Megeve ready for moguls World Cup finals
Mar 18, 2022·Freestyle
After seven moguls and three dual moguls competitions at six different venue, it all comes down to the final stop of the season for the FIS Freestyle Ski moguls World Cup tour, where the top women and men of 2021/22 will face off one last time in single and dual moguls competitions scheduled to take place in Megeve (FRA) this Friday and Saturday, March 18-19.
And there’s plenty of reasons to get excited for the final two competitions of the season, with a stacked field of athletes on hand in France, a perfectly prepared course and as many as three moguls World Cup crystal globes up for grabs once the season comes to a close on Saturday.
Starting with women’s moguls it is Anri Kawamura, who will enter Friday’s competition with the yellow bib, as the Japanese rider leads the way with 549 points in the standing after seven moguls events staged so far in 2021/22 campaign. With three victories, two runner-up positions and one third place finish Kawamura will be hoping for one more good result to secure the moguls small crystal globe.
But both Perrine Laffont (FRA) and Jakara Anthony (AUS) are sitting not far behind in second and third place, with respective 510 and 505 points, meaning that the battle for the moguls title is still wide-open between those three athletes, which promises a highly entertaining Friday’s competition.
Things are even more exciting over on the men’s side where Mikael Kingsbury (CAN) has 572 points and only 12 point advantage over Ikuma Horishima (JPN). With four moguls wins for Kingsbury and three for Horishima in 2021/22, it’s hard to expect anyone but one of those two athletes to take a top spot and thus the moguls title in Megeve.
Third in men’s moguls ranking is Walter Wallberg (SWE) with 345 points, and with a comfortable advantage over Kosuke Sugimoto (JPN), the 2022 Olympic champion from Beijing will be looking to finish the moguls tour in top-3.
Moving over to Saturday’s dual moguls event, it is Anthony and Kingsbury leading the respective women’s and men’s standings and following their recent victories last weekend in Chiesa in Valmalenco, they both have a substantial point advantage ahead of fourth and final dual moguls showdown in Megeve.
After three dual moguls events in 2021/22, Anthony leads the way with 260 points, over 60 points ahead of Laffont, while Kingsbury has 300 points following his three wins, with second Horishima finding himself 80 points behind.
That brings us to the final, and the most import ranking in 2021/22, i.e. the overall moguls, which sums up the points from both moguls and dual moguls classifications.
Here it’s again Anthony currently sitting in first place ahead of Laffont and Kawamura on the women’s side, while Kingsbury is occupying men’s top spot with Horishima in second and Wallberg in third.
The moguls competition is scheduled to go down on Friday with qualifications starting at 13:40 CET and finals following up in the evening at 17:45. The dual moguls event is set to get underway on Saturday at 11:10 with final head-to-head dual moguls matchups getting out of the gate at 15:40.
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Friday
Eurosport player (Europe/Asia), CBC Streaming (Canada), CCTV LIVE (China), streaming on Viaplay (Denmark, Norway), V SPORT + & YLE Areena (Finland), La Chaine (France), Arena 4+ (Hungary), JSports 1 (Japan), TV3 Sport Open (Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania), Polsat Sport News (Poland), V Sport Vinter (Sweden), streaming on Peacock and www.skiandsnowboard.live (USA), FIS Freestyle Youtube channel
Saturday
Eurosport player (Asia) & Eurosport 1 (Europe), CBC Streaming (Canada), CCTV LIVE (China), streaming on CT iBROADCASTING (Czech Republic), streaming on Viaplay (Denmark), YLE Areena (Finland), La Chaine (France), Arena 4+ (Hungary), JSports 2 (Japan), TV3 Sport Open (Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania), V Sport 3 (Norway), Polsat Sport News (Poland), Viaplay (Sweden), streaming on Peacock and www.skiandsnowboard.live (USA), FIS Freestyle Youtube channel
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