{"id":245019,"date":"2026-01-18T16:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/245019\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T16:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:37:08","slug":"murase-kokomo-tops-womens-slopestyle-podium-at-laax-open-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/245019\/","title":{"rendered":"Murase Kokomo tops women\u2019s slopestyle podium at Laax Open 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/murase-kokomo\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Murase Kokomo<\/a> claimed victory in the women\u2019s snowboard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/sport-events\/2026-fis-snowboard-world-cup-laax\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">slopestyle<\/a>\u00a0at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/sport-events\/2026-fis-snowboard-world-cup-laax\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIS Snowboard\u00a0World Cup in\u00a0Laax<\/a>,\u00a0backing up a strong opening run with a winning score of 77.55 to take the top step of the podium on Sunday, 18 January.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/en\/olympic-games\/beijing-2022\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beijing 2022<\/a> Olympic bronze medallist in women\u2019s snowboard big air now turns her focus to the upcoming\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/milanocortina2026.olympics.com\/en\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026<\/a>, where she will be aiming to improve on her previous podium finish. Murase, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/news\/snowboarding-murase-kokomo-lands-first-ever-womens-backside-triple-cork-1620-ahead-of-milano-cortina-2026\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first woman to land a backside triple cork 1620<\/a>, has now reached her second World Cup podium of the 2026 season and her first slopestyle victory since Cardrona 2024, with both results coming in slopestyle as she finds key form in the Olympic year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unbelievable, today was super windy, but I\u2019m so happy with my run,&#8221; she told an FIS reporter.<\/p>\n<p>Lily Dhawornvej of the United States finished second with 71.18, while two-time Olympic champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/anna-gasser\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Gasser<\/a> of Austria completed the podium in third after braving the windy conditions to deliver her best score of 69.70 on\u00a0the second run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s\u00a0Murase Kokomo claimed victory in the women\u2019s snowboard slopestyle\u00a0at the FIS Snowboard\u00a0World Cup in\u00a0Laax,\u00a0backing up a strong opening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-245019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}