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Alisa
Camplin has reinforced her place at the top of the World
Cup aerial skiing standings after winning her second
straight event in Mont Tremblant, Canada.
The reigning World Cup champion scored 200.64 points to
defeat Chinese skier Nina Li by a massive seventeen
points, with Canadian Deidra Dionne in third place.
Camplin led the field after the first round, with
Chinese Nannan Xu in second place and Flying Kangaroos
team-mate Lydia Ierodiaconou in third.
While Xu faltered on her second jump and Ierodiaconou
failed to hold the landing on her second effort, Camplin
reeled off her second 100 point-plus triple twisting
double somersault for the competition to claim the gold
medal.
It was her second consecutive World Cup win for the
season, the second in two years at Tremblant and the
fifth of her career.
Ierodiaconou finished in fifth place and Liz Gardner in
seventh place.
“It was a very tough competition,” Camplin said.
“We were training with a headwind all week, and today it
turned around to a variable tail wind, so it was a big
switch.”
“We’ve had a hard, long few weeks of training, and I had
to work really hard to keep my concentration.”
“I’ve been jumping very well in training, but there’s a
lot of pressure to win. It gets harder all the time”
Former Olympic gymnast Trudy McIntosh, making her World
Cup debut, finished in 19th position, displaying
excellent form in the air, but failing to stick her
landing.
The fifth member of the Olympic Winter Institute team
Lainie Cole was in 23rd place.
The victory stretches Camplin’s lead on the World Cup
season standings, her 289 points, putting her 79 points
clear of Ierodiaconou, with Xu more than 100 points
behind on 189 points.
The World Cup continues next weekend with two events in
Lake Placid, New York.
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