The first event in Slopestyle was held in Secret Garden in China and Japan’s Takeru Otsuka and 2015 World Champion Miyabi Onitsuka winning the competitions.
The Halfpipe winners were Swiss Jan Scherrer and China’s Xuetong Cai. It was Scherrer’s first World Cup win and third World Cup career medal. Cai has won medals in both competitions this season and at just 25, won her 21st career World Cup medal and her ninth gold. Summaries:
FIS Snowboard World Cup
Secret Garden (CHN) ~ 21 December 2018
(Full results here)
Men’s Halfpipe: 1. Jan Scherrer (SUI), 95.50; 2. Ruka Hirano (JP), 92.50; 3. Yuto Totsuka (JPN), 92.25; 4. Ikko Anai (JPN), 84.75; 5. Yiwei Zhang (CHN), 81.75. Also: 8. Chase Blackwell (USA), 68.25.
Men’s Slopestyle: 1. Takeru Otsuka (JPN), 87.10; 2. Niklas Mattsson (SWE), 80.21; 3. Vlad Khadarin (RUS), 75.50; 4. Niek van der Velden (NED), 74.70; 5. Lyon Ferrell (USA), 73.51. Also: 6. Ryan Stassel (USA), 71.78.
Women’s Halfpipe: 1. Xuetong Cai (CHN), 88.75; 2. Verena Rohrer (SUI), 86.25; 3. Kurumi Imai (JPN), 82.25; 4. Hikaru Oe (JPN), 77.00; 5. Haruna Matsumoto (JPN), 63.50.
Women’s Slopestyle: 1. Miyabi Onitsuka (JPN), 86.20; 2. Reira Iwabuchi (JPN), 85.21; 3. Lucile Lefevre (FRA), 70.56; 4. Sarka Pancochova (CZE), 66.93; 5. Dongyu Li (CHN), 31.41.
