Japan's Ruka Hirano and Mitsuki Ono both won their third straight snowboarding halfpipe World Cup events Friday, wrapping up the season by respectively claiming their maiden men's and women's overall titles.
The two Beijing Winter Olympians finished the season strongly. The 20-year-old Hirano scored 88.50 points for his fifth career World Cup win. The 18-year-old Ono tallied 89.75 for her third victory.
After taking the lead by scoring 84.50 on his first run, Hirano bettered it in his third and final try by landing a double cork 1440.
Australia's Valentino Guseli was runner-up to Hirano with 82.00, while Japan's 17-year-old Shuichiro Shigeno scored 81.75 for his first podium finish.
Hirano topped the men's season standings with 314 points, comfortably ahead of Guseli, who was second with 246.
Ono, who was ninth at the Beijing Games exactly a year earlier despite finishing second in the preliminaries, put down the finals' highest-scoring runs in her first two tries.
"I'm really happy. It's an unbelievable feeling to win (today) and also secure the discipline title," Ono said.
Canada's Elizabeth Hosking scored 86.00 to finish second behind Ono, followed by Switzerland's Berenice Wicki with 72.50.
Ono also won the overall title by a sizable margin, with 360 points to Hosking's 237.
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