Dale Begg-Smith has finished in fifth place in a dual mogul skiing World Cup in Deer Valley, but continues to hold the number one world ranking.

Begg-Smith, who is the reigning dual moguls world champion, made an uncharacteristic error in his head-to-head quarter-final battle, missing a jump and going down to US skier Landon Gardner.

But the 23-year-old retains the World Cup leader’s yellow bib with 310 points, 46 points ahead of nearest rival Guilbaut Colas of France.

“Coming into the bottom air I tried to take off a bit of speed and caught my edge, got really forward and didn’t do the bottom jump, so that pretty much sealed the deal there,” Begg-Smith said.

“I was skiing pretty well, going fast, everything was fine, I just didn’t take the speed off properly, so that was it.”

Olympic Winter Institute head mogul skiing coach Steve Desovich was philosophical about the result.

“Duals is the sort of competition where you are going so fast anything can happen,” he said.

“You win some, you lose some in duals.”

“Last year, Dale dominated with the start, and people have picked up on that and they are onto him right out of the gate.”

“But the fact that he got in and out of the event without getting hurt and is still ahead on the points is a positive we can take out of it.”

Vincent Marquis of Canada won the event, his first World Cup victory.

Gardner took the silver, with Alexandre Bilodeau of Canada collecting bronze.

The second member of the Olympic Winter Institute team, Ramone Cooper, crossed his tips halfway down the course and skied off, receiving no score.

Courtesy OWI/Sportcom