Winter X Games 2023: Full Results, Medal Winners and Best Trick Highlights
X Games Aspen 2023 is in the books after three action-packed days. The competition, which exists outside the FIS World Cup competitive ski and snowboard season, has always served as a breeding ground for progression in freestyle skiing and snowboarding, and that was never more true than this year.
Heading into the start of competition Friday, a woman had never landed a triple cork (three-and-a-half off-axis flips) in ski or snowboard competition. By the time the sun rose Sunday, three had: one skier and two snowboarders.
The ladies made more history Saturday in the women's snowboard halfpipe competition. Gaon Choi, at 14 years and two months old, broke Chloe Kim's record as the youngest X Games snowboard halfpipe gold medalist.
On the men's side, Canada's Mark McMorris made history as well with his win in men's snowboard slopestyle for his 22nd X Games medal. That broke a tie with female snowboarder Jamie Anderson for the most total Winter X Games medals.
Other highlights of this weekend's event included New Zealander and Olympic gold medalist Zoi Sadowski-Synnott becoming the first athlete to win back-to-back X Games gold since Silje Norendal (2014-15).
Let's take a look at the full results from every event at X Games Aspen 2023, as well as the biggest tricks and top highlights from another year of exhilarating action.
Friday Results
X Games Aspen 2023 started off with a bang Friday, as Sadowski-Synnott successfully earned her second consecutive X Games slopestyle medal.
Right now, there's no female snowboarder better on the slopestyle course, if not all-around in competition, than Sadowski-Synnott. "Coming from Down Under, you feel like a bit of an underdog," the New Zealander said Friday. But right now, Sadowski-Synnott is the rider to beat.
In women's skiing, Canada's Megan Oldham wrote her name in the record books Friday when she became the first woman to land a triple cork in ski or snowboard competition.
On Friday night, Australian snowboarder Scotty James proved he's the new king of halfpipe with his gold medal, his fifth X Games gold. But the young guns in men's halfpipe snowboarding are nipping at his heels.
Women's Snowboard Slopestyle
Gold: Zoi Sadowski-Synnott
Silver: Tess Coady
Bronze: Kokomo Murase
Women's Ski Big Air
Gold: Megan Oldham
Silver: Tess Ledeux
Bronze: Kirsty Muir
Ski Knuckle Huck
Gold: Jesper Tjader
Silver: Matej Svancer
Bronze: Colby Stevenson
Men's Snowboard SuperPipe
Gold: Scotty James
Silver: Jan Scherrer
Bronze: Valentino Guseli
Saturday Results
Speaking of young guns in snowboard halfpipe, 14-year-old Gaon Choi of South Korea exploded onto the scene as an X Games rookie Saturday by breaking Chloe Kim's record as the youngest ever X Games snowboard halfpipe winner.
Not only was this Choi's first X Games, but it was her first pro competition.
To make the story even more amazing, Kim is Choi's mentor, and she and her family helped Choi move to the U.S. from Seoul to train with the Mammoth Mountain development team.
The biggest trick of Choi's gold-worthy halfpipe run was her frontside 1080 (three full rotations) melon.
The history continued Saturday night in the women's snowboard big air competition. After Oldham landed the first triple in competition by a female skier or snowboarder Friday, Japan's Reira Iwabuchi became the first female snowboarder to do it in competition. Her clean triple underflip frontside grab was what helped her secure gold.
Moments later, Canada's Laurie Blouin landed her own triple. Austria's Anna Gasser, the first female snowboarder to land a triple (however not in a competition) is the only other woman who has done it, and she is likely to do it in a competition sometime this season after not being able to put it down successfully at X Games.
"Reira didn't just land the first triple in a women's snowboard contest; she sent the sport's trajectory into warp speed. To land it first-try so perfectly is really the stuff of legends," X Games snowboarding commentator Brandon Graham said.
The men's snowboard big air final picked up right after the women's, and Marcus Kleveland, as always, blew people's minds with his nearly flawless runs (his first earned a 49 out of a possible 50) to defend his gold medal from 2022. The trick that the judges deemed almost perfect was a frontside triple rodeo 1800.
Men's Ski Slopestyle
Gold: Colby Stevenson
Silver: Mac Forehand
Bronze: Ferdinand Dahl
Women's Snowboard Superpipe
Gold: Gaon Choi
Silver: Maddie Mastro
Bronze: Xuetong Cai
Women's Ski Superpipe
Gold: Zoe Atkin
Silver: Rachael Karker
Bronze: Svea Irving
Women's Snowboard Big Air
Gold: Reira Iwabuchi
Silver: Zoi Sadowski-Synnott
Bronze: Laurie Blouin
Men's Snowboard Big Air
Gold: Marcus Kleveland
Silver: Takeru Otsuka
Bronze: Yiming Su
Sunday Results
Marcus Kleveland's quest to go 3-of-3 in gold medals at X Games Aspen 2023 was thwarted by Canada's Mark McMorris, who took gold in men's snowboard slopestyle.
With the win, McMorris earned his 22nd total X Games medal, breaking his tie with Jamie Anderson to become the sole winningest Winter X games athlete.
In men's ski big air Sunday night, the second-to-last competition of the weekend, 21-year-old Mac Forehand of the U.S. landed a perfect 2160 Cuban grab, which helped him secure gold.
Women's Ski Slopestyle
Gold: Megan Oldham
Silver: Mathilde Gremaud
Bronze: Kirsty Muir
Men's Snowboard Slopestyle
Gold: Mark McMorris
Silver: Marcus Kleveland
Bronze: Mons Roisland
Snowboard Knuckle Huck
Gold: Marcus Kleveland
Silver: Halldor Helgason
Bronze: Dusty Henricksen
Men's Ski Big Air
Gold: Mac Forehand
Silver: Teal Harle
Bronze: Birk Ruud
Men's Ski Superpipe
Gold: David Wise
Silver: Birk Irving
Bronze: Jon Sallinen