The Chinese Air Skills team won the mixed team championship in two consecutive World Cups

On the night of December 11, the 2021/2022 FIS Freestyle SkiIng Aerial Skills Finnish Ruka Station Competition came to an end, and the Chinese Aerial Skills Team composed of Xu Mengtao, Sun Jiaxu and Qi Guangpu won the mixed team gold medal with a score of 354.87 points, and the Chinese team reached the highest podium of the mixed group event in two consecutive World Cup competitions. In addition, in the individual event, Xu Mengtao won the third place in the women's group in the second final, and Qi Guangpu won the fourth place in the men's group.

The Chinese Air Skills Team won the championship

Finland has hosted two consecutive Air Skills World Cup spin-offs back-to-back, with this stop being the second. Looking back at the last Finnish ruka station mixed team competition, the Chinese air skills team sent Xu Mengtao, Jia Zongyang and Qi Guangpu three players, and in the end they won the championship with a total score of 323.24 points, and the second place Russian team scored 326.48 points.

In this competition, a total of 9 teams participated in the mixed team final, and each team sent three team members, and the competition was divided into two rounds. In the first round, The Chinese team Xu Mengtao used a churning three-turn two-week action with a difficulty factor of 4.028, which is also her signature move. Xu Mengtao made a beautiful turn in the air, landed basically smoothly, and finally scored 88.21 points. Sun Jiaxu, who appeared in the second place, chose the churning action with a difficulty coefficient of 4.425, and Sun Jiaxu's aerial attitude control was in place, and the landing was very smooth to score 126.11 points. Qi Guangpu, who appeared in the third place, chose the churning action with a difficulty factor of 4.525, and this jump was completed almost perfectly and scored 123.98 points.

In the second round of the competition, the three players of the Chinese team, Xu Mengtao, Sun Jiaxu and Qi Guangpu, scored 100.29 points, 127.88 points and 126.70 points, and finally won the championship with 354.87 points. The United States finished second with 315.66 points and Ukraine finished third with 303.07 points.

Before the start of the mixed group competition, the second individual final of the World Cup also came to an end, and Xu Mengtao won a bronze medal in the women's group with a score of 98.28 points. In the first final of the men's and women's individual events held on the previous competition day, China's Xu Mengtao won the silver medal in the women's group, and Jia Zongyang and Qi Guangpu won the silver and bronze medals in the men's group respectively.