Matt Graham skis his way to a silver

Central Coast skier Matt Graham has taken silver in the dual mogul World Cup, held in the USA on January 24-25.

In his first medal win of the season, Olympic medallist Graham, 30, has skied his way to the 26th World Cup podium of his impressive career, following his silver medal performance in the dual moguls.

The World Cup was held in Waterville Valley, the birthplace of freestyle skiing.

Graham showed great form throughout the day, making his way through the earlier rounds with ease before winning difficult match-ups against Frenchman Benjamin Cavet in the quarter finals 20-15, and an impressive semi-final victory over Ikuma Horishima of Japan 18-17.

In the big final Graham faced legendary Canadian Mikael Kingsbury.

In a close duel right to the finish line Kingsbury prevailed 21-14, extending his record for the most wins for a freestyle skier to 94.

Rounding out the podium in third place was Filip Gravenfors of Sweden who defeated Horishima for the bronze.

“It is nice to be on the podium for the first time this season,” Graham said.

“Duals is always a long challenging day, a lot of top-to-bottoms at crazy fast speeds.

“At the start of the day I was just happy to get through to the finals, and once they came around it was just full speed from there.

“I have felt like all of the pieces have been there but hadn’t stuck yet, making a few mistakes in the previous events.

“So it was nice to have some solid skiing, especially after battling the flu and being bedridden two days ago with chronic fevers.

“Still feeling under the weather yesterday, (the solver) was pretty rewarding.”

Also in action were Aussies Oliver Logan in 27th, Cooper Woods 30th, Edward Hill 32nd, George Murphy 35th and women Charlotte Wilson 18th, Lottie Lodge 31st, Lucy Pernice 34th and Emma Bosco 35th.

Next weekend the mogul skiers compete at the World Cup event in Val St. Come, Canada, with moguls on February 1 and dual moguls February 2.