Luca Harrington competing under the lights at the Big Air World Cup finals. Credit Chad Buchholz / FIS Freestyle Photo: supplied
New Zealand snow sport athletes athletes Ruby Star Andrews and Luca Harrington secured top 10 finishes at the Freeski World Cup held in Tignes, France.
Queenstown's Andrews first run in the Freeski Slopestyle set the platform for her seventh placed finish.
She completed three different direction corked 900 spins on the three jumps of the opening run with solid tricks on the technical rails.
Earlier Harrington grabbed ninth in the men's Freeski Big Air. The Wanaka ahtlete put down a heater of a first run, stomping a switch right double corked 1800 with a Japan grab. He was unable to pair this trick with another of equal calibre in the hotly contested competition.
Harrington had also qualified through to the finals in the Freeski Slopestyle in fourth place, but after his crash in the Big Air event, he decided to rest up before the upcoming Slopestyle World Cup in Switzerland.
Snowboarders Lyon Farrell (Arrowtown, 25) and Tiarn Collins (Queenstown, 24) qualified through to the men's Snowboard Slopestyle final. Unfortunately the flat light and snow flurries made it difficult for the riders as Collins was 13th, with Farrell 16th.
The Kiwi Park and Pipe Team will now head back to Switzerland ahead of the final Freeski and Snowboard Slopestyle World Cup next weekend.
