The 21-year-old has won with a score of 80.50 points, beating Japan's Ruki Tobita into second.

National coach Tom Wilmot says it's a phenomenal result.

Compatriot Carlos Garcia Knight finished 33rd.

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28 Sep: Following weeks of avalanches, skiers and snowboarders are being urged to keep to the tracks this weekend in the Southern Lakes

20 May: Skiers and snowboarders are being advised to be up to speed with new changes to Mt Hutt's parking

18 Mar: To the ski slopes of Saalbach , Austria..

12 Mar: The family of 21-year-old Christchurch woman who died in an avalanche in Japan says she was full of vitality and had a passion for life

12 Mar: Two New Zealanders have been killed in an avalanche, while backcountry skiing in Japan's northern island of Hokkaido

11 Feb: Alpine skier Alice Robinson has finished second at the FIS Giant Slalom World Cup held in Andorra

30 Jan: X Games silver medallist Nico Porteous is thriving under a liberated mindset

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