It just doesn’t stop for Jakara Anthony this season as she goes from record breaking gold to record breaking gold on the FIS World Cup moguls circuit.
She took her 10th victory for this season at the dual moguls event in Waterville USA in the early hours of this morning (AEDT).
She now joins legendary two-time Olympic medallist Dale Begg-Smith with 18 career World Cup victories, the most ever by an Australian mogul skier.
In overcast conditions Anthony cruised through the early rounds of the event to reach the semi-final stage against American Tess Johnson, where Anthony recorded a comfortable win 32 points to 3.
Anthony then faced her main rival this season, American Jaelen Kauf in the gold medal run, and in a close battle Anthony narrowly prevailed with a score of 18-17 to give the 2022 Olympic gold medallist her eighth straight victory in a row.
Rounding out the podium in third place was Olivia Giaccio who is also from America.
”It was really cool to come to Waterville, I haven’t been to too many brand new places on tour recently, so get to come to somewhere new and experience it has been really awesome, and I love competing in the United States,” said the 25-year-old from Barwon Heads in Victoria.
The mogul skiing athletes will now head to Deer Valley in the USA, for another single and dual mogul event next weekend on the always testing “Champion Run” at the 2002 Olympic venue.
Anthony is now one win away from equalling Hannah Kearney of the USA for the most ever wins in a season by a mogul skier, which the American achieved in the 2011-2012 World Cup season.
“Deer Valley is always the highlight of the season for everyone, so really looking to that,” said Anthony.
“They put on a good show there and it’s one of my favourite courses. It’s where I got my first World Cup start, my first World Championship podium and I had a win there last year, so looking forward to getting back there.”
“It’s been a crazy season, one win off that record set by Hannah Kearney, it’s getting close now, we will have to see what the rest of season brings, but I won’t be focusing on that too much, that’s when I might start making mistakes, so keep focusing on what I need to do out there and get better every competition.”
