MOSCOW, March 11. /TASS/. Russian freestyle skiers Maxim Burov, Lyubov Nikitina and Pavel Krotov won gold on Thursday at the 2021 FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships in team mixed aerials competition.

The trio of Russian athletes scored an aggregate result of 300.94 points. Switzerland’s trio of Carol Bouvard, Pirmin Werner and Noe Roth won the silver with 293.46 points and the US team of Ashley Caldwell, Eric Loughran and Christopher Lillis took the bronze with the result of 283.97 points.

On Wednesday, 22-year-old Nikitina won bronze in women’s aerials event. At the previous World Championship in 2019, Nikitina won the silver in women’s aerials and bronze in team mixed aerials.

Burov is the two-time world champion in men’s aerials (2019, 2021). The 22-year-old freestyle skier is also the bronze medal winner of the 2019 World Championship in team mixed aerials and the winner of the gold and bronze medals of the 2019 FISU Winter Universiade in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk.

Today’s gold was the second career medal of the World Championships for 28-year-old Krotov. On Wednesday, he took the bronze in men’s aerials competition.

The 2021 FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championship is hosted by a number of countries, namely by Sweden’s Idre, Slovenia’s Rogla, Kazakhstan’s Almaty and Aspen of the United States.

After the ski and snowboard cross competitions in Idre last month, Rogla hosted the parallel and giant slalom snowboard competitions on March 1-2. Almaty is holding moguls and aerials events on March 8-11 and Aspen is set to organize slopestyle, halfpipe and big air events of both Snowboard and FreeSki on March 10-16.

Russian athletes are competing at the 2021 FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships under the flag of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) and the official name of the team is the Russian Ski Federation (RSF).

In line with sanctions of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) against Russian sports, national athletes from Russia were banned from participating in the Olympic Games and World Championships under the national flag and to the tune of the Russian anthem until December 16, 2022.