Brit Brookes Wins Laax World Cup Day Before 18th Birthday
Brit Brookes Wins Laax World Cup Day Before 18th Birthday
Published : 19-Jan-2025 07:37
British teenager Mia Brookes secured her third win of the 2024/25 FIS Snowboard World Cup season in style at the Laax Open in Switzerland on Saturday.
Seventeen-year-old Brookes, who turns 18 today, topped the women's final with a score of 84.86, while New Zealand's Zoi Sadowski Synnott came in second with 77.29 points. Japan's Kokomo Murase finished third with 71.15 points. Two-time Olympic big air champion Anna Gasser from Austria placed fourth, followed by Reira Iwabuchi from Japan in fifth place.
"This is the best birthday present ever. I'm so hyped. Winning the Laax Open was definitely on my list," said Brookes, who added, "This is a super fun course and really hard."
Brookes' victory follows her third-place finish at Big Air Kreischberg last week and marks her third win of the season after she also won the big air events in Klagenfurt and Beijing earlier this season.
With five podium finishes from six starts this World Cup season, Brookes continues to lead the overall women's FIS Park & Pipe rankings with 485 points and also tops the slopestyle standings.
Her win in Laax is especially meaningful as Brookes claimed her first World Cup podium here in 2023 as a 16-year-old runner-up.
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