Tess Coady, Laura Peel and Jackie Narracott all triumphant on eve of the Beijing Winter Olympics

Victoria’s slopestyle star Tess Coady has hit form at just the right time, winning the Laax World Cup event on the weekend just ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

Jackie Narracott breaks the track record and takes World Cup gold in the skeleton.

Victoria’s slopestyle star Tess Coady has hit form at just the right time, winning the Laax World Cup event on the weekend with a high flying new series of manoeuvres. And her success has brought about a golden Aussie trifecta.

In what has been a hat trick of triumph for the female members of the Olympic team, Coady joined the winner’s circle occupied in recent days by fellow Australians Jackie Narracott winning her first World Cup skeleton event in St Moritz and Laura Peel continuing her success in the last aerials competition before the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.

Coady had laid down the highest score in the first Slopestyle run at Laax, a picturesque resort in the Swiss mountains, and was assured of victory, but instead of coasting down the second run for a victory procession, the Melburnian pulled out her highest scoring effort to date.

Judges were hugely impressed with Coady’s relaxed riding style and high difficulty tricks: a switch backside 900 followed by the front side double cork 1080 and gave her 86.18 points.

For Coady, this second win of her career comes just days ahead of competing in her first X Games, her last competition before Beijing, which opens on February 4.

Four years ago Coady was just 15, the youngest member of the PyeongChang Winter Olympic team, and during the warm-up for her event ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament.

She told The Australian on Sunday that being away from the snow for nearly 11 months recovering from that injury, and finishing her schooling, made her fiercely determined to become a professional snow sport athlete. Now after a few years getter stronger and working with coach Stan Wu, Coady is undaunted at the intensity of the next few weeks.

Coady, 21, said from Munich: “I knew that people were going to be throwing down for sure (in Laax), so I knew I needed to try it (the frontside double cork 10) and sort of prove to myself that I could do it so, I had to have a crack.’’

Fellow Australian Laura Peel was keeping a close eye on Coady’s performance – the Australian team has become particularly close knit supporting each other during Covid. But it was Coady who said Peel’s landing of triple twisting triple somersault tricks was super-impressive.

Peel, 32, notched a high scoring 118.05 points at the recent Deer Valley world cup event and was so dominant, she beat China’s Kong Fanyu by nearly 35 points.

Danielle Scott was fourth after also attempting a triple in competition.

“Obviously a great day today, I feel like I have been working for a long time to put down a jump like this” said Peel.

“To do it right ahead of the Olympic Games is amazing.

“I’ve been putting the work on the triple for a few seasons now, and I’m always very grateful for the experience I have when things get tough.”

Jackie Narracott wins her first World Cup skeleton event in St Moritz. Picture: Instagram

Narracott’s stunning win in skeleton at the St Moritz world cup was a surprise, including to herself.

Narracott’s previous highest placing was finishing seventh six years ago.

“I knew today I had the potential to go fast but didn’t think quite that fast” she said.

“This has been going for so long, I’m just like there are no words, it’s a perfect day in a perfect place.”

The 31-year-old Queenslander said she hoped the win would help attract more Australian women into the sport, attract more funding to be able to have a coach and be more consistent in results.

“We are proving this year that we have the athletes, it’s just having the foundations behind us to give us a chance,” she said.