FREESTLYE SKIING: Australian teenager Matt Graham successfully defended his National Mogul Championship title at NSW's Perisher resort today with his second win in two days.

Skiing against 52 athletes in a strong field from seven countries, the 18-year-old Australian Institute of Sport / NSW Institute of Sport scholarship holder added to yesterday's win on day one of the Championships, part of the National Snowsport Championships, by securing top place in this morning's qualification and then continuing his impressive form into the final.

Winning yesterday and today guaranteed the overall victory for Graham, ahead of another AIS / NSWIS athlete Sam Hall, who finished sixth today and third yesterday, while Japan's Nobuyuki Nishi was third from points collected from a fifth today and fourth yesterday.

Yesterday Graham outpointed world number six Sho Endo from Japan and today he was too strong for fellow AIS / NSWIS skier Brodie Summers, who finished fourth overall, and Japan's Ikuma Horishima in third.

The women's Championship was won by Japanese skier Natsume Mizutani, with NSWIS athlete Taylah-Paige O'Neill in second overall and AIS / NSWIS scholarship holders Nicole Parks and Britt Cox in third and fourth respectively.

O'Neill, the winner on day one, finished fourth today and Cox improved on her fourth in the first event with a third place today. Parks was second today and fifth yesterday.

Graham said that his second National Championships win shows that his focus on various areas, with particular attention on putting down consistent runs, is providing him with pleasing progress.

"The conditions today were a little more forgiving and I was able to start off the day at a higher level," Graham said.

"I've been working on a bit of everything, my jumps a fair bit and my skiing as well. I have been concentrating on putting everything together that I have learned since March into every run.

"I've been on a strength and condition program with John Marsden (NSWIS strength and conditioning coach) for the past five years but this year it's been pretty intense.

"I feel stronger now than before and that has been helping me. I've been able to produce faster times."

However today's win was not just due to Graham's improvement with speed. He achieved the top score for turns and the second highest points with jumps.

Graham knows that the coming Northern Hemisphere winter, which will reach a crescendo with the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, will be the most important in his career so far.

With a world ranking inside the top 20, Graham is a likely starter in Sochi but he is the first to say that his intensity needs to be maintained.

His next event is the ABOM at Victoria's Mt Buller at the end of this month, an event he has won four times already, with the first occurring when he was just 14-years-old.