Quebec (QC), Canada – Canada’s Antoine Truchon won the final big air contest of the 2012 LG Snowboard FIS World Cup season Saturday night in Quebec to claim his career’s first World Cup victory on home snow. Finland’s Janne Korpi, who only two days earlier secured the Halfpipe World Cup title, also secured the Big Air World Cup Crystal Globe by finishing Saturday’s competition in fourth.
Truchon, 21, of Montreal, Quebec, scored a total of 176.75 points to finish ahead of Finland’s Petja Piiroinen and fellow Canadian Matts Kulisek, who ended up in third after placing second in the Quebec City contest in 2011.
“Winning my first World Cup on home soil feels pretty good. I’m really happy about that. I really couldn’t expect more from this,” Truchon said.
Truchon’s victory came in only his third World Cup start after finishing well out of the finals on his first two attempts. He won on Saturday night with a frontside 1080 double cork (run 1) and a switch backside 1080 double cork (run 2).
“In the other World Cups before, there was always something wrong,” he explained. “This time I just took all my past bad experiences and tried my best. I won’t sleep tonight. I gonna make this night a legendary one!”
OFFICIAL RESULTS
2012 LG Snowboard FIS World Cup
Quebec City, Canada – Feb. 25, 2012
Big Air
| Rank | Bib | Name | Year | Nation | Result | Points |
| 1 | 17 | TRUCHON Antoine | 1990 | CAN | 1000.00 | 1000.00 |
| 2 | 23 | PIIROINEN Petja | 1991 | FIN | 800.00 | 800.00 |
| 3 | 3 | KULISEK Matts | 1985 | CAN | 600.00 | 600.00 |
| 4 | 4 | KORPI Janne | 1986 | FIN | 500.00 | 500.00 |
| 5 | 25 | SOBOLEV Alexey | 1991 | RUS | 450.00 | 450.00 |
| 6 | 15 | UOTILA Ville | 1985 | FIN | 400.00 | 400.00 |
| 7 | 11 | HORAK Petr | 1991 | CZE | 360.00 | 360.00 |
| 8 | 8 | JONG, DE Dimi | 1994 | NED | 320.00 | 320.00 |
| 9 | 28 | JAMES Scott | 1994 | AUS | 290.00 | 290.00 |
| 10 | 21 | SCHATTSCHNEIDER Clemens | 1992 | AUT | 260.00 | 260.00 |