Luca Harrington sixth in Big Air Olympic final
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A tight finish in difficult conditions has seend Wānaka freeskier Luca Harrington miss out on a medal in the Freeski Big Air final at the Winter Olympics.
Harrington finished sixth, with Tormod Frostad of Norway winning the gold medal after the competition was delayed because of falling snow which had postponed a number of events earlier in the day.
Harrington dropped eighth and shot to the lead with his first jump which was a high difficulty switch rightside triple cork 1980 which scored 94.00.
However by the end of the first run he was overtaken into fourth place with Norwegian Frostad leading on 95.25.
The 21-year-old fell to fifth after scoring just 25.75 on his second run when he failed to stick his landing from a left side triple cork 1980, while Frostad continuing to lead the way.
Harrington, the 2025 world champion, repeated the same trick on his third run and improved, his score of 66.50 but it wasn't enough to make an impression on the leaders.
Frostad finished on top with a combined score of 195.5 to claim the gold medal, with American Mac Forehand taking silver and Matej Svancer of Austria taking bronze.
Harrington's total was 160.50.
