Sadowski-Synnott secures slopestyle win and first Crystal Globe as Brookes and Hasegawa take overall titles
Mar 14, 2025·Snowboard Park & Pipe)
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott gave New Zealand its second Park & Pipe Crystal Globe of the 2024/25 season after the finals in the last slopestyle World Cup were cancelled in Flachau due to weather conditions.
The women’s final, originally scheduled to begin at 10:00 Central European Time (CET) on Friday, was cancelled due to adverse weather, snowfall and low visibility at Absolut Park Flachauwinkl (AUT).
Results from qualifications a day earlier were instead used to determine the final standings, with Sadowski-Synnott taking the win as the top qualifier in the women’s event.
The men’s competition was also called off on Friday, with the men’s discipline standings based on four World Cup events rather than five.
Based on results from women’s qualifications, Sadowski-Synnott topped the women’s field with a score of 89.50, followed by Annika Morgan (GER) on 85.25. Japan’s Mari Fukada was third with 80.50.
Twenty-four-year-old Sadowski-Synnott said she didn’t expect to end the season with the slopestyle Crystal Globe.
“To qualify in first and then manage to get this result and walk away with the Globe feels pretty unreal because I’ve never had one of these before,” she said.
The New Zealander arrived in Flachau two weeks ago to focus on training ahead of the fifth and final slopestyle contest of the 2024/25 FIS season.
For Sadowski-Synnott – who won slopestyle gold at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games – it has been a long journey coming back from injuries, but her efforts in 2025 yielded back-to-back World Cup victories in Aspen in February across slopestyle and big air, as well second place at the Laax Open in January, followed by X Games slopestyle gold, also in Aspen in January.
Her Laax runner-up result marked her first World Cup podium since 2023 and a much anticipated return to form that the New Zealander did not think would result in the season trophy.
“It wasn’t even on my mind, I just wanted to get back into this season strong and healthy coming off my ankle injury last year,” she said.
“This week has been awesome, and really fun to ride at Absolut Park and have a really sick competition here for Spring Battle.
“Bummer that we couldn’t run today with the conditions, it was just a bit gnarly.”
Sadowski-Synnott finished the slopestyle season on 312 points, ahead of Great Britain’s Mia Brookes on 300 points. Eighteen-year-old Brookes did not start in Flachau but took the overall women’s Park & Pipe Crystal Globe with a total of 500 points with seven podiums from a total of eight World Cup starts across slopestyle and big air.
“It’s been such a long season, to walk away with this is really special,” said Brookes.
In February Brookes claimed her second consecutive big air Globe after amassing two wins and one third place finish from five World Cup contests.
In men’s slopestyle, Canadian Cameron Spalding topped the discipline standings to give Canada its second consecutive slopestyle Crystal Globe after countryman Liam Brearley took the honours in 2023/24.
“Liam and I grew up riding together, we’ve been like brothers for forever. Everything that he’s done on the board has just motivated me to do more. Without him I don’t think I’d be in the position I am right now,” said the 19-year-old.
Japan’s Taiga Hasegawa and reigning big air World Champion claimed the Crystal Globe for the overall men’s Park & Pipe with 439 points across slopestyle and big air. The 19-year-old also won the men’s big air Globe alongside Brookes in Aspen in February. Hasegawa counts two big air wins and two as runner-ups to his credit in the 2024/25 season, with his best slopestyle result coming as a fourth place finish in Calgary (CAN).
“It was such a good season. I’m proud of myself,” he said.
The teenager has already set his sights on the upcoming St-Moritz-Engadin 2025 FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships in Engadin (SUI).
“I’m going to become the World Champion (in) big air and slopestyle," said Hasegawa.
QUICK LINKS
Flachau Slopestyle World Cup data page (start lists, live scoring, results)
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