<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">New Zealander <strong>Zoi Sadowski-Synnott’s </strong>spectacular return to form in 2025 has netted her a third slopestyle World Championships title as Canada’s<strong> Liam Brearley</strong> became the men’s World Champion in Engadin, Switzerland.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sadowski-Synnott won World Championships gold in women’s slopestyle at the 2025 FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships on Friday after posting a top score of 90.15 in her second run.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 24-year-old was the last rider to drop into the course and claimed the top spot with a cab 270 boardslide 270, a frontside blunt 450 stalefish, a switch backside 900 Weddle, a frontside 1080 Weddle, then a backside 1260 melon, a cab underflip 540 Indy, and finished with a backside blunt 270 out.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After finishing the first run in fifth position, Sadowski-Synnott’s second run score dashed Japan’s hopes of a medal sweep by relegating <strong>Kokomo Murase’s</strong> score of 87.02 into second spot. Fellow Japanese rider <strong>Reira Iwabuchi </strong>claimed bronze with 83.55. Mari Fukada finished fourth on 82.15.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I messed up my first run and put so much pressure on myself coming into that last one, but all the girls are riding so good,” said Sadowski-Synnott.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I was stoked to watch everyone’s run and it just fired me up to land that run. I’ve never done that in contest before, so I’m super stoked.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Friday’s win is Sadowski-Synnott’s third World Championships title after she claimed back-to-back gold medals at the 2019 and 2021 editions. At the 2023 edition in Bakuriani, the New Zealander was runner-up.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I can’t really believe it. I didn't really think about it coming into this week,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I was just feeling incredibly grateful for this whole winter after my injury last year, just really thankful for the support from my sponsors, my team, my friends and family.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Her World Championships-winning form also comes after the 24-year-old returned to World Cup competition midway through the 2024/25 season after battling injuries for more than a year.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Upon her return, Sadowski-Synnott – who is the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games slopestyle champion – delivered back-to-back World Cup victories in slopestyle and big air in Aspen in February, followed by another slopestyle victory in the season finale in Flachau (AUT) on 14 March.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Flachau victory ensured Sadowski-Synnott beat Great Britain’s<strong> Mia Brookes</strong> to the slopestyle Crystal Globe. Brookes went on to win the overall women’s Park & Pipe Globe after amassing a total of seven World Cup podium finishes out of a possible eight across big air and slopestyle.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Brookes – the 2023 World Champion – finished sixth on Friday behind two-time big air Olympic gold medallist <strong>Anna Gasser</strong> (AUT).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In men’s slopestyle, <strong>Liam Brearley</strong> (CAN) also delivered a winning second-run score of 90.15 on Friday to top the 16-man final.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Beijing 2022 big air champion <strong>Su Yiming </strong>(CHN) claimed silver behind Brearley with a second-run score of 85.07, while 16-year-old <strong>Oliver Martin</strong> (USA) took bronze with 78.98.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Twenty-two-year-old Brearley stormed to pole position with a cab 180 to frontside lipslide pretzel 270, a switch backside 270 boardslide underflip 630 stalefish, a backside 1620 melon, a switch backside 1440 Weddle, a cab 1620 triple Weddle, a frontside 1080 truck driver, and finished with a 50-50 frontside 270 boardslide.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I’m so glad I landed that run. I didn’t land my first one, and I was just like ‘I’ve got nothing to lose, I’m going to put it all out there’, and it worked out,” said Brearley.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Canadian said the slopestyle course at Engadin brought out the best of a strong field featuring some of snowboarding’s best riders.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“These boys are killing it and it’s such a high level of slopestyle right now. It’s just an insane level of riding,” said Brearley.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fellow Canadian and 2024/25 slopestyle Crystal Globe winner <strong>Cameron Spalding</strong> finished in sixth place behind 2025 X Games gold medallist <strong>Red Gerard</strong> (USA). France’s <strong>Romain Allemand</strong> finished fourth, while some of the field’s top-ranked riders finished at the bottom of the rankings, including 2021 and 2023 winner <strong>Marcus Kleveland </strong>(NOR) in 14th place. Japan’s<strong> Taiga Hasegawa</strong>, the 2024/25 overall men’s Park & Pipe Crystal Globe winner and the defending big air World Champion, finished 13th.</div>