Britt Cox and Matt Graham are the first couple of moguls

Britt Cox and Matt Graham created history together when they became the first Australian man and woman to win matching World Cup moguls events.

Australian mogul skiers Britt Cox, Brodie Summers and Matt Graham at Rosa Khutor Mountain Village Cluster in Sochi, Russia.

Britt Cox and Matt Graham have been skiing together since they were children and yesterday they created history together, becoming the first Australian man and woman to win matching World Cup moguls events.

After Cox won her first World Cup event in Finland last month, she said her next wish was to share the top rank of the podium with her snow brother.

That dream came true in Calgary yesterday, 14 years after they first met on the Australian ski slopes as eight-year-olds.

“It feels unreal to share the top sport on the podium with Matt,’’ Cox said.

Cox said last month she was continually inspired to improve by Graham’s skiing prowess. “I have always tried to look at his skiing and learn from him ­because he’s a phenomenal skier and he has a great work ethic,’’ she said.

On a tough windy and steep course in Calgary, both showed the technical mastery that famed Australian head coach Steve ­Desovich drums into his ­athletes.

Cox, 22, has established herself as the dominant female moguls skier on the world tour this year after winning three of the first four World Cup events of the ­season. After finishing off the ­podium in Quebec a week ago, she came roaring back in Calgary, setting the standard through both the semi-final and the final to claim victory.

She put together a flawless run to score 82.11 points, more than two points clear of reigning Olympic champion Justine ­Dufour-Lapointe (80.02), who finished second in front of her home crowd.

“Each time I win, it’s more and more motivating,’’ Cox said. “The course in Calgary is very technical because the pitch changes midway and becomes steeper.

“In previous years, I’ve found the course to be challenging but now I can ­attack it more ­aggressively.’’

Graham, also 22, was similarly aggressive in the medal round, setting the fastest time of the final as he executed a superb run, highlighted by a huge 1080 off-axis spin off the lower jump.

He scored 85.34 points to snatch the win from Canada’s reigning World Cup champion Mikael Kingsbury (83.90) for just the second time in his career.

Graham said it was so windy at the top of the course that he could not hear Kingsbury’s score when it was announced and said he concluded that he would need to put “a smoking run ­together’’ to win.

“I was able to do that, and to see my score come up with the number one, after my teammate Britt just won for the ladies, that was pretty awesome,” he said.

“And it’s nice to knock Mik off that top step every now and then, prove that he’s human. He’s a good mate of mine and we push each other a lot.”

There is excellent depth developing in Australia’s moguls ranks, with four women ranked in the top 14 in Calgary. Madi Himbury finished 10th, and teenagers Jakara Anthony and Krystle Yin were 11th and 14th respectively.

The moguls double capped an exceptional weekend in the world’s snowfields for Australian athletes.

World snowboard champion Scotty James began the run on Friday night when he became the first Australian man to claim the X Games half-pipe title, winning from a field that included the last two Olympic champions, Shaun White and Iouri Podladtchikov.

Veteran freestyle skier Russ Henshaw also returned to the World Cup podium in the slopestyle event at Seiser Alm in Italy.

Henshaw had almost a year out of the sport with various injuries before returning this month and was happy to bounce back to his former standard.

American teenager Colby Stevenson won the event (89.20), from Swiss skier Colin Wili (86.60) and Henshaw (83.40).