P – Brittney Cox has won Australia’s first-ever women’s World Cup moguls medal after placing third at Deer Valley in Salt Lake City.

Mount Buller skier Cox, who represented Australia at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games as a 15-year-old, produced a series of brilliant runs to finish with the bronze medal.

US skier Hannah Kearney won her 13th straight moguls World Cup event, edging out US team-mate Heather McPhie after starting the super-finals format in second place.

Cox, an AIS/NSWIS scholarship holder, is having the best season of her short career and is ranked 14th in the world after the Deer Valley result.

Cox (22.84) said she felt “absolutely amazing.”

Kearney had just enough to win, scoring 25.21 points on her third run of the day to edge out McPhie (24.77).

“The pressure was on,” Kearney said.

“It was a sort of nerves I haven’t felt in a while, but in an absolutely positive way. I’m glad I was able to take the nerves and perform well and not take them and buckle under the pressure.”

Kearney’s only loss at a venue since January 2011 came on the same Champion run at Deer Valley when she missed a grab at the world championships last February and had to settle for silver by four-hundredths of a second to Canada’s Jenn Heil.

In the men’s event, undefeated 19-year-old Canadian Mikael Kingsbury claimed gold to tie the World Cup moguls record of six consecutive wins set by American Jeremy Bloom in 2005.

Kingsbury edged out countryman Alexandre Bilodeau, the reigning Olympic champion, and Norway’s Vinjar Slatten took bronze.