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TELLURIDE, Colo. -- Brady Leman won a silver medal Thursday at the Telluride Ski Resort, becoming the first Canadian to reach the World Cup ski cross podium this season. The 26-year-old Calgary skier finished just behind Filip Flisar of Slovenia. Armin Niederer of Switzerland won bronze in a three-way photo finish. "That final heat was as tough a heat as you can have these days in ski cross," Leman said on a conference call. "I just made a little mistake along the top flats while going for a pass and that was the difference. Luckily I had a good reach at the line to hold on to second. "It was a really good race, I had a lot of fun today. Im pretty happy with how it went. I felt like I probably could have won today but second is not so bad." Canadian head coach Eric Archer was impressed with Lemans performance. "Brady was on it all day," Archer said. "It was a great fight to get the photo for second." Dave Duncan of London, Ont., was ninth and Ian Deans of Kelowna, B.C., was 14th. Archer said Duncan was disqualified after officials ruled he missed a gate. He added that Deans suffered a knee injury and will be re-evaluated when he returns to Canada. Canadas Kelsey Serwa reached the womens final but settled for fourth place. Switzerlands Fanny Smith won gold, Ophelie David of France took silver and Swedens Anna Holmlund picked up the bronze. Serwa, from Kelowna, B.C., is rounding back into form after suffering a season-ending knee injury last January. "Im not focused on results right now," Serwa said. "Im just focused on building confidence. Today was a big step for me -- just getting into the finals. I was stoked. "I tried to make a pass on the last turn ... at the bottom and just kind of got pinched out a bit." Marielle Thompson of Whistler, B.C., was eighth. Canada was shut out of the medals at the World Cup opener in Nakiska, Alta., last weekend. Leman, who was second in the overall World Cup rankings last season, said he really liked the layout of the course and felt it was a good challenge. "I felt like I was skiing well and I was skiing fast," Leman said. "Its where I want to be every race is in the final and fighting for gold and just making sure Im on that podium week after week, or trying to be anyway." Val Thorens, France will host the next stop on the ski cross World Cup circuit next week. "Today was good to build the confidence and take home some hardware," Leman said. "I had a lot of tough heats today and a lot of tough guys, especially the final. "So to know that I can kind of hang with anyone right now and I feel like I could be beating everyone, Ill take a lot of confidence from that." World mens champion Chris Del Bosco of Montreal did not compete. He is sidelined for a few weeks following shoulder surgery. He was injured while training at Nakiska last month. Redskins Griffin III Jersey . Leo Santa Cruz also defended his IBF bantamweight title, stopping Victor Zaleta in the ninth round of a brutal fight on a thoroughly entertaining card at Staples Center. Alfredo Angulo stopped Raul Casarez with a single left hook 56 seconds into the first round, making a dramatic return to the ring after a year away. Griffin III Jersey . - Few people thought the Vancouver Whitecaps had a chance of pulling off an upset. http://www.dancewithmeusa.com/new.html . The Padres designated the 37-year-old Suppan for assignment on Friday. Suppan was 2-3 with a 5.BANGKOK, Thailand -- Gilles Simon upset top-seeded Janko Tipsarevic 6-4, 6-4 Saturday to set up an all-French final against Richard Gasquet at the Thailand Open. Gasquet rallied from a set and two breaks down to beat Jarkko Nieminen 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 after the Finn failed to serve out the match when leading 5-4 in the second set. The fourth-seeded Simon won the title here in 2009 and improved his head-to-head record against Tipsarevic to 5-1. He broke the Serb in his first service game and then saved a break point in the 10th game before clinching the set when Tipsarevic netted a forehand. The Frenchman then broke for a 5-4 lead in the second after winning a Hawk-Eye challenge on his fourth break point, as the replay system showed his forehand winner clipped thhe line.dddddddddddd "I think I couldnt do any better than that," Simon said. "Janko has been playing amazing tennis since last year. Its difficult to beat him." Gasquet made a slew of errors to fall behind 4-0 in the second set against Nieminen before starting his fightback. When serving for the match, the Finn hit two straight double faults and a forehand error then allowed Gasquet to level the set at 5-5. The Frenchman dominated after that, breaking twice more in the decider and clinching the win when Nieminens backhand sailed wide. "At 3-6, 0-4 I thought I was losing," Gasquet said. "I thought he was better than me. I was hitting bad. Not in a good shape. But its tennis, sometimes it can change." ' ' '