Aussie Graham wins moguls world championship silver

Australia’s Matt Graham has claimed a moguls silver medal on the world championships in Bakuriani, Georgia.

Graham — who had a disappointing Olympics final 12 months in Beijing after a preparation interrupted by a damaged collarbone — was edged out of the gold medal by Canadian Michael Kingsbury (89.82), with Sweden’s Walter Wallberg (88.52) claiming bronze.

The three-time Winter Olympian — who completed second on the 2018 Video games in PyeongChang — is in excellent kind, having received on the World Cup circuit for the primary time since 2017 at Deer Valley in the USA earlier this month.

Graham was collaborating at his sixth world championships and progressed by way of two rounds of elimination to achieve the six-man ‘tremendous last’.

The 28-year-old saved his greatest run for the ultimate spherical, wowing the judges with a near-perfect run to attain 88.90 factors.

“It is fairly surreal,” Graham mentioned.

“Everybody was snowboarding so nicely at this time and so quick.

“When the rating got here up and it was over 88, that was superior, I knew I had put the strain on the highest guys and managed to carry onto second place so I’m over the moon.”

Graham’s countryman Cooper Woods completed eleventh with a rating of 80.50.

AAP