<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">British teenager <strong>Mia Brookes </strong>beat Austrian snowboard icon <strong>Anna Gasser</strong> on Gasser’s home snow at Flachau (AUT) on Saturday, to add a second Slopestyle World Cup victory to her career record. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the men’s field, Canada’s <strong>Eli Bouchard </strong>dominated the 14-man final to claim his maiden Slopestyle World Cup victory. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nineteen-year-old Brookes was the first rider to storm to victory at Flachau’s <strong>Absolut Park</strong> on Saturday with her first-run score of 73.25. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Gasser, 34, was runner-up on 72.43, while recently crowned Slopestyle Junior World Champion<strong> Lily Dhawornvej</strong> (USA) was third on 66.61. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Brookes was the top qualifier going into Saturday’s final and maintained her position as the woman to beat after judges awarded her 72.43 for her first attempt.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 19-year-old began her winning run with a frontside blunt stall bring back, then a switch frontside 180 on to 50-50 to backside boardslide to forward on the first rail, then a frontside lipslide 270, a 50-50 frontside 360 melon, a backside 900 melon on the first jump, and finally a cab 900 tailgrab on the final hit.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Brookes’ victory on Saturday comes after the 19-year-old narrowly missed out on a Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games medal in Big Air with fourth place. The 2024/25 overall women’s FIS Park and Pipe Crystal Globe winner also failed to qualify for the Slopestyle final at Milano Cortina 2026.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, in her first competition action since those Games here in Flachau, Brookes claimed top spot in the AbsolutPark Spring Battle rail jam, top spot in the Spring Battle slopestyle, and then swept the week in Flachau by taking Saturday’s World Cup victory at the same venue.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The teenager said Saturday’s win capped off a good week of riding for her.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I’m pretty stoked. The weather wasn’t the best but it was really fun (today),” said Brookes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Obviously the Olympics didn’t go too good, but every other comp that I was in went really well and I just had a really fun season.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Flachau marks Brookes only Slopestyle World Cup start of the 2025/26 season after she won the Big Air World Cup in Beijing (CHN) in December. The win is Brookes’ second career Slopestyle World Cup victory after the then 18-year-old won the Laax Open in 2025.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Gasser’s second-place finish on Saturday is her second of the 2025/26 season after she was third at the Laax Open in January. Her Flachau podium is her 33rd top-three World Cup finish from 45 starts across Slopestyle and Big Air since 2013.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The two-time Olympic Big Air champion has previously said Milano Cortina 2026 was her last Games, but it is unclear when Gasser plans to stop competing on the World Cup circuit.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, Dhawornvej’s third-place finish on Saturday now puts the 16-year-old U.S. on top of the women’s Slopestyle standings with 169 points – just nine points ahead of Milano Cortina 2026 Big Air champion and Slopestyle bronze medalist <strong>Kokomo Murase</strong> (JPN) on 160 points. Murase did not compete in Flachau.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the men’s final, Canada’s <strong>Eli Bouchard </strong>topped the field after setting an early benchmark first-run score of 81.11.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bouchard began his winning run with a front flip on the wallride, then a switch backside blunt to forward on the first rail, then a frontside 180 to switch tailpress switch 180 out, a frontside lipslide 630 melon out, then a trademark a McBoutch indy on the first jump, before finishing it all off with a cab triple 1620 mute on the final feature.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Judd Henkes</strong> (USA) was runner-up on 76.91 while Japan’s <strong>Hiroto Ogiwara </strong>was third on 72.58.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bouchard’s win on Saturday comes after the Canadian made his Olympic Winter Games debut at Milano Cortina 2026 where he finished 13th and 14th in Slopestyle and Big Air respectively.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The teenager said Saturday’s winning run came after he tried to land the same run at Spring Battle earlier this week.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Since Spring Battle before, I tried that run so many times. I couldn’t get it properly, and then first Slopestyle final in the World Cup and on the podium. Pretty hyped about it,” said Bouchard.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Saturday’s result is Bouchard’s second career World Cup win after the teenager topped the Aspen Big Air World Cup in February 2025.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">'' I feel like it might be a bit more street cred to win a Slopestyle contest.'' – Eli Bouchard (CAN)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For runner-up Henkes, Flachau marks his fourth career World Cup podium, and his first top-three result in six years.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 24-year-old last finished on a World Cup podium on home snow in February 2020 when he was third at Mammoth Mountain (USA).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ogiwara’s third place in Flachau is the 20-year-old’s first Slopestyle World Cup podium and adds to his podium record of three Big Air victories between 2023 and 2025.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Henkes’ second-place finish in Flachau now puts him on 139 points in the men’s Slopestyle World Cup standings, one point behind Milano Cortina 2026 Slopestyle champion <strong>Su Yiming</strong> (CHN), who did not compete in Flachau.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Flachau marks the third stop of the 2025/26 FIS Slopestyle World Cup season. 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