CALGARY - Jenn Heil won her second straight ladies' moguls World Cup event in Calgary, Saturday evening. Then, one day after Vincent Marquis took silver in the men's event, teammate Alexandre Bilodeau picked up one of his own. 

Due to a first-place finish in the qualifying round earlier Saturday, 26-year-old Heil was the last skier down the hill during the finals. A score of 24.94 proved good enough to earn Heil the 22nd World Cup win of her career.

After her race, Heil hugged her mother and childhood friends who had travelled from her hometown of Spruce Grove, Alta. to watch the race at Calgary's Canada Olympic Park, were Heil trained as a teenager.

"It's my first weekend of races here at home and I have such a good vibe," Heil said. "It's pretty amazing to look back and think...of how long it's been."

Although Heil has already qualified for the Vancouver Games and now leads this season's World Cup standings, she said she can still ski faster.

"I'm on the path I want. We're in the countdown so I'm just really focused. And I know there's still more I can do."

Behind Heil, Aiko Uemura of Japan rebounded from Friday's 14th-place finish to score a silver 24.03 on Saturday. The Czech Republic's Nikola Sudova, who finished second in Friday's race followed with 23.90 points to take bronze. 

As the final competitor in the finals, Heil had the chance to watch her competitors ski first - and hear their scores. Some athletes would be intimidated, but not Heil, the reigning Olympic champion.

"I could hear the results on top and I knew I had to put it all on the table," she said. "That's the thing about this sport. You have to put it on the table and that's what's fun about it too."

Four other Canadian women also qualified for Saturday's final. Audrey Robichaud was Canada's only other skier to make the top-10, earning 22 points to finish eighth, while Maxime Dufour-Lapointe just missed with an 11th-place result. Sylvia Kerfoot and Chloe Dufour-Lapointe finished 14th and 15th, respectively.

In the men's event, freestyle ski fans got a glimpse of a highly anticipated showdown when Australia's Dale Begg-Smith edged out Canada's Bilodeau in World Cup competition in Calgary.

The Canadian-born Begg-Smith, who is defending Olympic champion, scored 25.25 points to edge out Bilodeau's score of 24.70.

Bilodeau, of Rosemere, Que., charged back from a disappointing 16th-place finish at another World Cup event on Friday night. He said the steep course at Canada Olympic Course forced him to hold back a little.

"When I'm comfortable, I'm just 110 per cent out, and you can't do it on this type of course or else it's a gamble. And Dale did it. He gambled really well. He skied super fast."

Bilodeau topped last year's World Cup overal standings, although Begg-Smith, who held the title for three consecutive years following the 2006 Olympics, was forced out half-way through the season with a knee injury.

"Now we have a great rivalry," said Bilodeau's coach, Dominick Gauthier. "I saw Dale watch Alex's run at the top of the course...And [Dale's run] is going to push Alex to gun it even more."

Begg-Smith, who also took gold on Friday night and now lead's the World Cup standings, said the field is so strong that any number of skiers could challenge for the gold in Vancouver -- and anyone who thinks this is a showdown between him and Bilodeau is "narrow-minded."

"It's a pretty open event and it's exciting," he said.

Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau of Drummondville, Que., one of three other Canadians to qualify for the men's finals, said he was happy wiht his 10th-place finish. He had injured his knee before Friday's event.

"The knee fees good. There's a couple days coming up for me to heal so I think it's behind me," he said.

Maxime Gringras and Warren Tanner finished eighth and 12th, respectively.

- With files from CTVOlympics.ca