Jakara Anthony claims gold for Australia at Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in women's moguls

New Olympic champion Jakara Anthony has taken women’s moguls into a new league after crushing the competition to end Australia’s 12-year Winter Olympics gold-medal drought.

The 23-year-old led the two-day competition through every round and then scored 83.09 points to comfortably win the six-woman super final to earn gold on Sunday.

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American Jaelin Kauf (80.28) was a surprise second while Russian Anastasiia Smirnova (77.72) collected bronze ahead of defending Olympic champion Perrine Laffont.

After finishing fourth on her Olympic debut four years ago in PyeongChang, Anthony identified the air component as the weakness in the women’s competition.

Through Beijing, she was the only skier - and the first women in Olympic competition - to include a ‘cork 720 mute’ jump, with the higher degree of difficulty giving her an edge on her rivals.

She completed the jump around 2000 times in practice at the newly-built water ramp training facility in Brisbane before using it in her competition run.

“My top air jump is called a cork 720 mute,” she said, explaining that the cork is the off-axis rotation, 720 is two rotations and the mute is the way she grabbed her skis.

“I started competing that just the season.

“That’s my highest degree of difficulty and it’s pretty special and I think I might be the first girl at the Olympics to have competed one so that’s pretty special.

“The women’s aerial packages have progressed so much since PyeongChang - it’s like night and day - and I will definitely be looking to continue to progress my own and keep pushing everyone else.”

Anthony said she wasn’t driven by having