Canadian freestyle skier Naomi Urness struck gold in women’s big air World Cup competition on Saturday in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
Mont-Tremblant, Que., native grabs 3rd World Cup medal of the season
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Canadian freestyle skier Naomi Urness struck gold in women’s big air World Cup competition on Saturday in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
The Mont-Tremblant, Que., native had a score of 156.25.
Naomi Urness gets her first career FIS World Cup win in just her fifth start and overtakes top spot in the FIS World Cup big air and freeski standings.
Ukraine’s Kateryna Kotsar (152.50) and China’s Yang Ruyi (148.50) rounded out the podium.
Urness finished third in Thursday’s qualifying with 80.50.
It was the third World Cup medal of the season for the 21-year-old.
Urness won silver on Nov. 29 and bronze last Saturday, with both of those events having taken place in China.
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