The 20-year-old put on a brilliant performance at the FIS World Cup Slopestyle in Ushuaia, Argentina, to finish ahead of Sweden's Henrik Harlaut.

The qualifying period lasts for the next 18 months but Woods has already put down an impressve marker in a sport that many predict will be a major hit at Sochi 2014.

Slopestyle is where riders head down a course which has rails and jumps and they are judged on the difficulty of tricks they execute.

Woods learned his freestyle skills at Sheffield Ski Village dry slope, having started there at the age of only four, and made history last year when he won Britain's first slopestyle skiing medal at a major championships after taking bronze at the Euro Winter X Games.

His performance came less than a month before the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to include the discipline as part of the programme in Sochi. 

The women's event was by America's Keri Herman.

Contact the writer of this story at [email protected]


Related stories
April 2011: Giant leap for women's ski jumping