Olympic silver medalist Jaelin Kauf swept World Cup moguls and dual moguls wins in Utah while extending her podium streak to eight events in a row.
Kauf, a 28-year-old Wyoming native, won the Intermountain Health Freestyle International presented by Stifel at Deer Valley on Thursday (moguls) and Saturday (dual moguls).
On both nights, she relegated 2018 Olympic gold medalist Perrine Laffont of France to runner-up.
On Thursday, Kauf earned her first World Cup victory in the moguls event in six years. She did so in front of family and friends who carried large letter J signs and on the third anniversary of her Olympic medal-winning performance in China.
Kauf ranks second in this season’s World Cup moguls standings behind Laffont (in the notable absence of injured 2022 Olympic champion Jakara Anthony of Australia).
Kauf is ranked No. 1 in dual moguls, which makes its Olympic debut in 2026.
On Friday, American Quinn Dehlinger won the aerials event at Deer Valley after missing most of last season due to a knee injury that led to surgery.
Dehlinger, a 22-year-old from the Cincinnati area, landed “the Daddy” — a back full-double full-full — for 122.57 points, topping Dmytro Kotovskyi of Ukraine (115.49) and American Chris Lillis (104.43), who both performed the same trick.
Before last year’s injury, Dehlinger won silver at the 2023 World Championships as the youngest American man to ever make an individual Olympic or world championships aerials podium.
He’s the only American man to win an aerials World Cup in the last four years.
In 2022, he was the highest-ranked American man to not make the Olympic aerials team.
Deer Valley highlights air Sunday at 2 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock.
