Bowman continues to dominate

By USSA

PARK CITY – X Games champions Maddie Bowman (South Lake Tahoe) and David Wise (Reno) stayed on their roll Feb. 2, winning in Park City’s superpipe at the Visa U.S. Freeskiing Grand Prix.

It was the third straight win for Bowman – second straight for Wise. The two were crowned U.S. champions for their results across the two U.S. Grand Prix halfpipes.

Men’s and women’s finals saw amazing runs with high scores for the combination FIS Freestyle World Cup and AFP Platinum level contest.

The win gave Bowman a clean sweep of the two Grand Prix’s after her win at Copper Mountain in January.

Wise’s win avenged a defeat to Canadian Mike Riddle in Copper, matching his season-ending win last year in the March Mammoth Mountain contest.

Teen Torin Yater-Wallace (Aspen) was second in a men’s event.

Less than a single point separated first and third with Wise taking the win by a mere two-tenths – 93.8 to 93.6 over Yater-Wallace.

U.S. Freeskiing Rookie Team skier Aaron Blunck (Crested Butte, Colo.) was fifth in just his fifth World Cup. Rookie Annalisa Drew (Andover, Mass.) was sixth.

Bowman claims her fourth first place finish on the 2013 AFP World Tour and overtakes Annalisa Drew in the top spot on the AFP womens Halfpipe World Ranking.