This year marks the return of SnoCross as well as one of the sport's biggest stars, Levi LaVallee, who's been sidelined with injuries since LaVallee, 30, is the only athlete who will compete in all four snowmobile disciples at Winter X and is looking for his first gold in SnoCross. It means the most to snowmobiling, so I'm excited to see it back," LaVallee says. But a win won't come easily against this field.
For five straight years before the sport was dropped in , Tucker Hibbert crossed the Winter X finish line first. Robbie Malinoski, who finished third in , is currently second in the standings, followed by Ross Martin, 's silver medalist.
Of the eight athletes in the field, only three have medaled in the event: LaVallee, who won in , Heath Frisby, who took silver in , and Joe Parsons, a two-time winner and and the favorite heading into the event. There's no tougher Winter X repeat win than Snowmobile Freestyle.
A different rider has won this event every year since it debuted in And the most recent winner, Colten Moore, 23, started riding snowmobiles in December just 32 days before his first Winter X Games appearance. Until then, he and older brother Caleb last year's bronze medalist competed on the freestyle ATV circuit around their hometown of Krum, Texas. But the brothers took quickly to the white stuff, medaling in their first year at X. This year, Colten hopes to be the first repeat winner and says his biggest training advantage is skin-deep.
He trains alongside one of the best freestyle snowmobilers in the world: his older brother. Much like the Moore brothers, this year's dark horse for Best Trick gold, Jackson "Jacko" Strong, began riding snowmobiles only months before Winter X. But the two-time defending X Games champ in Freestyle Moto X has been inspiring snowmobile tricks since he landed the first front flip in motocross competition, at the X Games.
Six months later, at Winter X, Frisby won gold by becoming the first snowmobile rider to land the trick. This past summer, Jacko won his second gold by introducing a new body varial he dubbed "The Jack. Learn more. X Games Aspen Schedule Announcement. X Games Aspen Returns Jan. X Games Aspen Is Back! Highlight Reel: X Games Aspen Best of Skateboarding: X Games Best of Moto X: X Games Highlight Reel: X Games Real Street Burnquist won three golds in Skateboard Big Air in and also recorded a pair of firsts.
He landed a switch ollie, shown here in Munich, and also landed a lien rodeo in Foz. The debut of Women's Skateboard Park brought some marks: Alana Smith, 12, won her first medal and became the youngest medalist in X Games history.
Lizzie Armanto, shown here, won her first gold. The only other snowboarder who has this trick dialed is Shaun White, and he's never landed it in a competition before. A ollie had never been done anywhere by anyone before Jake Brown landed one in Foz. Brown won bronze in the Skateboard Big Air competition there. Canadian Brett Rheeder, shown here dropping in for his final run, took home the gold in dramatic fashion.
He edged out countryman Brandon Semenuk for the win. Sammy Carlson won the judges' favorite award. Firsts all around. Learn more. X Games Aspen Schedule Announcement. X Games Aspen Returns Jan. X Games Aspen Is Back! Maddie Bowman, who won the silver medal in the superpipe at the Winter X Games last year, did one better this year, earning a gold medal with a run of Roz Groenewoud was the defending champion in the event after posting a record score of She ended up with the silver medal this time around with a score of Megan Gunning, who won silver in the Winter X Games, grabbed a bronze medal on Friday, posting a run of David Wise of Reno posted an eye-opening score of Perhaps what was even more impressive was that he did so after he posted a Torin Yater-Wallace, who became the youngest Winter X Games medalist in history when he won silver in the event in , grabbed another silver medal for his collection with a score of Simon Dumont of Maine picked up the bronze medal with a score of It was a lot of sitting and waiting in anxious anticipation for Goepper, as he finished seventh in the elimination round and posted his eventual winning score before many of the competition's premier skiers took the slopes.
Henrik Harlaut posted a strong run of However, the Swede certainly won't be disappointed in taking home the silver, and he additionally has the Big Air gold under his belt. Great Britain's James Woods won the elimination, which only heightened the suspense as he went last. Unfortunately for Woods, his final run of Entering this race, Schultz was the prohibitive favorite as the two-time reigning champion. But after an early tangle sent him off of his snowmobile in the opening seconds of the race, he found himself in dead-last.
Unfazed, Schultz proceeded to storm back after the first lap mishap, eventually finding his way to the front of the pack and winning his third consecutive gold medal with a time of
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