Winter sports: Kingsbury outduels field to win gold

TAZAWAKO, JAPAN— Canada’s Mikaël Kingsbury captured gold in the dual moguls World Cup on Sunday in a duel with Japan’s Ikuma Horishima.

Kingsbury won with 87.94 points, finishing ahead of Horishima (86.63) in the super final. The small final was between Australia’s Matt Graham and Britain’s Ben Cavet, the latter winning with a third-place finish in the competition.

“With each duel, I felt better and better. I was going faster and bigger in my jumps and I also knew that on the other side of the bracket, Ikuma was skiing really well and very fast,” Kingsbury said. “When it was time for the final, I talked to my coaches at the top of the course and we made a last-minute decision to do a 1440 cork like I did the day before. I didn’t have time to think about it. I landed the 1440 and then skied as fast as I could. I managed to cross the line before Ikuma.” SKIING: Roni Remme laid down the fastest slalom run of the day to earn her first World Cup medal — a silver — and put Canada on the podium in women’s alpine combined racing on Sunday in Carns-Montana, Switzerland.

Remme, who was fifth in the combined at this year’s alpine world championships in Sweden earlier this month, earned Canada’s first World Cup alpine medal of the season by posting a combined time of two minutes 15.58 seconds — just 0.38 seconds behind gold-medallist Frederica Brignone of Italy. Switzerland’s Wendy Holdener rounded out the podium. SKI CROSS: Canada’s Brady Leman earned bronze in a skicross race in Sunny Valley, Russia, stepping onto the World Cup podium for the third time this season.

Toronto’s Kevin Drury was sixth, while Montreal’s Chris Del Bosco finished eighth to tie his season-best result. SKELETON: Reigning Olympic men’s skeleton champion Yun Sungbin of South Korea won the final race of the World Cup season on Sunday, edging Russia’s Alexander Tretiakov by six hundredths of a second in Calgary. Tomass Dukurs of Latvia took bronze.

Dave Greszczyszyn of Brampton, Ont., was tied for third after the first of two runs, but dropped to sixth.