Fri, 02/19/2010 - 11:46amTorah Bright wins women's halfpipe final at Winter Olympics

Australian Torah Bright made an amazing comeback in her second run of the halfpipe finals last night to take Gold

Having fallen on her first run and only scraping together 5.1 for her efforts, Torah knew that all her hopes rested on run two.

And despite a turbulent season where Bright sustained two concussions and had to pull out of the Winter X-Games – and contrary to double-cork speculation – she laid down a flawless and solid run (back 3, switch back 7, back 5 and switch front 7) garnering a score of 45.0. More than enough to take the Gold medal.

Two Americans hotly tipped for the podium took Silver and Bronze. Hannah Teter (Gold medalist at 2006's Turin Olympics) took bronze with a score of 39.2. Her massive opening straight air stalefish just saw her scrape a bit of speed before dropping a switch front 7 and front 7. And it couldn't have gone to a nicer person – Teter has been offering her competition winnings to charity this season.

Kelly Clark (Gold medalist at 2002's Salt Lake City Olympics) took the Bronze medal with a front 7 to switch front 7 to massive front 9. She accumalated 42.2

Gretchen Bleiler (Silver medalist at 2006's Turin Olympics and Winter X-Games winner last month) wasn't able to land all her tricks and didn't feature on the podium.

Britain was represented by Lesley McKenna for the third time – Lesley came 17th at Salt Lake City and 33rd in Turin. But things weren't to be for the 35-year-old Scot who crashed on the first hit of both her runs. Frustratingly Lesley had been riding really well on the lead up to this year's Games, and free of any serious injury (in 2006 she broke her ankle in the lead up to the Games).

There was a lot of talk amongst the experienced riders of the upcoming surge of talent from China, but despite some solid performances that included 17-year-old Liu Jiayu's first run score of 39.3, they weren't able to make the podium this year.

Watch the winning runs on the BBC website.