Austrian snowboarder Anna Gasser adds big air World Championship glory to growing title haul in Bakuriani, Georgia

Anna Gasser added another gold medal to her glittering collection with a brilliant World Championship victory in Bakuriani. The two-time Olympic champion, 31, battled past Japanese star Miyabi Onitsuka by 1.25 points as Australian Tess Coady bagged bronze in Saturday morning's big air event.

Ad Austrian ace Gasser last soared to World Championship glory in Sierra Nevada back in 2017 before claiming back-to-back Olympic titles in PyeongChang and Beijing. Snowboard'Lighting it up here' — Best run from Xuetong Cai on her way to snowboard halfpipe winYESTERDAY AT 10:58 And she racked up a second World Championship title — and third overall medal — one year on from that Chinese victory to further outline her hegemony as the globe's leading big air snowboarder.

Taiga Hasegawa went one better than compatriot Onitsuka by claiming a dominant victory in the men's event. Adrian Smiseth Sejersted denied maiden World Cup victory by poor weather in Aspen Zoe Atkin banishes post-Beijing demons by soaring to World Championship silver in Bakuriani Kajsa Vickhoff Lie claims women's downhill gold, while Sofia Goggia earns fourth downhill World Cup Crystal Globe The Japanese star landed two imperious jumps to breeze past Norwegian Mons Roisland and Switzerland's Nicolas Huber by more than 20 points.