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Chinese dominate Aerials World Cup opener at home

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Chinese aerialists are always in contention but at home they seem to take it up a notch. Today (Dec. 19) was no exception as Chinese jumpers claimed five of six podium spots at the World Cup aerials opener in Changchun, China.

It was a cold one in China (-12 F) as the women’s podium was a Chinese sweep led by Guo Xinxin with her third career World Cup victory. Last season’s World Cup overall runner-up Li Nina grabbed second place for her 37th career podium. Rounding out the podium was 19-year-old Mengtao Xu in third for her fourth career World Cup podium.

 "The moves I performed are the ones that I am going to do in the Vancouver Olympics,” Guo told Chinese news outlet Xinhua. “I have done a lot of training in Inner Mongolia last month and I really can perform better now. I just skied normally today and won the gold."

Canadian Sabrina Guerin led the North American women in seventh, tying her career high, followed by American Emily Cook in eight place. Canadians Amber Peterson (11th) and Veronika Bauer (15th), and Americans Lacy Schnoor (17th) and Jana Lindsey (21st) will look to move up in tomorrow’s competition.

Belarus skier Anton Kushnir took the men’s event, his second career World Cup win, ahead of Chinese jumpers Lui Zhongquing in second and Wu Chao in third. Kushnir’s first jump pulled in the high score of the day of 126.11.

Once again it was a Canadian leading North American efforts as last season’s World Cup overall champion Steve Omischl took fifth. Jeret “Speedy” Peterson led the U.S. in ninth place. World Champion, American Ryan St. Onge (13th), missed competing in the finals by one spot, after a subpar landing in a qualifying round.

Canadians Ryan Blais (11th), Oliver Rochon (14th), Remi Belanger (16th) and Kyle Nissen as well Americans Dylan Ferguson (18th) and Scotty Bahrke (21st) also got their seasons started today.

"It was a disappointing day," said U.S. head freestyle coach Jeff Wintersteen. "But tomorrow's another day and we can get back on the horse."

World Cup aerials continue in Changchun tomorrow with another round of men’s and women’s competition.

Women's Results

Rank Bib FIS Code Name Year Nation Result Level Points
 1  10  2324827 GUO Xinxin  1983  CHN   206.09    1000.00
 2  2  2351312 LI Nina  1983  CHN   198.28    800.00
 3  4  2526230 XU Mengtao  1990  CHN   182.56    600.00
 4  17  2379055 DIDENKO Nadiya  1986  UKR   164.74    500.00
 5  27  2484528 SCHAERER Tanja  1989  SUI   164.62    450.00
 6  18  2367803 MUNRO Bree  1981  AUS   158.62    400.00
 7  15  2526216 GUERIN Sabrina  1985  CAN   157.84    360.00
 8  8  2180102 COOK Emily  1979  USA   151.21    320.00
 9  14  2192518 TSUPER Alla  1979  BLR   150.48    290.00
 10  11  2416303 DAI Shuangfei  1985  CHN   148.35    260.00
 11  20  2304069 PETERSON Amber  1982  CAN   143.63    240.00
 12  5  2050898 LEU Evelyne  1976  SUI   140.90    220.00
 13  28  2526676 AINSWORTH Sarah  1985  GBR   77.14    200.00
 14  12  2439777 ZHANG Xin  1985  CHN   76.31    180.00
 15  7  2201927 BAUER Veronika  1979  CAN   72.26    160.00
 16  26  2335206 SLIVETS Assoli  1982  BLR   71.66    150.00
 17  21  2381386 SCHNOOR Lacy  1985  USA   68.35    140.00
 18  3  2438807 CHENG Shuang  1987  CHN   58.86    130.00
 19  29  2527470 ARAPBAYEVA Zhibek  1991  KAZ   55.35    120.00
 20  13  2484885 POLYUK Olga  1987  UKR   48.12    0.00
 21  22  2297764 LINDSEY Jana  1984  USA   47.56    0.00

Men's Results

Rank Bib FIS Code Name Year Nation Result Level Points
 1  17  2193294 KUSHNIR Anton  1984  BLR   247.15    1000.00
 2  16  2416982 LIU Zhongqing  1985  CHN   240.83    800.00
 3  38  2438904 WU Chao  1987  CHN   240.14    600.00
 4  22  2330841 ULRICH Renato  1983  SUI   234.63    500.00
 5  1  2271185 OMISCHL Steve  1978  CAN   229.83    450.00
 6  15  2360140 OSIPAU Denis  1983  BLR   228.10    400.00
 7  26  2527482 JIA Zongyang  1991  CHN   217.10    360.00
 8  20  2416788 LI Ke  1985  CHN   215.40    320.00
 9  3  2265753 PETERSON Jeret  1981  USA   208.67    290.00
 10  8  2335400 SLIVETS Timofei  1984  BLR   206.14    260.00
 11  7  2274968 BLAIS Ryan  1979  CAN   200.03    240.00
 12  35  2330938 HAECHLER Christian  1983  SUI   182.78    220.00
 13  2  2263813 ST ONGE Ryan  1983  USA   111.95    200.00
 14  18  2484932 ROCHON Olivier  1989  CAN   106.86    180.00
 15  37  2526229 QI Guangpu  1990  CHN   106.79    160.00
 16  34  2526057 BELANGER Remi  1987  CAN   100.20    150.00
 17  32  2485099 MORRIS David  1984  AUS   97.40    140.00
 18  23  2343160 FERGUSON Dylan  1988  USA   96.24    130.00
 19  36  2344518 HAN Xiaopeng  1983  CHN   95.13    120.00
 20  25  2193585 MARUSHCHAK Dmitry  1980  RUS   90.18    110.00
 21  24  2398843 BAHRKE Scotty  1985  USA   89.38    100.00
 22  11  2306688 ISOZ Andreas  1984  SUI   88.94    90.00
 23  31  2526709 TABARA Naoya  1980  JPN   87.27    80.00
 24  39  2268566 VOKATY Lukas  1981  CZE   86.64    70.00
 25  4  2185631 NISSEN Kyle  1979  CAN   85.40    60.00
 26  13  2074178 KRAVCHUK Stanislav  1978  UKR   82.96    50.00
 27  30  2325215 THEPAUT Nicolas  1980  FRA   79.42    45.00
 28  33  2526397 SHAPKIN Yury  1987  RUS   78.77    40.00
 29  14  2192615 ABLAEV Enver  1979  UKR   78.76    36.00
 30  27  2398649 KURATA Kotaro  1978  JPN   74.31    32.00
 31  10  2312217 LAMBERT Thomas  1984  SUI   74.21    0.00
 32  40  2064090 GETTY Clyde  1961  ARG   70.90    0.00
 33  42  2527471 ABLYATIFOV Ruslan  1991  KAZ   70.50    0.00
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     2304166 SHOULDICE Warren  1983  CAN       

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