Alisa Camplin has retained her place as the world’s number one aerial skier despite crashing out in the World Cup in Lake Placid, New York.

Flying Kangaroos team-mate Lydia Ierodiaconou collected the bronze medal after leading the qualification round with her first 100 points plus jump.

Chinese duo Jiao Wang and Nina Li took the gold and silver medals.

In a day of high winds and difficult snow conditions, Camplin could not judge her speed correctly on the in-run, going into her qualification jump too fast, getting too much height and then somersaulting on landing.

She finished in 21st place, but sits on 309 points at the top of the World Cup table, 19 clear of Ierodiaconou on 279, with Wang moving into third place on 214 points.

Ierodiaconou produced a brilliant opening triple twisting double somersault to score a personal best 100.28 points, leading the field by 10 points.

But in her second effort she also had trouble with the wind, jumping too big and back-slapping on landing.

“I had a great opportunity to win today but couldn’t capitalise on it,” Ierodiaconou said.

“How can I not win when I lead by ten points?”

“But conditions were really difficult. I had a really strong tail wind on the second jump. I knew I was too high, and stretched as much as I could to slow it down, but it wasn’t enough.”

“Still, I learnt a lot today, and I’m really happy I could get over one hundred points on my full double full which is the jump that I’ve been having trouble with.”

“I’m looking forward to Sunday’s competition.”

Olympic Winter Institute team-member Liz Gardner finished in tenth place, with Lainie Cole in 19th. Trudy McIntosh did not start, the conditions adjudged too difficult for the novice competitor.

The Olympic Winter Institute moguls team will compete on Sunday morning, AEST, with another aerials World Cup scheduled for Monday morning.

Results
1. Jiao Wang CHI - 183.61 points
2. Nina Li CHN - 182.24
3. Lydia Ierodiaconou AUS - 172.52

World Cup Standings
1. Alisa Camplin AUS 308
2. Lydia Ierodiaconou AUS 279
3. Jiao Wang CHN 214

Courtesy Sportcom/OWI