The knot has burst with Annika Morgan. At the World Cup in Canada, she used the absence of numerous top athletes-and celebrated the first podium. In contrast, she narrowly missed the first World Cup victory of her career.
The 23-year-old Morgan was second on Saturday (February 22nd, 2025) in Calgary, Canada. Their rating of 76.30 points from the first run was even the best mark in the classification of the twelve final participants.
Only the last starter in the competition, Mari Fukada from Japan, cracked Morgan’s score. Fukada flew to 77.58 points. The 18-year-old World Cup-East celebrated the first Slopestyle victory of her career. Third was World Cup leader Mia Brookes from Great Britain (74.08 points).
Many top athletes are missing
In the absence of numerous top athletes-only five snowboarders of the World Cup top-10 were at the start-Morgan was qualifying fifth. In the first round, Morgans was “Back 1080 Melon“The best rated at Kicker 2 with 9.70 points, in the second run she fell here and on the same and could not improve her point value from the first run. Fukada was fourth in the first round. In the second run she was able to do Morgan Do not beat in the individual ratings, but the overall difficulty was higher.
Fifth World Cup platform for Morgan
Mittenwaldin Morgan must continue to wait for the first World Cup victory of her career. Ten days after her 23rd birthday, she was able to look forward to the fifth World Cup platform. After three third places, she finished second for the second time. Morgan improved in fifth place in the Gamt World Cup.