Australian teen sensation Indra Brown introduced herself as one of many potential stars of subsequent month’s Winter Olympics as she continued a exceptional begin to her World Cup profession with a maiden victory within the girls’s freeski halfpipe.

The 15-year-old maintained a run of World Cup podium finishes in her first three occasions by making it on to the highest step for the primary time on the Canadian resort of Calgary.

Brown matched a World Cup mark set by 15-year-old Swede Jennie-Lee Burmansson, who claimed podium finishes in her first three slopestyle begins within the 2017-18 season.

“I am simply filled with pleasure, tremendous comfortable that I used to be in a position to land a run and ski how I did at this time in these circumstances,” mentioned Brown, who earned a rating of 85.20 for her first run, that no different skier was in a position to match.

China’s Zhang Kexin, 23, was second with 84.20 and American Svea Irving, additionally 23, third with 83.20.

“I am actually comfortable and stoked, and excited for extra,” added Brown, who completed third on her World Cup debut in Secret Backyard, China, in early December and second within the US resort of Copper Mountain earlier than the Christmas break.

She turned the youngest Australian to assert a World Cup victory and the primary from her nation to earn three World Cup podiums.

Brown’s maiden win in Canada moved her prime of the ladies’s freeski halfpipe standings on 240 factors, 55 factors away from Zhang in second place.

She is but to be confirmed within the Australian staff for the Winter Olympics, which start in Milan and Cortina, in Italy, on 6 February.

A variety might be made after the ultimate World Cup occasion earlier than the Video games, which takes place within the US resort of Aspen from 8-10 January.