Ikuma Horishima places first in World Cup moguls event in Kazakhstan
Ikuma Horishima won the men's moguls Saturday at the Freestyle Skiing World Cup in Shymbulak, Kazakhstan, for his first victory of the season. The 21-year-old Horishima scored 81.72 to finish 2.35 points ahead of Pyeongchang Olympic gold medalist Mikael Kingsbury of Canada. Sweden's Walter Wallberg posted ...
Moguls skier Junko Hoshino, who failed to make the national team for the Pyeongchang Olympics, is determined to get back into the spotlight and is eyeing a medal at a future world championships. "I haven't achieved my goal of getting a medal at the Olympics ...
On the fourth day of the Pyeongchang Olympics, Daichi Hara took third place in the men's moguls, bringing the first medal for team Japan.
Freestyle skier Daichi Hara wins Japan's first medal of Pyeongchang Olympics
After qualifying in top spot for the third and last final of the night, the 20-year-old Hara appeared as if he might take the honor of being Japan's first gold medalist of the games, but came up short as Canada's Mikael Kingsbury and Australian ...
Debutant Ikuma Horishima on Wednesday became the first Japanese man to capture moguls gold at the Freestyle World Ski Championships. The 19-year-old was helped by a costly mistake by Canadian gold medal favorite Mikael Kingsbury, who touched the snow with his hand when landing an ...
Ikuma Horishima could only manage sixth place as Canadian star Mikael Kingsbury posted an all-time record 39th freestyle career win in the men's moguls at a World Cup event on Saturday. Horishima was Japan's best finisher in the men's event after advancing to the second ...
Junko Hoshino produced a career high when she placed second in a women's freestyle moguls World Cup competition at Tazawako ski resort on Saturday. Hoshino was runnerup to 2010 Vancouver Olympic champion Hannah Kearney of the United States. Canada's Audrey Robichaud was third. Until now, ...
Olympic breakthrough eludes Uemura again in bittersweet finale
When freestyle skier Aiko Uemura banged out the fastest time on her third and last run in the women's moguls final, the tears that welled up behind her goggles told a story of what she had hoped would be her crowning glory. What four years ...
Freestyle skier Aiko Uemura suffered more heartbreak on Saturday as she finished fourth for the second Olympics in a row in the women's moguls at the Sochi Games. The 34-year-old, who finished fourth in Vancouver four years ago after placing seventh, sixth and fifth in ...
Aiko Uemura got her fifth Olympics off to a strong start Thursday, when she qualified for the final round of the women's moguls although Japan's effort was marred by an injury to ace Miki Ito during practice. The 34-year-old Uemura, who finished fourth at the ...
Aiko Uemura took part in official practice on Wednesday a day ahead of moguls qualifying in what is her fifth Olympic Games. "I was able to get some good preparation done," said the 2007-2008 World Cup moguls champion, after getting a feel for the Sochi ...
