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Jacqui Cooper, who signed with Dalbello in September 2007, has won her second consecutive World Cup in China

Jacqui Cooper, who signed with Dalbello in September 2007, has won her second consecutive World Cup in China, posting a 200-plus score to claim the 21st victory of her career. Cooper landed both of her triple somersaults in Lianhua Mountain for a total of 204.28 points, defeating her nearest rival, reigning world champion Nina Li, by more than eight points.

"I'm very excited about the win. It's been a tough week," Cooper said."We arrived from Europe on Monday and had five days of jumping trials . During the competition the weather conditions changed all day - it went from a very slick in-run to almost spring-like, sloshy conditions in the afternoon and I ran out of in-run and couldn't get any more speed on my last jump. So I had to settle for doing a lay-full-full in a very broken-form position, but there was nothing I could do - there was no more speed and as long as I landed I knew that I could win."

"So to land two jumps in very different conditions from the morning to the afternoon was great and I think that shows the depth of experience I have when it comes to competition days like today and the pressure of jumping two days in a row with only limited training - I've only done maybe five or six days of triples."

"So I'm patting myself on the back and I'm pretty proud. To sit in first place at Christmas time is great, and competing in front of a pretty tough home crowd like China, it was really good to perform well here."

  "To come away from this event ranked number one is a great result."
Cooper  leads the World Cup standings after the second event of the season, on 200 points.