British snowboard cross racer Zoe Gillings has finished sixth in the latest World Cup race, her best result of the season. She missed out on a place in the four-rider final but finished second in the small final at Bad Gastein in Austria. American Lindsey Jacobellis scored her first win of the season, beating Norway’s Helene Olafsen and Sandra Frei of Switzerland.

Manx snowboarder Zoe Gillings says she is full of confidence ahead of the next FIS World Cup round in Telluride, USA.

The British number one finished 10th in the opening round in Argentina, after being impeded in a crash with world number one Lindsey Jacobellis.

“I’m excited about racing again and hopefully I can podium in Telluride,” she told BBC Isle of Man.

Austria’s Stefan Gimpl completed his Snowboarding World Cup hat-trick with big air gold in Stockholm.

The 30-year old is undefeated in big air events since January’s World Championships in Gangwon, Korea and has started this season like a steamtrain with victories in London and Barcelona.

And Gimpl showed no signs that he would relinquish his record in Sweden where, after cruising through qualifying in fourth, he gave a statement of intent with his first run in the final, scoring 26 points.

Snowboarder Stefan Gimpl continued his superb start to the season with Big Air victory at the FIS World Cup in Barcelona.

The Austrian, who celebrated his 30th birthday with victory in London last weekend, finished with 52.3 points after scores of 26.8 and 25.5 in his first and third jumps.

Switzerland’s Gian-Luca Cavigelli qualified ahead of the Austrian for the final but, just as in London, he couldn’t outscore Gimpl when it mattered and had to settle for silver with 51.3.

Japan’s Kazuhiro Kokubo won the men’s halfpipe at the snowboard World Cup event in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, while Australian Torah Jane won the women’s event.

Kokubo produced a superb display run to score 46.1 in his first run, and though he crashed to a 7.3 in his second run his opening score was good enough to give him victory.

France’s Mathiue Crepel was second and Finland’s Peetu Piiroinen third.

The best snowboarders from 26 countries are currently in the Swiss glacier resort of Saas Fee for the latest stage of the LG Snowboard FIS World Cup.

The racers are enjoying great conditions with 40cm (15 inches) of fresh snow fallen on the glacier in the past 24 hours, setting the area up for the main events later this week.

Around 130 riders are competing in the World Cup this week, among them leading names including Sergio Berger and Iouri Podladtchikov from Switzerland, Janne Korpi (the 2008 winner in Saas-Fee) and Antti Autti from Finland, Mathieu Crepel (FRA), Torah Bright (AUS) and Kazuhiro Kokubo (JAP).

British halfpipe champion Ben Kilner has called for a raise in the profile of winter sports in Britain after crashing out of the FIS Snowboard World Cup Big Air event in Battersea.

The 21-year old just missed out on the final at Battersea Power Station after finishing ninth in his heat with the top five going through.

And although he admitted the event in South London was a step in the right direction, the Banchory snowboarder insisted there was too much media attention on London 2012 with February’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver only three months away.

A World Cup Big Air event, featuring top British and international skiers and snowboarders, is returning to Battersea Power Station on 31 October.

More than 10,000 fans flocked to the venue last year to see the industrial site transformed with a 32m high ski jump, packed with 500 tons of snow.

British Olympic hopefuls Ben Kilner and Dom Harington will compete alongside last year’s winner Peetu Piiroinen.