Chris Lillis honored Jeret “Speedy” Peterson in aerials at the world freestyle skiing championships as part of a double silver medal day for the U.S.
Earlier Wednesday, Ashley Caldwell also took silver, becoming the most decorated U.S. woman in her discipline at the biennial worlds.
Lillis became the first American since Peterson to perform a quintuple twisting triple backflip in competition — a back double full-full-double full for second place at worlds in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
“Out of all events this was exactly what we were targeting all year,” Lillis said, according to U.