<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A new generation of snowboard stars has shown the world what they’re made out of, after teenagers <strong>Mia Brookes</strong> (GBR) and <strong>Hiroto Ogiwara</strong> (JPN) won the second big air contest of the FIS Snowboard World Cup season.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Seventeen-year-old Brookes was the first snowboarder to claim victory on Sunday on the Shougang Park big air jump with the highest-scoring run of the women’s competition.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The judges awarded Brookes 94.00 for the cab 1440 stalefish in her third run after the British teen managed just 52.00 for her first attempt at the same trick in her second run.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I didn’t come in to win today, I just wanted to land my new tricks. So it’s sick to win it,” she said. “To win this with such a heavy field is crazy.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Brookes’ final run put her in first place with a total score of 179.75 ahead of Japanese rider <strong>Mari Fukada</strong>’s 176.75, while two-time Olympic big air champion <strong>Anna Gasser</strong> (AUT) took third place on 169.00.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Five of the women’s eight finalists were Japanese, with <strong>Miyabi Onitsuka</strong> and <strong>Reira Iwabuchi </strong>finishing in fourth and fifth place respectively.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Japan had better luck in the men’s finals on Sunday with 19-year-old <strong>Hiroto Ogiwara</strong> taking first place after stomping his first and second runs for a combined total of 169.50.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I’m so happy. Next year I’ll stomp a 2160,” he said. “The level (here) is so crazy. Next year maybe (even) more crazy.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ogiwara took the lead despite the fact that Italy’s<strong> Ian Matteoli </strong>is the first rider in competition history to stomp a 2160.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Matteoli nearly broke the scale with a score of 97.75 for his groundbreaking 2160 Weddle to tailgrab – the highest-scored run across two days of men’s and women’s competition.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Unfortunately, Matteoli’s third run score of 67.75 for his third run cab 1800 Indy to nose grab would leave him just short of his Japanese counterpart when the results were tallied, with the 19-year-old Italian finishing in second place with 165.50.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rounding out the podium with a little history of his own was local talent<strong> Yang Wenlong </strong>(CHN) who claimed third place and the first podium of his World Cup career with a score of 159.25.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sunday proved difficult for some of the discipline’s most favoured snowboarders, with reigning World Champion <strong>Taiga Hasegawa </strong>(JPN) ending the day in ninth place ahead of Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games big air gold medallist <strong>Su Yiming</strong> (CHN).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Su fell on his first and second runs before pulling off a back 1980 Indy in his third run, but the 89.00 was not enough to move him up from last place.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was a similar story for women’s Beijing 2022 bronze medallist <strong>Kokomo Murase </strong>(JPN), who topped qualifications a day earlier but finished in last place on Sunday after falling in all of her runs.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Gasser’s third-place finish on Sunday also marks a return to form for the 33-year-old after she did not advance past the qualification round at Big Air Chur in October and missed the podium for the first time in her World Cup big air career.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The podium was the 30th of her World Cup career, and puts Gasser just one top-three finish behind Chinese halfpipe rider <strong>Cai Xuetong</strong> for the most in FIS Snowboard Park & Pipe World Cup history.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The next big air contest of the 2024/25 FIS Snowboard World Cup circuit will take place in Klagenfurt, Austria between 3 and 5 January 2025.</div>