Canadian ski jumper Abigail Strate won gold at a Summer Grand Prix event Sunday for the first international victory of her career.

The Calgarian finished first on the large HS135 hill with 108.8 points. The result came a day after she took bronze.

"It is a little upgrade from yesterday," said the 24-year-old Strate. "I'm still kind of overwhelmed with everything going on. I've never heard the Canadian anthem played on the podium for myself, so I was balling my eyes out.

"It was really good today. I'm so happy."

Someone be so fr with me rn, is that a gold bib I see? <a href="https://t.co/5qsAk7UxAl">pic.twitter.com/5qsAk7UxAl</a> — @abi_strate

Germany's Selina Freitag took the silver medal with 108.3 points and Japan's Nozomi Maruyama picked up bronze with 105.5.

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