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Xuetong Cai and Janne Korpi crowned 2012 Halfpipe World Cup Champions / Cai and Johnstone clinch season's last halfpipe contest

Xuetong Cai and Janne Korpi crowned 2012 Halfpipe World Cup Champions / Cai and Johnstone clinch season's last halfpipe contest

STONEHAM, Quebec, Canada (FEB 23) – Xuetong Cai (CHN) and Janne Korpi (FIN) are the 2012 Halfpipe World Cup Title winners.

The 18-years-old Chinese rider secured her career's third consecutive Crystal Globe by claiming victory in the last halfpipe contest of the 2012 LG Snowboard FIS World Cup season. Cai relegated her team mate Shuang Li (CHN) and Haruna Matsumoto (JPN) to the second and third rank respectively.

On the men's side, Janne Korpi celebrated his first ever World Cup title due to a third rank behind of reigning World Champion Nathan Johnstone (AUS) and Taku Hiraoka (JPN).

The LG Snowboard FIS World Cup continues with the season's last big air event in Quebec City, Canada, on FEB 25. The qualifiers will take place tomorrow night already.

Key facts
Season's second win for Cai, her career's sixth
Second podium ever for Li, third for Matsumoto
Third World Cup win for Johnstone
Winning run Nathan Johnstone: frontside 900 mute, backside 900 melon, frontside 1080 mute, cab 720 taipan
Run Taku Hiraoka: frontside 900 indy, backside 900 melon, frontside 1080 tail, cab 1080 mute
Run Janne Korpi: frontside 1080 tail, cab 1080 nose, backside rodeo alley-oop nose, backside 540 mute
Winning run Xuetong Cai: frontside 540 melon, backside 540 mute, frontside 720 indy, cab 360 tail, frontside Air
Run Shuang Li: frontside air, backside 540 mute, frontside 720 indy, cab 720 nose, frontside 540 melon, backside tail
Run Haruna Matsumoto: frontside air, backside 540, frontside 720 indy, cab 720, frontside 540 melon

Quotes
Xuetong Cai (CHN): I'm very happy about my win and my third World Cup title.

Nathan Johnstone (AUS): It was really fun out there. I'm glad the weather held up a bit better today. The pipe was really good. It allowed some good riding.

I'm pumped to get that first run landed. I was hoping to build on that in the second run but kind of stumbled on that flat 900 and ran out of pipe but it's all good. I'm still happy!

Janne Korpi (FIN): I'm happy about my third place but kind of disappointed from my run. I didn't do what I was supposed to do.

I wanted to do some better tricks. But I didn't land my first run and thus had to do some sort of safety run.

I'm happy about my first title. I want to see how the Crystal Globe looks like. I heard it is pretty cool. I will place it somewhere in my house, so I guess I have to think about getting a fire place.