From left: Dominique Maltais, Nelly Moenne Loccoz, Michela Moioli, Sandra Daniela Gerber, Belle Brockhoff and Chloé Trespeuch compete during the snowboard cross World Cup in Switzerland on Sunday.Maxime Schmid/The Associated Press
Canadian Dominique Maltais captured a women's World Cup snowboard cross event Sunday, while Kevin Hill finished third in the men's event.
Maltais, the Olympic silver medalist from Petite-Rivière-St-François, Que., won her qualifying round before emerging victorious in the big final. The Canadian was followed by French racers Nelly Moenne Loccoz and Chloé Trespeuch.
The victory was the 15th of Maltais's career.
"I'm really happy about the win," she said. "I wanted to take it easy this year because it's my last World Cup season, but I always want to finish on the podium.
"And I knew I could win this one. I like the course and I knew that I can be fast here."
Moenne Loccoz leads the World Cup standings ahead of Maltais heading into the final event next weekend at La Molina, Spain.
Australian Alex Pullin won the men's race ahead of Lucas Eguibar of Spain, who won Saturday's event and leads the World Cup standings.
Hill, of Vernon, B.C., was third for the second straight day.
Hamelin takes silver in short-track speed skating
Moscow Canadian Charles Hamelin captured a silver medal in the men's 1,000-metre event Sunday at the short-track speed skating world championships.
The native of Sainte-Julie, Que., posted a time of 1 minute 25.189 seconds to finish behind South Korea's Park Se-yeong (1:25.155). China's Shi Jingnan was third in 1:25.225.
Hamelin was also fourth in the men's 3,000-metre race. Hamelin collected Canada's only two medals in individual races over the weekend, claiming a bronze medal in the 1,500 metres Saturday. He finished fourth in the overall World Cup standings.
Rookie Kim Boutin of Sherbrooke, Que., was sixth in the women's 3,000-metre final and finished seventh in the overall standings.
Kingsbury eliminated in dual moguls event
Megeve, France Canadian Mikaël Kingsbury isn't letting his surprise elimination from the men's dual moguls event Sunday tarnish a season that saw him capture a fourth straight crystal globe.
Kingsbury, 22, was chasing a record 29th moguls title Sunday, which would have broken France's Edgar Grospiron's career mark. But Kingsbury was eliminated in the quarter-finals after falling hard in his race against American Bryon Wilson.
"I had a good start, but Wilson had a better one," said Kingsbury, who finished eighth. "I had to try to catch up and I had a little bad luck along the way.
"I hit one bump the wrong way and I fell before the second jump. I had the wind knocked out of me, but everything is fine. I'm happy the season is over, even if it was one of the best of my career."
Grospiron set the record in 1995, needing 80 World Cup starts to achieve the feat. By comparison, Kingsbury has registered 28 victories after just 60 races, but says he wasn't feeling any pressure to break the mark.
"Not at all. I know I'll break Edgar's record next season, so I didn't put any pressure on myself for the 29th victory," he said. "Today, I just wanted to have fun on the course because I knew I'd already won the crystal globe.
"Anyways, I never would've thought I'd reach 28 victories already this season."
The native of Deux-Montagnes, Que., won eight gold medals this season, including a record seven straight. While Kingsbury would have liked to achieve the milestone this year, he plans to use Sunday's defeat as motivation for next season.
France's Anthony Benna finished first in his last competition on the Haute-Savoie run, ahead of American Thomas Rowley and Russia's Alexandr Smyshlyaev.
Quebec City's Philippe Marquis finished fifth while Simon Pouliot-Kavanagh, also of Quebec City, was ninth and Montreal's Marc-Antoine Gagnon ended up 10th.
In women's action, Montreal's Chloé Dufour-Lapointe claimed the silver medal after American veteran Hannah Kearney finished first in the final in what was likely her last race.
Dufour-Lapointe marked her fifth podium finish this season, solidifying her third-place finish in the World Cup overall standings. Her sister Justine Dufour-Lapointe was third, her third podium effort of the season, to finish second overall.
Regina's Andi Naude was fourth Sunday, ahead of Quebec City's Audrey Robichaud and Montreal's Maxime Dufour-Lapointe. Alex-Anne Gagnon of Terrebonne, Que., finished 12th.
Editor's note: The headline on an earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Dominique Maltais won a silver at a women's World Cup snowboard cross event. In fact, she won gold. This version has been updated.