Yang Wenlong of China competes in the Men's Snowboard Big Air final during the FIS Snowboard & Freeski World Cup 2025, at the Shougang Park in Beijing, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) Mass Image Compressor Compressed this image. https://sourceforge.net/projects/icompress/ with Quality:80
Rising star Yang Wenlong targeted a place in the China squad for the Winter Olympics next year after his first FIS Snowboard Big Air World Cup triumph on Saturday.
Yang finished just ahead of Taiga Hasegawa, the reigning world champion from Japan, to take the gold medal in Kreischberg, Austria. He scored a total of 182.5 points, bettering Hasegawa’s 180.25, with Hasegawa’s compatriot Kira Kimura completing the podium on a score of 168.75.
Rising star Yang Wenlong targeted a place in the China squad for the Winter Olympics next year after his first FIS Snowboard Big Air World Cup triumph on Saturday.
Yang finished just ahead of Taiga Hasegawa, the reigning world champion from Japan, to take the gold medal in Kreischberg, Austria. He scored a total of 182.5 points, bettering Hasegawa’s 180.25, with Hasegawa’s compatriot Kira Kimura completing the podium on a score of 168.75.
Rising star Yang Wenlong targeted a place in the China squad for the Winter Olympics next year after his first FIS Snowboard Big Air World Cup triumph on Saturday.
Yang finished just ahead of Taiga Hasegawa, the reigning world champion from Japan, to take the gold medal in Kreischberg, Austria. He scored a total of 182.5 points, bettering Hasegawa’s 180.25, with Hasegawa’s compatriot Kira Kimura completing the podium on a score of 168.75.
