The day after her coronation on the simple event, the Frenchwoman won the parallel this Sunday. With five coronations in total, she becomes at 24 the most drawn skier in the history of the Worlds.
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At the 2017 World Championships, in Sierra Nevada (Spain), Perrine Laffont had offered the title in bumps of bumps, but she had to settle for money in parallel. Sunday, February 26, in Bakuriani, Georgia, the Pyrenean, on Sunday, finally won the double that she had come close to six years earlier. After winning, with the manner, the simple event the day before, the 24 -year -old skier won the title in parallel, beating the American Jaelin Kauf in the grand final. The bronze medal returned to Austrian Avital Carroll, completing a podium identical to that of Saturday.
Less than twenty-four hours after her first coronation in the competition, Perrine Laffont found the physical resources necessary to chain four passages on the bumps: she dominated the Finnish Riikka Voutilainen in eighths, the British Makayla Gerken Schofield in quarters , then Avital Carroll in the semi-finals.
She therefore found in the Duel for Gold Jaelin Kauf, a joint medalist in single Saturday and Olympic vice-champion during the 2022 winter games in China. The two skiers had already faced each other in February in Deer Valley (United States) in the World Cup. The Ariégeoise had won, signing his first victory of the season.
“I can’t believe it”
Perrine Laffont, who had already won global gold in parallel in 2017 and 2019 and simple in 2021, becomes with this double the skier on the most titled bumps in history with five planetary crowns, ahead of the Canadian Jennifer Heil and the Norwegian Kari Traa, in gold four times.
“I can’t believe it, doing the double at the world championships is something you can dream of when you are a sportsman and a skier on the bumps. It’s great !, was delighted the French after the final. It’s hard to believe it, because it’s so much work. A big thank you to my team, to my partners, and to all those who work with me, without them I couldn’t get there. It’s crazy! “
In men, the Canadian Mikaël Kingsbury signed him a “triple-double”, since he doubled his gold medal on the simple bumps on Saturday by a new title in parallel on Sunday, as he had it already done in 2019 and 2021.
He has ahead of the reigning Olympic champion, the Swedish Walter Wallberg, while the bronze returned to the Australian Matt Graham. Again for the same podium as the previous day’s test, but in another order. Sixth the day before, the Frenchman Benjamin Cavet stopped in the quarterfinals on Sunday, beaten by Kingsbury.