Japan's Kokomo Murase won gold in the opening round of the snowboarding slopestyle World Cup thanks to her top qualifying score after the final was called off Monday due to bad weather.Murase earned 78.10 points in qualifying on Saturday to finish ahead of Britain's Mia Brookes and Rebecca Flynn of the United States in Cardrona on New Zealand's South Island.The victory was the 19-year-old Murase's fourth in World Cup slopestyle and seventh overall, including big air competition.Japan's Reira Iwabuchi finished fourth in Cardrona and Mari Fukada seventh.In men's slopestyle, Japan's Kira Kimur…READ FULL ARTICLE