Alisa Camplin has led an Australia quinella at the World Cup in Lake Placid overnight, the Flying Kangaroos team missing a trifecta by one place.

Camplin scored 192.76 points to collect her third gold medal for the season, five points ahead of Lydia Ierodiaconou, with Liz Gardner finishing in fourth place.

Belarussian Assol Slivets took the bronze medal.

It is the first time Australia has had three skiers in the top four in any World Cup event.

Rookie team member Trudy McIntosh placed 14th, missing the 12-woman final by less than a point in only her second event on the circuit.

The fifth member of the Olympic Winter Institute team, Lainie Cole, finished in 22nd place.

Camplin, the defending World Cup champion, recovered from a crash in the opening event in Lake Placid on Friday to take the sixth win of her career.

“Conditions have been unbelievably hard here,” Camplin said.

“On Friday we had really freezing temperatures, high swirling winds and then we had a downpour of snow, so it was very tough out there.”

“The coaches have had a difficult job getting the speeds right, but they must have got it right today because the whole team did well.”

“I was too slow on Friday and somersaulted over my skis when I landed, but I’m interested in performing consistently this season and I’m wanting to get that crystal globe at the end of the season, so I had to bounce back today.”

With the 12-event season now halfway over, Camplin leads the World Cup title race on 408 points, 49 ahead of Ierodiaconou.

The nearest challenger to the two Australians, Chinese skier Nina Li, is nearly 150 points behind Camplin on 262 points.

Competitors earn 100 points for a win, 80 for second and 60 for third.

The next event is in the Canadian resort of Fernie next weekend, the circuit then returning to the 2002 Olympic site in Deer Valley the following weekend.

Courtesy Sportcom/OWI