The youngest Australian to ever score a podium finish at a winter sports World Cup, Brown crashed on her second run while trying a new trick, after putting up a strong 80-point run on her opener.<\/p>\n
Brown’s podium run included a leftside 900, rightside 900, leftside 720, switch rightside 540, switch leftside 720, and finished with an alley-oop, with grabs in all but one jump.<\/p>\n
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Brown in action during the women’s freeski halfpipe final. (Getty Images: Sean M. Haffey)<\/p>\n
Great Britain’s Zoe Atkin won gold with 89.25 points, while China’s Kexin Chang claimed bronze on 77.50 points.<\/p>\n
Brown now sits second in the World Cup standings with 140 points, trailing Atkin (180) and ahead of Chang (105).<\/p>\n
Her next event will be the Calgary World Cup on January 3.<\/p>\n
The Melbourne-based teen has appeared as a dark horse to medal at the Winter Olympics, which begins in February.<\/p>\n
Brown spent five years in Canada as a child, where she picked up skiing.<\/p>\n
“That was the thing all winter, seven months long. The only thing you really could do is go up to your local ski hill and join a club or just ski around with your family,” she said last week.<\/p>\n
“I joined a local ski hill club [in Canada], and they would do some mountains, some park, and when I started getting into the terrain park, the halfpipe, I realised how much I enjoyed it, how much I excelled at a young age, and I just went from there.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian teenage sensation Indra Brown has secured back-to-back freeski halfpipe medals in her World Cup debut. After claiming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,190846,44,85848,31080,21418],"class_list":["post-362498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-indra-brown","tag-news","tag-skiing","tag-winter-olympics","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}