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In the final, Wyatt [pictured] threw a no-handed flip over the gap to grab gold. Deegan broke his femur and both wrists, but returned later in the year to land the first the FMX in competition. His earliest attempts paved the way for FMX s.

Grete Eliassen won gold and earned the title of Female Innovator of the Games. Eliassen returned to win gold again in Though she'd long been a major force to be reckoned with, routinely edging out much younger competitors with her technical finesse, Janna Meyen made X Games history in by becoming the first winter athlete ever to four-peat, grabbing gold in Women's Slopestyle. Shaun White became the second to four-peat, also in and also in Slopestyle. Bleiler threw a frontside and a pair of tough variations to top Torah Bright's super-tech switch backside Indy.

Kelly Clark became the first woman to attempt a in a SuperPipe contest, nabbing bronze. In , Tanner became the only person to three-peat in two Winter X disciplines, adding three straight Ski SuperPipe wins to his Slopestyle victories. It was a breakthrough performance that set the stage for Brown's career. The grab's one of the oldest in the book and has served as a barometer of true style for decades.

Colten, who did an Indian Air, received a score of zero. At age 15, he became the youngest winter athlete to medal at an X Games event. He earned a silver in Aspen in , and then, the following year, cemented his place in history with a gold medal in Tignes in Burke died just a week before X Games from injuries sustained in a crash in the halfpipe.

This is where she was happiest. Kaya Turski became the first skier to three-peat in Women's Ski Slopestyle, with three-in-a-row golds in Aspen and three golds in Tignes In spring , Turski became the first female skier to land a switch in a slope contest. X Games Aspen not only saw the first triple corks thrown in competition, in Big Air finals two snowboarders Sandbech and Smits landed the trick for the first time, and Torstein Horgmo and Mark McMorris landed two brand new triple variations.

Henrik Harlaut won gold with a perfect-scoring nose butter triple cork Learn more. X Games Aspen Schedule Announcement. X Games Aspen Returns Jan. X Games Aspen Is Back! She finally got her first gold at X Games Aspen , then retired from competition after X Games Aspen to pivot to backcountry splitboarding and big mountain riding with the Jones Snowboards team.

She didn't waste any time making the transition: she starred in the film "Ode to Muir" riding California's Sierra Range with Jeremy Jones and in the all-female "Vision Nowhere," documenting a Japanese powder mission.

She's also a star of Jamie Anderson's film"Unconditional. With 2 gold, 2 silver in Slopestyle and 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze in Big Air, his 9 total medals put him at 9 on the Most Snowboard Medals List, while his 3 gold medals put him at 15 on the Most Snowboard Gold list. The most beloved rider in snowboarding at the turn of the 21st century, he later came to regret and apologize for his status as "snowboarding's first super-pro" and has become a critic of X Games and the rest of the snowboarding and action sports industry over the years, which actually makes us love him even more.

It's good to have some icons keeping us honest. A known jewelry lover, Silje doesn't own any meager silver or bronze medals; only the best will do. She's been pushing progression with new tricks like her Cab , and most recently topped the podium in Big Air at X Games Norway in front of a home crowd. She retired from competition in The first woman to land a triple, with her Cab triple underflip in November , Anna Gasser has been at the forefront of women's progression and now owns 2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze in Big Air and 1 Slopestyle gold from X Games Norway The whole world's been taking notice: she won TransWorld Snowboarding's Rider of the Year and Reader's Choice titles in both and She missed some competitions due to injury in and has yet to bring the triple to competition, but we'll almost certainly see it in Aspen in January: she was back on top of the Big Air podium at X Games Norway in August and has been lighting up Instagram with big tricks in the prelude to the winter season.

Norwegian rider Torstein Horgmo won Big Air gold as a rookie at X Games Aspen with a corked backside and went on to become one of the single biggest influencers in Big Air, with 3 gold, 2 silver to show for it. He was the first rider to land a triple cork spin, from a jump in Folgefonna, Norway, and the first to bring a triple of any kind to X Games, with a triple backflip in his gold medal Big Air run at X Games Aspen He last competed at X Games in , but the Shredbots video empire he co-founded with Mark McMorris and Eero Ettala continues to drive progression in snowboarding on every front.

Frank Bourgeois and his filmers, brothers William and Charles Demers, have won the three most recent X Games Real Snow video competitions, between , and took silver in they also won the Fan Favorite vote in each of those four years. Three gold gives Frank the incredible distinction of being the only rider on the Top 20 Most Snowboard Gold list who has never actually competed on-site at an X Games event.

The Real Snow series began in , acknowledging that some of the wildest stuff in snowboarding happens outside of the traditional competition scene, and he's the wildest of the wild.

Janna Mayen-Weatherby won 4 consecutive Slopestyle gold medals between , making her the first winter athlete to four-peat at X Games, and she is frequently cited as the most influential rider from the first generation of Women's Slopestyle competitors.

She was one of the first women bringing s and s to competition, known for her Cab years before other women were spinning them, and with 4 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze, she's in the top 20 for both Most Snowboard Gold at 10 and Most Snowboard Medals at Her competitive snowboarding career spanned 22 years -- she won her first Burton U. Open halfpipe title as a 13 year-old amateur before her retirement in Between she won 3 gold, 2 silver in Big Air still a record for most gold in Women's Snowboard Big Air as well as 1 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze in Slopestyle and 1 silver in SuperPipe.

Still an active pro rider, Gnu Snowboards just released her B-Pro signature snowboard, the 23rd iteration of the longest-running women's pro model in the history of snowboarding, dating back to her "Flying Pig" board from All-around ripper Tara Dakides did it all at X Games, inspiring a generation of women's snowboarders in every discipline as she competed in Big Air 2 gold, 1 silver , Slopestyle 3 gold, 1 silver , SuperPipe, and even Snowboarder X racing in a decade-spanning run between X Games Crested Butte and X Games Aspen Her groundbreaking parts in films like"," "Viva Sessions," "Empress" and "Technical Difficulties" and the documentary "Against The Grain" established her as one of snowboarding's all-time greats.

The future is in good hands. He won 5 of those gold medals in an incredible Snowboarder X streak between and Keep an eye out for the next generation of the Holland racing dynasty: his daughter Lux turns 4 in November and is already learning to rip. Teen queen Chloe Kim, still just 19 years old, already owns 5 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze, from 7 X Games SuperPipe starts, a podium-perfection streak record among all X Games snowboarders.

In October she announced she's taking the season off from competition to focus on her studies as a freshman at Princeton: if she were to compete in Aspen in January she could tie Shaun White and Nyjah Huston for most X Games gold earned as a teenager, before she turns 20 in April. Everyone is eager to see her become the first woman to land a double cork in competition: she has landed several in practice sessions.

Jamie Anderson is yin and yang personified, known for literal tree-hugging and yoga vibes and also as one of the fiercest competitors X Games has ever seen. She has scars to show for it: she's been taking big risks and heavy slams in the effort to push women's progression and stay ahead of younger riders, and she smashed her face up attempting a frontside at X Games Aspen With 16 X Games medals -- 5 gold, 7 silver, 2 bronze in Slopestyle, and 2 bronze in Big Air -- she owns the most Snowboard medals 16 of any woman in X Games history and sits at 3 for most medals among all snowboarders, behind Shaun White 18 and Mark McMorris Don't miss her backcountry film, "Unconditional.

In one of the greatest comeback stories of all time, Max Parrot returned to the top of the Big Air podium at X Games Norway just two months after completing an aggressive six-month chemotherapy treatment plan for the Hodgkin lymphoma cancer he was diagnosed with in December He already had a reputation as the hardest-working guy in the game before all that, and now owns the most Snowboard Big Air gold 5 and most Snowboard Big Air medals 8.

One more win and he could crack the top-5 for most gold of all X Games snowboarders.



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