Canada's Sébastien Toutant lands silver at snowboard worlds
Norway's Kleveland takes gold; Canadians Karker, d'Artois snag ski halfpipe silver
Canadian snowboarder Sebastien Toutant captured a silver medal in the men's slopestyle event at the world championships in Aspen, Colo., on Friday.
Later, fellow Canadians Rachael Karker and Simon d'Artois also snagged silver in the ski halfpipe event.
Finland's Rene Rinnekangas was third.
Max Parrot of Bromont, Que., was sixth, Mark McMorris of Regina 42nd and Liam Brearley of Gravenhurst, Ont., 46th.
WATCH | Sébastien Toutant shows out with silver medal finish in FIS Snowboard worlds slopestyle event:
Toutant won gold in big air at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics and was 11th in slopestyle.
Also on Friday, Zoi Sadowski Synnott of New Zealand won the women's slopestyle event.
Laurie Blouin of Quebec City was 12th, Brooke Voigt of Fort McMurray, Alta., 13th and Jasmine Baird of Georgetown, Ont., 22nd.
WATCH | Norway's Marcus Kleveland captures gold in slopestyle at Snowboard worlds:
Canadians were also successful in ski halfpipe.
Karker, of Erin, Ont., recovered from the worst score of the day in her first run — an 8.5 — to score over 87 in her final two, including a 91.75 to secure silver.
"It's definitely a relief landing a solid run. I am really happy to come back after falling in my first run and getting onto the podium," said Karker.
"It was really soft today, it makes it easy to hook an edge and not be able to get out, it was a little tricky but I was able to handle it in my second and third runs."
It was the 23-year-old's first career world championship podium in her first attempt.
China's Gu Eileen Ailing captured gold with a winning score of 93 while Great Britain's Zoe Atkin rounded out the podium with a bronze-medal score of 90.5.
Calgary's Amy Fraser did not qualify for the final and finished ninth overall.
WATCH | Karker earns silver at 1st world championships:
On the men's side, Whistler, B.C., native Simon d'Artois authored a similar story to Karker, recovering from a rough first run to earn silver at 91.25.
Also like Karker, d'Artois, 29, landed a medal in his first world championships. He also owns five podium finishes at World Cups, the last coming in 2019.
"I'm happy to be back and to see the work and time that I put into coming back stronger from my injury pay off," said d'Artois. "It definitely gives me confidence for the year to come and lots of relief."
New Zealand's Nico Porteous earned the country's first-ever freestyle ski world title at 94.5, while American Birk Irving brought home bronze at 89.75.
Canadians Brendan MacKay and Noah Bowman finished seventh and ninth, respectively.
WATCH | d'Artois skis to silver:
With files from CBC Sports
