In the early morning of January 16, Beijing time, the 2022 Snowboard World Cup in Switzerland Lex Station ended. In the women's U-shaped field skills final, the three Chinese players all made mistakes and finished in the last three places, Wu Shaotong ranked sixth, Cai Xuetong ranked seventh, Liu Jiayu ranked eighth, and American Chloe Jin won the championship with 90.25 points. However, Cai Xuetong won the snowboarding World Cup with 216 points for three consecutive seasons, which is also another honor for Chinese ice and snow athletes after Gu Ailing won the overall championship of the freestyle skiing World Cup points.
Cai Xuetong (infographic)
A total of 8 players participated in the final, which was divided into two rounds. In the first round, Wu Shaotong scored 25.75 points, Cai Xuetong scored 21.25 points, Liu Jiayu only had 12.00 points, Chloe King scored a high score of 90.25 points in the first round, Japan's Mizuki Ono scored 89.00 points, and Spain's Gastreet scored 80.00 points, ranking the top three in the first round.
In the second round, three Chinese players still made mistakes, Wu Shaotong 38.00 points, Cai Xuetong 27.50 points, liu Jiayu 8.00 points. In the end, the three ranked sixth, seventh and eighth respectively.
Final results
Chloe King was the last to finish the tournament symbolically with 90.25 points, with Mizuki Ono finishing second with 89.00 points in the first round and Gastreet 80.00 points as runners-up.
World Cup standings
In the world cup overall standings, Tsai Xuetong won the championship with 216 points, Japan's Tomita Seta ranked second with 190 points, and Mizuki Ono ranked third with 175 points. Wu Shaotong ranked 10th with 85 points, and Liu Jiayu ranked 13th with 58 points.
Men's results
In the men's U-shaped court skills final at the same time, Japan's Hirano Bumon won the championship with 93.25 points, the host Switzerland's Jan Scheler won the second place with 90.00 points, and the American star Shaun White won the third place with 84.00 points. (Huang Kai)