Whistler’s Teal Harle and Vernon’s Elena Gaskell kicked off the freestyle skiing season on the podium at the Big Air Festival in Chur, Switzerland on Friday, Oct. 22.
The festival in Switzerland was the first World Cup stop of the 2021-2022 season.
Gaskell’s score of 91.00 was good enough for a bronze medal, while Harle was able to battle back from adversity to snag silver with his score of 98.00.
After falling on the first run in the final round, Harle bounced back in the second run to take the lead. However, gold wasn’t in the cards for Harle as Austria’s Matej Svancer pulled off a nearly flawless second run to take the lead by one.
This silver medal marks Harle’s sixth in a World Cup competition, three of which came in Big Air. His last appearance on the podium was at the World Cup in Atlanta in December 2019, where he won bronze.
The next freestyle skiing World Cup will take place in Austria on Nov. 19 and 20.
