According to the Canadian Press, three Canadian athletes from the province of Quebec won World Cup gold medals on Saturday.
In the World Cup men's moguls competition in Inawashiro, Japan, Mikael Kingsbury of Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec won the gold medal by scoring 23.41 points. He was a tenth of a point better than American Brad Wilson. Canadian Olympic champion Alexandre Bilodeau of Montreal won the World Cup bronze medal.
Kingsbury won his sixth World Cup title of the season and expanded his lead on Bilodeau in the World Cup overall standings. He is the favourite to win the gold medal in men's moguls at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi.
In the World Cup women's moguls competition also in Inawashiro, Audrey Robichaud of Quebec City won the gold medal with a score of 20.62 points. She was 0.29 points better than Nikola Sudova of the Czech Republic. Chloe Dufour-Lapointe of Montreal finished in third place.
Finally in women's parallel slalom snowboarding, Caroline Calve of Hull, Quebec won a World Cup gold medal in Moscow by beating Aleksandra Krol of Poland in the final.
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