CYPRESS MOUNTAIN, Canada (Kyodo) Japanese freestyle skier Yugo Tsukita took second place in the men's moguls at a World Cup event on Saturday.

Tsukita collected 25.09 points in the meet at Cypress Mountain doubling as a test event for the 2010 Vancouver Games to finish behind Canada's Alexandre Bilodeau, who took the gold with 25.65 points. Frenchman Guilbaut Colas was third with 24.78.

Elsewhere for Japan, Miki Ito was fourth in the women's moguls won by Jennifer Heil, while Aiko Uemura placed fifth after advancing to the final for the first time in three events.