Max Parrot leads Canadian sweep of World Cup snowboard podium
LAAX, Switzerland — Max Parrot brought back one of his signature moves to lead Canada to a podium sweep at a World Cup snowboarding competition Friday.
Parrot, of Bromont, Que., captured gold in the men’s slopestyle event while Mark McMorris of Regina won silver and Tyler Nicholson of North Bay, Ont., took bronze. Seven Canadians made the 12-man final.
“It’s really amazing to hop on the podium with your friends,” Parrot said. “Canada is doing really well right now. We were seven Canadians out of 12 in the final, which is really crazy.”
Parrot won his first slopestyle title of the season with a score of 91.58. With his teammates setting the bar high on their runs, he responded with a backside triple-cork 1,620 — a jump featuring four and a half rotations while flipping off-axis three times — to claim the gold medal.