20 March 2007

Ramone Cooper has followed up his impressive World Freestyle Championship debut with a fourth placing in dual moguls in the World Junior Freestyle Championships, missing the podium by the barest margin.

After placing fifth in the single moguls on Sunday, Cooper again qualified poorly, landing a head-to-head meeting with the single moguls gold medallist Bryon Wilson of the USA in the opening round of the finals.

The 18-year-old Perisher Blue skier made it through that encounter, then accounted for Canadian Leonard Latour in the following round, before going down 17-18 in the semi-final to Kazakhstani skier Dmitry Reikherd, the eventual gold medallist.

In the battle for bronze against US skier Jay Bowman-Kirigin, the single moguls silver medallist, Cooper was again so near but yet so far, going down 17-18 for the second time.

Courtesy OWI/Sportcom



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