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Posted: 2024-02-04 21:46:24

Jakara Anthony is Australia's most successful ever moguls skier after claiming her 19th FIS World Cup gold medal on the Champion Run at Deer Valley.

The record-breaking 25-year-old claimed her 11th World Cup title of the season by claiming the dual moguls crown in Utah.

"That's definitely one of my best competition runs I have ever done," Anthony said at the finish.

"And especially my best here on the Champion run, so to do that in the big final against Jaelin [Kauf] was a pretty special moment."

The Champion Run at Deer Valley is one of the longest running freestyle skiing venues — and one of its most prestigious.

It took centre stage at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games and has hosted the World Championships three times.

Jakara Anthony competes in the moguls

Jakara Anthony crashed during the individual moguls event on Friday.(Supplied: OWIA/Chris Hocking)

And in front of the biggest crowd of the season, Anthony made up for her shock crash during the solo moguls on Friday night.

"There is no event World Cup like this one," Anthony said.

"The atmosphere is incredible, the whole finish area is packed with people so to get to perform and put on a show for them is a really special feeling."

The Olympic champion in Beijing 2022, Anthony's list of achievements is growing every time she straps on her skis.

With her 11th win out of a possible 13 this season, Anthony claimed the overall moguls' Crystal Globe as overall World Cup champion with three events to go.

The win was her 19th career World Cup victory, taking her past two-time Olympic medallist Dale Begg-Smith as the most successful Australian moguls skier of all time.

Jakara Anthony leaps in the air crossing her skis

Jakara Anthony has been almost unstoppable this season.(Supplied: OWIA/Chris Hocking)

She also tied legendary American Hannah Kearney for the most ever World Cup wins in a single season by a moguls skier — a feat Anthony described as "absolutely mind-blowing".

The weekend had started with a shock.

A stunning crash in Friday's individual event ended a run of eight-consecutive gold medals for the Australian — who had, until that point, stood on the podium at every single event in the season thus far.

With three events still remaining: Moguls and duals in Almaty, Kazakhstan on March 8-9 and moguls at Valmalenco, Italy on March 16, Anthony still has a chance to make history.  

"It's a really big season for us this year," Anthony said.

"We are going to get a training camp in next, and fine tune some of the finer details of my run, and then get back out there in Kazakhstan."

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