It didn’t come easy, but when the first competition of the 2018 FIS Junior Freestyle Ski & Snowboard World Championships finally went down at the Audi quattro Winter Games NZ it did not disappoint, as a heavy-hitting men’s big air competition opened the festivities in hugely entertaining fashion on Sunday, with Japan’s Takeru Otsuka claiming the gold medal.

After the first two legs in Szczyrk (POL) and Wisla (POL), the Beskidy-Tour as part of the Ski Jumping Continental Cup ended after three days with a competition in Frenstat (CZE). And there the hosts had a good reason to celebrate on Sunday afternoon.

For the first time, two PCR winners were crowed in the Nordic Combined Summer Grand Prix and it was Austria’s Lisa Hirner and Akito Watabe who took the honours on the first competition day in Oberwiesenthal.