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A year later, White returned to claim the gold medal over Gagnon. On his first run of the night, he claimed the high score in Men's Snowboard SuperPipe finals and took the gold medal wth ease. Not a bad week's work.
Will he continue his double-gold streak in Aspen in ? We'll all have to wait to see. Learn more. X Games Aspen Schedule Announcement. All rights reserved.
To take some of the subjectivity out of this list of the greatest riders in X Games history, we started by counting up cold hard coins of the gold, silver, and bronze variety, starting with the top lists of Most X Games Snowboard Gold and Most X Games Snowboard Medals. Twelve of the riders on this list - including seven women - made the top cut on both counts. The list includes some old-schoolers, some quiet medal hoarders who might surprise you and some others who won't surprise you at all, and doesn't include some very big names who just haven't stacked as many medals as you might have expected.
As with any list of this kind, we encourage you to argue with us and amongst yourselves. Get ready for a rematch between Scotty and Ayumu Hirano: Ayumu missed X Games Aspen due to injury after beating Scotty in the heaviest SuperPipe contest ever in , with a score of At X Games, Ayumu now owns 2 gold, 1 silver in SuperPipe that's one shy of making the top list for Most Snowboard Gold and Most Snowboard Medals, our baseline criteria , and at 20 years old, he's the future of the discipline.
He scored a The first rider ever to land a double alley-oop backside rodeo in the SuperPipe, Elena Hight sits at 16 on the Most Snowboard Medals list with 1 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze in SuperPipe.
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 These snowboarders have influenced the rest of the world with their unique style, techniques, personality, professionalism, and sometimes, pure insanity.
Reading and watching this article will definitely be fun if you love to watch snowboarding as a sport or if you love snowboarding yourself and want to know more about the best snowboarders in the world. Professional snowboarders really are the most talented, unique, and fantastic athletes in the world. In this blog post, we will give you a list of the 25 best snowboarders of all time who impressed the world with their style and techniques.
I tried my best to get some of the gnarliest videos available for you to view on a rainy day. Some footage is quite old and will take you back to memory lane.
Shaun White is an American professional snowboarder widely known for best face in the sport of snowboarding. Born on September 3, , he had been in this sport since he was 17 years old, and since then, there is no stopping him. Shaun White became an Olympic champion for the first time when he was only 19 years old. Shaun White is the icon of snowboarding, and over the past 15 years, he has built up an unrivaled list of achievements.
Shaun White is an amazing three-time Olympic gold medalist and also holds the record for the most X Games gold medal holder by a snowboarder. Born in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and son to a ski patroller, Travis Rice is a big mountain snowboarding legend with a matchless track record for making genre-defining snowboarding movies. He was born on October 9, He has been listed as the thirteenth most influential snowboarder in the last 20 years by Snowboard Magazine. Travis Rice is the legend of slopes with over an experience of 12 years in elite completion.
In he started his professional career, and his career skyrocketed when he won a place in the Winter X Games. Travis Rice has filmed amazing snowboarding videos year after year and produced shots like a foot backcountry gap jump.
He has also won several US opens and an X Games gold medal. Gretchen Bleiler, born in Toledo, Ohio, started snowboarding as her passion at the age of He has his brother Matt Kass is the founder of Grenade Gloves that special gloves for snowboarding. Danny has been ranked as the best snowboarder of all time in the eyes of his fans, colleagues, and family. Anna Gasser is an Austrian snowboarder who was born on August 16, Anna is the first woman ever to land a super, awesome Cab Triple Underflip.
Moreover, in , she became the first female snowboarder to perform a Cab Double Cork kicker, a double salto backward with a half turn. Mark Lee McMorris was born on December 9, , and one of the best snowboarders to complete a backside triple cork
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