Del Bosco & Serwa Earn Gold at Deer Valley
Chris Del Basco and Kelsey Serwa made sure they'd
end up on the same platform this time around.
A week ago, Serwa won
Winter X Games gold in skier cross, while her Canadian teammate, Del
Basco, won silver. On Friday afternoon at Deer Valley Resort, the
teammates each won Freestyle World Ski Championship gold.
The
Canadian duo dominated their respective skier cross finals in the golden
sweep, while fellow Canadian Julia Murray earned silver.
"I had
two goals coming into the season: one was to win X Games and the next
was to win World Championships," Serwa said. "I'm pretty happy right
now. I'm a little sore, but our bodies recover. It's all good."
Following
Del Bosco on the men's podium was Finland's Jauni Pellinen who finished
with a silver medal. Austria's Andreas Matt captured the bronze.
On
the women's side, finishing behind the Canadian duo of Serwa and Murray
was Sweden's Anna Holmlund, who earned the bronze medal.
Holmlund
said she has always dreamt of making the podium at a World
Championships event.
"Since I was one year old," Holmlund said.
Racers
competed in a preliminary heat Friday, and the top two finishers from
each advanced. In order to win gold, Del Basco and Serwa had to place
top-two in the first three races, and ultimately, win the finale.
"I
was looking forward to having a really good race," Del Bosco said.
The
athletes praised the eight-stage winding course on Deer Valley's Solid
Muldoon run and most said it was a solid course for a competition of this magnitude.
The lone
American in both the men's and women's races, X Games gold-medal winner
John Teller, finished fifth overall.
Teller had an impressive
week, and was even more impressed with the turnout of the fans from
north of the border.
"That team probably has the best support of
any team here," Teller said of the Canadians. "It shows."
by Christopher Kamrani OF THE RECORD STAFF : The Park Record
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