Canada's Caroline Calvé races during qualifying in the women's parallel giant slalom at the world championships on Jan. 25. (Jacques Boissinot/Canadian Press)
Caroline Calvé of Canada and Stanislav Detkov of Russia won parallel slalom races on Saturday in Moscow for their first snowboard World Cup victories of the season.
On a huge ramp in downtown Moscow, Detkov edged Nevin Galmarini of Italy in the men's final while Calvé beat Aleksandra Krol of Poland for the women's title.
Roland Fischnaller edged Justin Reiter of the United States for third and claimed the overall discipline title with 2,200 points. Zan Kosir of Slovenia had 1,617 points for second, while Aaron March of Italy finished third with 1,500. This was the last parallel slalom events of the season.
Ekaterina Tudegesheva of Russia finish third in the women's event, while a quarterfinal appearance was enough for Patrizia Kummer of Switzerland to claim the discipline title with 1,690 points. Amelie Kober of Germany was 90 points behind for second, while Calvé had 1,390 for third.
