Kingsbury and Laffont earn clean sweeps in final freestyle ski World Cup

Canada's Mikael Kingsbury and Perrine Laffont of France claimed a clean sweep of the moguls titles with victory in the final dual moguls World Cup of the season. Thirty-year-old Kingsbury sewed up the dual moguls crystal globe with a dominant victory in Almaty, beating out Walter Wallberg of Sweden in the final.

Ad In the women's, Laffont won her fourth World Cup event in a row to claim the overall and dual mogul crystal globes, beating out Jaelin Kauf in the dual moguls final just as she did at the World Championships. World ChampionshipsTeenage sansation Podmilsak makes freestyle history in Georgia at World Championships04/03/2023 AT 15:25 In the men's, Kingsbury comfortably beat Daeyoong Jung of Korea and Nick Page of the USA en route to the semi-finals where he defeated Matt Graham who was searching for a first dual moguls win of the season.

The top two in the standings went head-to-head in the final, but Wallberg was no match for Kingsbury, who secured the dual moguls title having already picked up the single moguls and overall moguls crystal globes. Australia's Graham claimed bronze as he beat Japan's Ikuma Horishima, however, it was not enough to deny his opponent a place on the overall dual moguls podium.

Horishima's fourth place was also enough to claim second in the overall standings as Wallberg finished in third with Graham, 15 points behind him. Laffont eased through to the women's final where she met Kauf who had narrowly beaten her USA teammate Olivia Giaccio in the semi-finals.

Kauf pushed Laffont to the limit, but the Frenchwoman added the dual moguls crown to her single moguls win yesterday, sewing up the overall crystal globe in the process. Despite her second-place finish in Kazakhstan, Kauf could not