeski

  • Alex Hall
  • Colby Stevenson 
  • Aaron Blunk 
  • David Wise
  • Alex Ferreira 
  • Matt Labaugh

Snowboard

  • Red Gerard
  • Kaitlyn Adams
  • Sonny Alba
  • Bea Kim
  • Taylor Gold 
  • Ryan Wachendorfer 

Schedule 

For the most up to date schedule, click here.

Feb 25th, 2023

  • Men's Ski Superpipe Final
  • Women's Snowboard Superpipe Final 
  • Women’s Snowboard Super Streetstyle Qualifier and Final
  • Men’s Ski Super Streetstyle Qualifier and Final

Feb 26th, 2023

  • Men’s Snowboard Superpipe Final
  • Superpipe High Air & Best Trick Jam presented by U.S. Air Force
  • Women’s Ski Super Streetstyle Qualifier and Final
  • Men’s Snowboard Super Streetstyle Qualifier and Final

How to Watch 

Dew Tour (Available with Live Scoring!) 

Newschoolers 

Slush the Magazine 

Snowboarder

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Shiffrin World Champion in Giant Slalom

By Courtney Harkins
February, 16 2023
Mikaela Shiffrin Courchevel
Mikaela Shiffrin reacts to winning the World Championships gold in Meribel. (Getty Images/AFP - Alain Grosclaude)

On a sunny day in the French alps, Mikaela Shiffrin of the Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team won gold in the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships giant slalom. It is her 13th World Championships medal, securing her the record of the most individual World Championships medals from any skier in the modern era.

Nina O’Brien continued her fantastic World Championships after winning gold in the team event earlier this week, taking 11th place in the GS and a scorching second-fastest time in the second run.

Shiffrin, who has five GS wins on the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup this season, held the lead after the first run by .12 seconds over hometown French skier Tessa Worley. She skied confidently at the top of the run, but a bobble near the finish made the win uncertain. However, when she crossed the line, she had the lead by .19 seconds. Shiffrin gasped at the time, put her head in her hands and lay down in the snow.

Shiffrin had raced the giant slalom on the same track at World Cup Finals last season and had also held first place after first run, but finished in seventh after second run. It made this win that much sweeter.

“I feel really emotional right now," said Shiffrin after the race. “After last year's finals here, I was leading in the first run and the second run in the sun and I lost so much time, I was so sure it was going to be the same thing today. I’ve never been that nervous in my life. I honestly can’t believe it.”

It was Shiffrin’s first ever gold medal in a World Championships giant slalom and her seventh World Champs gold in history; she has gold in four slaloms, a super-G and an alpine combined from previous years. She had medaled in GS in the previous three World Champs, but this was her first win in the event. She had also not won a gold in any of her previous 10 events in the Olympics or World Championships until today.

“The most important thing all season is if I can just focus on really good skiing, so I tried to do the same today,” said Shiffrin, who is just one World Cup win away from becoming the winningest alpine skier of all time. “It was hard today. You get to World Championships and you want the medal so much and you get nervous—and it’s just harder!”

The win also broke the tie she set on February 8 with Norwegian skier Kjetil André Aamodt for the most individual World Championships medals in the modern era with 12 medals. Shiffrin now holds 13—and the record for the most medals. Having only started 16 World Champs races in her career, she has an 81% chance of taking home a medal every time she gets in the start gate.

Behind Shiffrin, Worley fell in her second run in did not finish. Federica Brignone of Italy took the silver and Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway was bronze.

Rounding out the Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team, Katie Hensien was 23rd. Hensien also had a very strong second run, placing seventh in the run and only .28 seconds off of Shiffrin.

This brings Shiffrin’s tally to two medals in Courchevel-Meribel. She took home a silver in the super-G last week, and will look for another medal in the slalom on Sunday.

The men next race giant slalom tomorrow, Feb. 17. Watch the re-air of the women’s giant slalom on Saturday at 2:30pm ET on NBC presented by Stifel.

RESULTS
Women's giant slalom

2023 FIS World Ski Championships Live Coverage Presented by Stifel Schedule

All times EST
Check local listings, subject to change.

Friday, Feb. 17
4:00 a.m. - men's giant slalom (run 1) - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live
7:30 a.m. - men's giant slalom (run 2) - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live

Saturday, Feb. 18
4:00 a.m. - women's slalom (run 1) - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live
7:30 a.m. - women's slalom (run 2) - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live
2:30 p.m. - women's giant slalom - NBC*

Sunday, Feb. 19
4:00 a.m. - men's slalom (run 1) - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live
7:30 a.m. - men's slalom (run 2) - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live
3:00 p.m. - women's slalom - NBC*

*encore presentation 

Stevenson Wins Kings & Queens of Corbet's

By U.S. Ski & Snowboard
February, 15 2023
Colby hugging fellow competitor after landing run
Colby Stevenson hugging a competitor after landing his run.

This past week, Feb. 4-11, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Jackson Hole, Wyo., held their sixth annual Kings & Queens of Corbet's event. U.S. Freeski Team athlete Colby Stevenson, who this season alone has won an X Games gold medal and had numerous top-10 World Cup results, was selected to participate and ultimately ended up winning the entire thing.

The King's & Queen's of Corbet's is a prestigious event held annually at one of the most legendary couloirs in the World. Invited skiers and snowboarders came together to huck themselves off of a 10-20 foot couloir into a steep chute with rock walls on each side. Throughout the 'course' there are several man-made features to give the athletes a chance to show more than one trick. First, you drop into the couloir and on the way to the bottom there are two large jumps that you can choose to go off of, otherwise, you are skiing and riding down variable backcountry terrain until you hit the finish area. Thankfully for the athletes, it had just snowed a good amount the night before the event, which provided soft landings for each competitor to showcase their tricks. 

Stevenson was one of the 24 invited athletes to compete at the most famous line in North America. Days prior to this event, Stevenson had just competed at the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix in Mammoth Lakes, CA, as well as X Games in Aspen, CO, where he earned a gold and silver medal. Following his success in the slopestyle world, he was able to translate those skills to the big mountain where he took the top spot for the Kings & Queens of Corbet's, among some of the best freeride skiers in the World. 

Stevenson reflects on what this experience meant to him, "It was so fun to compete in my first big mountain competition, and have it be in the famous Corbet's Couloir. Pretty wild to go from a month of slopestyle skiing straight into it, but was definitely in the competition mindset. Every person that agrees to do that event has a screw loose, so it was fun to watch everyone send it. I'm excited to push this side of my skiing a lot more in years to come." 

We look forward to seeing more backcountry skiing from Stevenson in the near future.

RESULTS

Men's 

WATCH THE RECAP 

Kings & Queens of Corbet's 2023

O’Brien and Radamus Race Individual Parallel

By Sierra Ryder
February, 15 2023
O'Brien Races in the Parallel
Nina O'Brien Races in the Individual Parallel (CC: Getty Images)

In Wednesday’s individual parallel event at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team athletes River Radamus and Nina O’Brien raced straight after a gold medal team event performance and qualifier the day prior.

After a run on both the red and blue courses, O’Brien and Radamus did not make it on to the next round, however their spirits remained high.

“I think this event is fun and I'm really happy that I qualified for the final. It was close at the end, and I tried,” said O’Brien. “I felt really locked in, skiing with a lot of confidence so I was excited to come in today but didn't risk enough on the first run I think I should have shifted into another gear,” said Radamus.

The winner for the women’s parallel went to Norwegian skier Maria Therese Tviberg, the silver went to Swiss skier Wendy Holdener and bronze went to Thea Louise Stjernesund. On the men’s side, the gold went to German skier Alexander Schmid, second place went to Austrian Dominik Raschner and third place went to Norwegian skier Timon Haugan. Regardless of Wednesday’s results, both American skiers are very excited about the golden result from Tuesday.

“I'll take the tradeoff of yesterday for being a little bit more tired today and not coming out firing the way I wanted to,” said Radamus.

“This is the first medal ceremony ever for me. I think we're all excited,” said O’Brien.

On Tuesday, the Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team skied to gold in the team parallel event. It was the first time USA has gotten a medal in this event at a World Championships.

Looking ahead it is a very busy technical event schedule for skiers racing multiple events with the women’s giant slalom on Thursday, men’s giant slalom Friday and slalom to close out the World Championships on Saturday and Sunday.

“It's a busy last few days for sure, but I feel like my skiing it's in a good spot," said O'Brien. "I'm so excited for GS."

The women’s giant slalom kicks off in Meribel at 3:45 a.m. ET.

RESULTS
Women's parallel
Men's parallel

HOW TO WATCH

Thursday, Feb. 15
3:45 a.m. - women's giant slalom - Peacockskiandsnowboard.live

USA Wins Gold in the World Championships Team Event

By Courtney Harkins
February, 14 2023
team gold
The Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team celebrates winning gold on the podium at the Courchevel-Meribel World Championships. (Getty Images - Alex Pantling)

The Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team dominated the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships team event, taking home their first ever parallel gold medal and the team’s second medal of the World Champs. The team was made up of athletes Nina O’Brien, Paula Moltzan, Tommy Ford and River Radamus for the starters, and Katie Hensien and Luke Winters as substitutes.

It was a bright and sunny day in Meribel, France on a short parallel race track that pits teams against each other from the start to the finish. Teams have a maximum of six competitors (four starters and two substitutes) with two men and two women. In each heat, teams face each other and race head-to-head with the first skier crossing the line to secure a point for their team. The first team to three points advances to the next round. If the heat is tied, the team with the fastest combined team between their quickest woman and man skier move onto the next round.

The Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team came in and quickly defeated Poland to make it to the quarterfinals, then took three of the four races in the semifinals against Italy to advance to the medal round. In the semifinals, the U.S. beat their North American compatriot Canadians to move onto the gold medal round where they faced the team event 2021 World Champions, the Norwegians.

“It’s incredible,” said Radamus. “To have it in my first event as a team makes it even more special to me. I love this team. All these people have been pushing so hard at this for a long time so to finally reach the summit for this team is really special.”

It was a close race that kept everyone on their toes. O’Brien had some trouble, but eeked out a win over Kristin Lysdahl. Radamus kept it close versus Alexander Steen Olsen, but lost by .04 seconds. The undefeated Moltzan faced Thea Louise Stjernesund and the two tied, which meant it came down to Ford to bring home the win. Ford faced Timon Haugan, who got stuck in the start gate and Ford was able to ski down into his teammates’ arms for the win.

The was the first ever medal in this event for the Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team, who just missed the medals in the 2022 Olympic Games, taking fourth place. It is also the first medal for all six athletes and the first team gold of the 2023 World Championships.

“It feels unbelievable,” said O’Brien. “But it’s six-times sweeter to share it with my teammates. We didn’t expect it. I felt really good about our team and knew we were skiing fast, but anything can happen in parallel. I’m really proud of everyone on our team and really happy to be a part of it.”

“It was great to be out there with the family, the team,” said Ford. “We all have strong skiing and I had faith in them and I just put down the best skiing I could. It just shows that we have some depth—we train together, we travel together all the time and we’re always pushing each other. It’s fun to actually work together!”

The Norwegians took silver. The Canadians continued their impressive World Championships performance with a bronze medal.

The parallel events continue next with men’s and women’s parallel qualifiers taking place today, Feb. 14, and finals tomorrow, Feb. 15.

RESULTS
Team event

Marino Takes Home the Win in Calgary, Henricksen Second

By Leann Bentley
February, 13 2023
Julia Marino
Julia Marino celebrates atop the podium in Calgary. (U.S. Ski & Snowboard)

The U.S. Snowboard team had a big showing across the board in Calgary, highlighted by pro athletes Julia Marino and Dusty Henrickesen, who are on a hot streak after both winning in Mammoth and taking first and second in Calgary. 

The Calgary Snow Rodeo hosted its second World Cup of the season, in perfect timing for athletes to get one more contest under their belt before some of the team travels to Georgia (the country!) for the 2023 Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships. With both the men and women competing in slopestyle and halfpipe, the U.S. had several athletes not only advance to finals but many in the top-five. 

Julia Marino took home her second first-place trophy of the past two weeks. She won the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix at Mammoth Mountain, traveled straight to Calgary and walked away with another win. For the men, Dusty Henricksen also shined, by taking home second-place a week after being atop the podium in Mammoth. 

Marino and Henricksen Atop FIS Overall Standings

Marino, who made it clear that she would be hard to beat from the get-go, kept the momentum rolling into the finals, where she threw down a perfect 50-50 to frontside lipslide to fakie on the rail section to a switch backside bluntslide cork 900 weddle and backside 720 melon. She finished the slopestyle finals with a high score of 78.36 and nabbed her seventh career World Cup win. With her win in the Calgary Snow Rodeo, Marino takes hold of the top spot on the FIS Snowboard slopestyle World Cup standings - 83 points ahead of her nearest competitor. With the yellow bib in hand, Marino also moved into third place on the Park & Pipe overall standings. 

Henricksen has had a break-out season with three podiums, one win and two second places. Going into World Championships, Henricksen also takes the number one spot in the FIS Snowboard slopestyle standings, and similar to Marino, is third overall for the Park & Pipe overall FIS standings. 

Along with Henricksen, there were several U.S. men in the finals. Chris Corning, who is coming off a podium result in Mammoth finished the weekend in the top-10, in ninth. Along with Corning, there were four more in the finals. Jake Canter had a great run and landed himself in the fifth position, with Brock Crouch not far behind in seventh. Fynn Bullock-Womble was 14th and Sean FitzSimons 15th. 

RESULTS

Men's Slopestyle

Women's Slopestyle