The 18-year-old from Thurgau, who was the only Swiss to qualify for the finals in this discipline at his home World Cup, was able to improve again compared to the semi-finals and the qualification. In the end, Hasler, whose best ranking in the World Cup was a 6th place last season at the conclusion in Silvaplana, was just over one and a half points short of the first podium with 82.20 points.
Cameron Spalding won with 86.63 points. The 19-year-old Canadian, who already triumphed at the season opener in New Zealand, prevailed ahead of the American Gerard Redmond (86.22) and the German Noah Vicktor (83.72).
In the women’s race, Britain’s Mia Brookes (84.86) won ahead of New Zealand’s Zoi Sadowski Synnott (77.29) and Japan’s Kokomo Murase (71.15). Andrina Salis and Ariane Burri missed the final of the top eight by around ten points and finished in 12th and 13th place.
Jonas Hasler, who stood out with his stylish runs and his refreshing manner, seems to inspire the home crowd. Although only at the beginning of a promising career, he has already shown his great potential several times in Laax: in 2022, as a 15-year-old, he made it to 21st place in the halfpipe, and last season he improved his best result in the pipe with 16th place and finished 29th . his first World Cup points in slopestyle.
-What is also unusual is that Hasler competes in both slopestyle and halfpipe – a balancing act that only the Australian world-class athlete Valentino Guseli has achieved at the highest level in recent years. The son of two former halfpipe specialists and Olympic participants missed this year’s final in the Laaxer Pipe by less than three points in fourteenth place.
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