Brendan Mackay will bring home a gold medal from the freestyle skiing world championships, after the Calgary native was crowned world champion in the men's halfpipe final on Saturday in Bakuriani, Georgia.
Mackay scored a 97.25 in the final, topping the 95.75 of silver-medallist Jon Sallinen of Finland. Ferreira of the United States rounded out the podium, taking bronze with a score 0f 93.00.
Simon d'Artois of Whistler, B.C. finished just out of the medals, scoring 92.00 for a fourth-place finish. Andrew Longino and Dylan Marineau, both of Calgary, did not qualify for the final.
In the women's freestyle halfpipe final, Rachael Karker, of Erin, Ont. won a bronze medal. Karker put up a score of 92.25, behind gold medallist Hanna Faulhaber of the United States (95.75) and Great Britain's Zoe Akin (94.50).