Canberra’s two-time world champion Laura Peel has produced the highest-scoring jump of the season to win gold at the World Cup aerial skiing event in Le Relais, Canada.

Peel was the only competitor to land triple back somersaults, scoring a huge 109.15 points with her lay-full-full jump to record the eighth World Cup victory of her career.

Second went to American Ashley Caldwell who scored 93.06 points, while Ukrainian Anastasiya Novosad was third (90.59).

Australian Danielle Scott just missed out on a podium place, finishing fourth after setting the pace in qualifying and the first round of the finals.

“I am so happy and honestly a bit relieved,” said Peel, the 33-year-old from Canberra.

“It was a really tough start to the season, I wasn’t jumping how I wanted to in the competition, but I had been training well, and today I was able to do my training jumps in the competition.

“The plan doesn’t really change – keep working hard and doing my jumps, building my degree of difficulty, and I just want to keep executing jumps like that every day.”

Peel has moved up from fifth to second in the overall standings after three events, behind Canadian pacesetter Marion Thenault.

The aerial skiers will next be in action on February 3 at a World Cup meet in Deer Valley, where Alisa Camplin famously won Olympic gold for Australia at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.