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- Updated: April 4, 2017
TESS Coady now has not one, but two junior world titles to her name after she won both the snowboard slopestyle and snowboard big air events in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic on the weekend.
It has been a stunning rise for the 16-year-old, who only made her World Cup and Senior World Championships debuts earlier in the year.
“It feels so great,” Coady told the Australian Olympic Committee website after her back-to-back wins.
“My season was already really great but becoming the Junior World Champion was just icing on the cake!”
Coady scored 94.25 in her third and final run to secure the slopestyle crown, from Japan’s Reira Iwabuchi (87.50) and Elli Pikkujamsa of Finland (84.00).
Coady then claimed her second gold the following day in the snowboard big air event with a score of 167.25.
“After the slopestyle I was super stoked but I had to keep it together for the big air,” she said.
“I basically tried not to think about slopestyle for the day and just focus on what was ahead of me.”
The podium was a repeat from the slopestyle competition with Iwabuchi and Pukkujamsa in second and third just like the day before.
After placing sixth in both World Cup appearances this season, the boarder from Jindabyne, NSW finished in 21st position overall on the FIS Snowboard Slopestyle World Cup rankings in March, just in front of fellow Aussie Jess Rich in 22nd place.
She also joined a group of elite Australian winter athletes in Spain for the Sierra Nevada World Championships, where she placed 11th in the slopestyle and 21st in big air.
“I will be heading back to Mammoth [California] to do some spring riding, then back home to squeeze a bit of school in, then ride the Australian season and I still have some planning to do on how the rest of the year will go.”
Source: Australian Olympic Committee
