Ski and Snowboard Club Vail’s Ollie Martin qualified second out of heat 1 in the big air at the FIS Snowboard World Championships on Tuesday in Engadin, Switzerland.

Martin, who claimed his first World Cup win in Calgary last month and won a bronze medal in the slopestyle on Friday, scored a 79.25 on his second run and posted an 87.25 on his third for a 166.50 total, 9.5 points behind Japan’s Hiroto Ogiwara. Dusty Henrickson was 20th in the heat while fellow American Sean Fitzsimons was ninth in heat 2, won by China’s Wenlong Yang (173.25).

The top five from each heat qualified to the final, set for March 28 at 12:30 p.m. MST.

Audrey Crowley competes in Veysonnaz FIS Para Alpine World Cup

Audrey Crowley placed seventh and fifth in a pair of FIS Para Alpine World Cup giant slalom races on March 20 and March 22. Competing in the women’s standing division, Crowley completed the Piste de l’ours course in a two-run total time of 2 minutes, 11.83 seconds in the first race. Swedish world champion Ebba Arsjo (2:01.52) took the win as Mengqiu Zhang (2:05.85) and Aurelie Richard (2:09.17) rounded out the podium.

Arsjo and Zhang went 1-2 again in the second competition as Crowley, who took a bronze in the event at the world championships last month, finished 1.1 seconds off the podium.

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Federica Brignone secures third globe of the season at World Cup Finals GS

Federica Brignone locked in the giant slalom crystal globe — her third globe of the season — at the 2025 FIS Alpine World Cup Finals on Tuesday in Sun Valley, Idaho. The 34-year-old, who won 10 races this year en route to the overall and downhill globes (she finished second in the super-G standings by 35 points), placed second behind Lara Gut-Behrami by 0.14 seconds. Sara Hector of Sweden rounded out the podium.

With the victory, Gut-Behrami joined an exclusive club of skiers — Hermann Maier and Pirmin Zurbriggen — to have won at least 10 races in three different disciplines. She is the first female Alpine skier to achieve the feat.

Three Americans competed in the final women’s GS race of the year on the Challenger course. A.J. Hurt led the way in eighth while Nina O’Brien placed 12th and Lauren Macuga scored World Cup points in 15th.