For the first time in her career, the 2018 Olympic champion achieved a double in singles and in parallel at the world championships on Sunday.
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A historic double for Perrine Laffont. After winning a fourth world title in Bakuriani (Georgia) in the single mogul ski event on Saturday, the 24-year-old Ariégeoise won the parallel mogul event on Sunday 26 February.
If she had won gold in parallel moguls in 2017 (she had taken silver in singles) and in 2019, then gold in 2021 in single moguls, Perrine Laffont had never yet achieved this double. With a fifth world gold medal, the Habs have become the most successful female athlete at the Worlds.
An unchallenged domination
The 2018 Olympic champion has mastered the parallel mogul event from start to finish, which will appear on the Olympic program in three years, showing once again that she is indeed the patron saint of this discipline of freestyle skiing. Opposed to Finland’s Riikka Voutilainen in the round of 16, the Habs had a very clean first run, even taking a five-second lead over their opponent. Despite a slightly less dominating quarter with a few small technical errors in the middle of the course, Perrine Laffont overcame this new obstacle, before qualifying for the final. Against the American Jaelin Kauf, very fast on her skis, Perrine Laffont knew how to use all her experience to win. With a new gold medal, Perrine Laffont does better than the French legend of the discipline, Edgar Grospiron, titled three times in 1989, 1991 and 1995.
Another entry, Camille Cabrol was eliminated in the round of 16 after a fall, without gravity. For his part, Benjamin Cavet, another representative of the tricolor clan, lost in the quarter against the Canadian Mikaël Kingsbury, Olympic champion in 2018 and legend of the discipline.
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