Brookes wins first World Cup gold

Britain's Mia Brookes produced a superb final run to take women's gold at the big air World Cup in Beijing.

The 17-year-old slopestyle world champion was second after the opening run before a disappointing second run.

With the best two runs to count, she scored 94.000 on her final run - the highest score of the day - for a total of 179.75 and her first World Cup title.

"I'm really hyped! I didn’t expect to win, but I just wanted to do the tricks I did and I landed them and that ended up being enough, so I’m really hyped," Brookes said.

Japan's Mari Fukada took silver with 176.75 and Olympic champion Anna Gasser from Austria bronze with 69.00.

Brookes is the reigning big air World Cup crystal globe holder, having finished top in the standings last year.

She started her season with a silver medal at the freestyle snowboard slopestyle World Cup in Cardrona, in New Zealand, in September and finished fifth in her opening big air competition in Switzerland in October.

Brookes was too young to compete at the 2022 Winter Olympics