The fifth year of X Games Norway went down on the weekend on the slopes of Hafjell Alpinsenter, just 15 minutes from Lillehammer, with Big Air, Slopestyle and, for the first time at X Games Norway, Knuckle Huck. Snowboard Knuckle Huck featured a fully Norwegian field, with local favorite Marcus Kleveland from Dombas taking the top spot.

In the first competition of the event, Women’s Snowboard Big Air went down to the wire with Austrian Anna Gasser jumping from bronze to gold on the final run of the entire competition. She had locked grabs, the two best 1080s of the competition, spins in 3 different directions and doubles on every attempt. In the end, Gasser’s Cab double cork 1080 Indy on her last run sealed the deal for her to take gold, her third in the discipline. X Games Aspen 2020 gold medalist Miyabi Onitsuka took home her second X Games medal with silver and Canadian Laurie Blouin took bronze.

Women’s Snowboard Big Air results:

1. Anna Gasser (AUT)
2. Miyabi Onitsuka (JPN)
3. Laurie Blouin (CAN)
4. Jamie Anderson (USA)
5. Kokomo Murase (JPN)
6. Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (NZL)
7. Enni Rukajarvi (FIN)
8. Brooke Voight (CAN)

In Snowboard Men’s Big Air, Mark McMorris made history by earning his 19th X Games medal, surpassing Shaun White as the most-medaled athlete in winter X Games history. McMorris, hungry to break White’s record since Aspen 2020, took an early lead in the judges’ rankings from Run 1 and proved his dominance with two of the biggest tricks of the competition – a backside 1620 mute and switch backside 1620 melon. Fellow Canadian Max Parrot took it down to the wire, though, adding pressure in the last run of the event before ultimately taking silver. Making an all-Canadian podium, Darcy Sharpe took bronze.

Men’s Snowboard Big Air results:

1. Mark McMorris (CAN)
2. Max Parrot (CAN)
3. Darcy Sharpe (CAN)
4. Mons Røisland (NOR)
5. Sven Thorgren (SWE)
6. Ståle Sandbech (NOR)
7. Rene Rinnekangas (FIN)
8. Fridtjof Sæther Tischendorf (NOR)

Snowboard Knuckle Huck made it’s Norwegian debut with a Norwegian-only field of five riders. Local favorite Marcus Kleveland, who X Games’ Snowboard play-by-play announcer Brandon Graham called “the human cheat code,” took home the inaugural medal with tricks highlighted by a butter 540 to nollie 1080 and a butter Cab 720 to backside 720.

The second and final day of X Games Norway at Hafjell Alpinsenter was a Slopestyle showdown, featuring Men’s and Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle competitions. In X Games history, Norwegians have now collected 92 medals – 28 gold, 32 silver, 32 bronze. Johanne Killi remains the most-medaled Norwegian athlete in X Games history with seven. Stale Sandbech earned a bronze medal in Snowboard Slopestyle, his first X Games medal since the last time he competed in Hafjell at X Games Norway 2017. This brings his total X Games medal count to six. Fellow Norwegians in the discipline weren’t able to land clean enough runs for podium spots, with Mons Roisland finishing fifth and Marcus Kleveland in seventh.

New Zealander Zoi Sadowski-Synnott opened the day by winning her second X Games Snowboard Slopestyle gold medal. She showed technical prowess in the rails at the top of the course with combos like her backside bluntside to backside 180 sameway and her boardslide pretzel, both in Run 1. Her switch backside double cork 900 stalefish in Run 3 was the biggest trick of the contest. She took an early lead in Run 1 and never gave it up, with top-to-bottom runs in three of her four passes. Japan’s Kokomo Murase bettered her Aspen 2020 bronze performance with a Slopestyle silver and Canada’s Brooke Voigt earned her first X Games medal with bronze.

Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle results:

1. Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (NZL)
2. Kokomo Murase (JPN)
3. Brooke Voigt (CAN)
4. Anna Gasser (AUT)
5. Laurie Blouin (CAN)
6. Jamie Anderson (USA)
7. Enni Rukajarvi (FIN)
8. Miyabi Onitsuka (JPN)

Canadians Max Parrot and Mark McMorris battled it out once more in Men’s Snowboard Slopestyle. Max Parrot landed his Cab triple cork 1620 in Run 1 and frontside bluntslide to 450 out in Run 2 which were two of the biggest tricks of the contest. A full pass on Run 4, including a 50-50 pole jam to wildcat backflip up top and and a frontside triple cork 1440 mute at the bottom, helped push him into the top spot ahead of McMorris. While McMorris settled for silver he joined a small crew of X Games athletes with twenty total medals and is now tied with Jamie Bestwick and Bucky Lasek for 6th on the list of most X Games medals all-time. Norwegian Stale Sandbech took bronze.

Men’s Snowboard Slopestyle results:

1. Max Parrot (CAN)
2. Mark McMorris (CAN)
3. Ståle Sandbech (NOR)
4. Sven Thorgren (SWE)
5. Mons Røisland (NOR)
6. Rene Rinnekangas (FIN)
7. Marcus Kleveland (NOR)
8. Darcy Sharpe (CAN)

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Source: XGames.com