Olympic silver medalist Jaelin Kauf earned her first World Cup moguls victory in more than six years while extending her podium streak to seven events in a row between moguls and dual moguls.
Kauf, a 28-year-old Wyoming native, took the Intermountain Health Freestyle International presented by Stifel at Deer Valley, Utah, on Thursday night.
She scored 80.75 points in the super final, edging 2018 Olympic gold medalist Perrine Laffont of France (79.63).
She did so in front of family and friends who carried large letter J signs and on the third anniversary of her Olympic medal-winning performance in China.
Kauf ranks second in this season’s World Cup moguls standings behind Laffont (in the notable absence of injured 2022 Olympic champion Jakara Anthony of Australia).
Kauf is ranked No. 1 in dual moguls, which makes its Olympic debut in 2026.
On Friday, American Quinn Dehlinger won the aerials event at Deer Valley after missing most of last season due to a knee injury that led to surgery.
Dehlinger, a 22-year-old from the Cincinnati area, landed “the Daddy” — a back full-double full-full — for 122.57 points, topping Dmytro Kotovskyi of Ukraine (115.49) and American Chris Lillis (104.43), who both performed the same trick.
“It’s always been a dream to win here at Deer Valley,” Dehlinger said, according to U.S. Ski and Snowboard. “Winning on home soil is just something different. This is the Super Bowl of aerials. The crowd is always the biggest, the environment is always the best, so to win here is something special.”
Before last year’s injury, Dehlinger won silver at the 2023 World Championships as the youngest American man to ever make an individual Olympic or world championships aerials podium.
He’s the only American man to win an aerials World Cup in the last four years.
In 2022, he was the highest-ranked American man to not make the Olympic aerials team.
Competition in Deer Valley concludes with dual moguls on Saturday. Deer Valley highlights air Sunday at 2 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock.
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