Canada's Kingsbury, Schwinghammer win World Cup moguls gold, bronze

Canadian freestyle skier Mikaël Kingsbury continued his perfect start to the World Cup moguls season with a gold medal Friday in Idre Fjäll, Sweden.

The 32-year-old Olympic and world champion from Deux-Montagnes, Que., scored a season-high 87.92 points to top the podium ahead of Ikuma Horishima of Japan (85.89) and Sweden's Walter Wallberg (85.63).

"I'm super happy to have my second one," Kingsbury told reporters. "I think I had tiny mistakes, but overall I did a very good double full and a good ten. I was very strong in my skiing today."

Julien Viel of Mont-Saint-Anne, Que., was eighth for his 10th career top-10 finish on the circuit.

Kingsbury also won the World Cup season opener last week in Ruka, Finland, with Wallberg finishing second and Horishima third.

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Mikaël Kingsbury of Deux-Montagnes, Que., won the moguls event at the FIS World Cup stop in Dalarna, Sweden.

Kingsbury, now in his 16th season, has 92 World Cup victories and 131 medals in 151 starts.

Last season, he surpassed Swedish alpine skier Ingemar Stenmark for the most all-time World Cup victories by a male athlete in any ski discipline.

Kingsbury won an Olympic moguls gold medal in 2018, and silver in both 2014 and 2022.

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1st individual World Cup podium for Schwinghammer

In the women's competition, Maïa Schwinghammer of Saskatoon earned her first individual World Cup podium with bronze after previously collecting a medal in dual moguls.

The 23-year-old missed out on the podium last week in Ruka, where she was fourth.

Schwinghammer was the first to compete in the super final on Friday and amassed 80.71 points.

Last December, Kingsbury won men's dual moguls in Bakuriani, Georgia while Schwinghammer, making her 46th World Cup start, took silver in the women's final for the first World Cup medal of her career.

Schwinghammer, 23, also picked up a pair of fifth-place finishes in dual moguls last season, in Valmalenco, Itay and Deer Valley, Utah.

She joined the national team in 2018 at age 16.

Her need for speed was ignited at four, skiing with a tow rope behind her uncle's snowmobile near Christopher Lake, a village about 170 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon.

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Saskatoon's Maïa Schwinghammer earns her 1st individual World Cup moguls medal

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Maïa Schwinghammer scored 80.71 points to claim bronze at the FIS World Cup moguls event in Dalarna, Sweden.