Kevin Rolland won the opening men's halfpipe event in Copper Mountain ©Getty Images

France will be looking for more success when the International Ski Federation (FIS) Freestyle Skiing Halfpipe World Cup season continues in Mammoth Mountain in the United States tomorrow.

The Californian resort will host the second leg of the campaign after another US venue - Copper Mountain - staged the season's curtain-raiser.

French skiers claimed both the men's and women's titles in the finals of the first event, which took place on December 17.

Olympic halfpipe bronze medallist Kevin Rolland, the 2009 world champion, took the men's honours after beating his compatriot Benoit Valentin into second place.

Rolland, the defending halfpipe World Cup champion, was also in front of home skier Aaron Blunck who was third in Copper Mountain. 

Marie Martinod won the women's halfpipe title at the opening World Cup stop of the season ©Getty Images
Marie Martinod won the women's halfpipe title at the opening World Cup stop of the season ©Getty Images

In the women's competition, France's Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic silver medallist Marie Martinod won the season's opening event.

Two Americans followed behind her in Annalisa Drew and Devin Logan.

Martinod also won the women's ski superpipe title at the Winter X Games in Aspen in Colorado this month. 

The Mammoth Mountain event is the second of a four-leg season with action beginning with men's and women's qualifying tomorrow.

Finals will then be held on Friday (February 3).

The resort will also hold FIS Snowboard Slopestyle World Cup action from tomorrow, with qualification again beginning the men's and women's events.

The finals will also take place on Friday, with snowboard halfpipe competition beginning on Thursday (February 2).