Snowboard star Ekaterina Tudegesheva is confident of success at the world championships in January because the track suits her style, the former giant slalom world champion told R-Sport on Saturday.
Tundegesheva has twice won World Cup rounds at Stoneham in Quebec, which will host the championships.
“It’s crazy how much I want to get a good result at the world championships,” she said.
“It works out for me there. It doesn’t happen often that the track itself helps you to win. When you find rare places like that, it’s very nice.”
Stoneham saw Tudegesheva’s only World Cup win of an otherwise unimpressive season for the Russian in which she experimented with a longer board.
“All the experiments ended last season,” she said, adding that she was using her old equipment again.
“I understood that the board I returned to was ideal. It was created to my measurements, to my height and weight.”
“I moved over to a longer board and it turned out I couldn’t manage it physically. Because of that, the problems cropped up.”
The women’s World Cup season starts in December with the first slalom rounds taking place in Carezza, Italy, on December 21.
