Best of 2018/2019: Aerials

Second part of our “best of” photo galleries from the past World Cup season. Today we take a look at our favourite images from the FIS Freestyle Ski aerials World Cup tour including events in Lake Placid (USA), Moscow (RUS), Minsk (BLR), and Shimao Lotus Mountain (CHN), as well as the the pinnacle competition of the season at the Utah 2019 World Championships in Deer Valley (USA).

2018/2019 FIS Freestyle Ski aerials World Cup overall standing:

Ladies: 1st Xu Mengtao (CHN), 2nd Xu Sicun (CHN), 3rd Laura Peel (AUS)

Men: 1st Wang Xindi (CHN), 2nd Sun Jiaxu (CHN), 3rd Anton Kushnir (BLR)

Utah 2019 World Championships:

Ladies: 1st Aliaksandra Ramanouskaya (BLR), 2nd Liubov Nikitina (RUS), 3rd Xu Mengtao (CHN)

Men: 1st Maxim Burov (RUS), 2nd Oleksandr Abramenko (UKR), 3rd Noe Roth (SUI)

Team: 1st Switzerland (Bouvard, Gygax & Roth), 2nd China (Xu, Sun & Wang), 3rd Russia (Nikitina, Nikitin & Burov)

For competitions' recaps please see here: LAKE PLACID, MOSCOW, MINSK, SHIMAO LOTUS MOUNTAIN (INDIVIDUAL & TEAM) & UTAH 2019 WORLD CHAMPS (INDIVIDUAL & TEAM)

Full photo galleries are also available here: LAKE PLACID, MOSCOW, MINSK, SHIMAO LOTUS MOUNTAIN & UTAH 2019 WORLD CHAMPS (INDIVIDUAL & TEAM)

Video highlights are available HERE

Photo Credit : Mateusz Kielpinski (FIS), Alexey Shabanov, Laurent Salino (Agence Zoom)