World Cup Hat Trick For Jakara

NSW Institute of Sport (NSWIS) scholarship holder Jakara Anthony has continued her perfect start to the world cup season in the single moguls discipline, winning her third straight event in Alpe d’Huez, France.

The 2022 Olympic champion recorded the seventh world cup victory of her career, in yet another dominant performance leading from start to finish, moving through all three rounds of the competition in first place.

Competing under sunny skies in the French Alps, Jakara had the highest turn and jump points in the final to score 79.70 points to finish 3.89 points ahead of French skier Perrine Laffont while American Elzabeth Lemley took third with 74.75 points.

Jakara is undefeated in three starts at the iconic Tour de France stage location, having won two single mogul world cup events last year.

“Three competitions and three wins on this course is pretty crazy” said the 24-year-old from Barwon Heads in Victoria.

“It’s heaps of fun in there, it doesn’t look as hard as it is, it’s pretty difficult to ski in there so you really have to be on your game.”

In the men’s event, all three Australians made finals, led by 2018 Olympic silver medallist Matt Graham who narrowly missed advancing to the super-final in seventh place, with teammates Cooper Woods and Jackson Harvey recording strong qualifying performances but both made mistakes in the final to finish in in 15^th and 16^th place respectively.

The mogul action continues tomorrow in Alpe d’Huez, with the second dual mogul event of the season taking place.

Looking forward to the dual mogul event, Jakara commented.

“Anything can happen on a duals day, it’s so exciting to watch and so exciting to ski and I can’t wait to be a part of another event on this course.”

Article courtesy of OWIA