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Lake Placid hosts NorAm aerials event

From left, Team USA’s Karen Elliott, Megan Smallhouse and Tasia Tanner stand atop the aerials podium at the Olympic Jumping Complex in Lake Placid on Saturday. (Provided photo — Olympic Regional Development Authority)

LAKE PLACID — For the first time since 2019, Lake Placid hosted an aerials competition at the Olympic Jumping Complex.

The venue hosted and FIS Freestyle North American Cup this past Friday and Saturday, which was part of a NorAm Cup tour that spanned from February to the first week of March.

During the tour, athletes competed in six events across North America, including Deer Valley in Park City, Utah; Apex Mountain in Hedley, British Columbia; Lac-Beauport in Quebec; Val St. Come in Quebec; Stratton Mountain in Vermont and in Lake Placid.

The tour’s grand finale featured the last moguls and dual moguls events at Stratton Mountain, along with aerials competitions in Lake Placid this past weekend.

Competing at the Olympic Jumping Complex on Friday, Canada’s Marion Thenault won the women’s event on with 78.96 points. Team USA’s Megan Smallhouse placed second with 76.23 and teammate Tasia Tanner was third with 75.98.

The following day, the U.S. women swept the podium with Smallhouse winning the event with 85.68 points. Karen Elliott was second with 82.53 points and Tanner was third with 78.88.

Tanner emerged as the NorAm women’s champion, securing her title with two third-place finishes. She edged out Emma Weiss in the overall rankings by just two points, finishing with 202 points to Weiss’s 200. Weiss, who had won two events in Lac-Beauport, did not compete in Lake Placid, allowing Tanner to clinch the title. Smallhouse claimed third place overall with 180 points, thanks to a win and a runner-up spot in Lake Placid.

On the men’s side, Canada’s Alexandre Duachaine of Canada won Friday’s event with a score of 110.22. His teammate Emile Nadeau placed second with 103.10 and Team USA’s Connor Curran was third with 93.06.

On Saturday, Nadeau won the men’s competition with a score of 90.04 points. He was followed by Canadian teammates Gabriel Dion in second with 88.53 points and Victor Primeau in third with 82.13.

Nadeau dominated the season, inspired by a top-three finish at the home World Cup in Lac-Beauport. Nadeau racked up two victories and one second-place finish across four NorAm tour competitions, ending the season as the champion with 325 points. His teammates, Duchaine and Lewis Irving, secured the second and third spots in the overall standings with 216 and 205 points, respectively.

In moguls at Stratton Mountain, Team USA’s Kasey Hogg took the overall title for the women, improving on her last year’s runner-up positions in all three classifications. Hogg amassed 560 points throughout the season, with Canada’s Jessica Linton (470) and Team USA’s Kylie Kariotis (370) finishing second and third, respectively.

Hogg led the way in the moguls ranking ahead of Linton and Canada’s Maya Mikkelsen, while in the dual moguls, Kariotis secured the runner-up position, with Linton finishing third.

On the men’s side, Team USA’s Charlie Mickel topped all three rankings, finishing the season with 470 points. Canada’s Charles Beaulieu was hot on his heels in second place with 450 points, and Samuel Goodison rounded out the top three with 400 points. Beaulieu and Goodison also claimed second and third places, respectively, in both moguls and dual moguls standings.

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