![]() On Friday, Monster Energy riders claimed a total of seven medals (three gold, one silver, and three bronze) across four contest events at Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen Snowmass, Colorado. ![]() On Saturday night they showed that 13 months from the Sochi Olympics, the sport is in good hands.The biggest spectacle in winter action sports is back in full force! Monster Energy congratulates its team of freeski and snowboard athletes on a strong performance on the first day of X Games Aspen 2023. Gold was speaking of Hight's historic trick, but the young snowboarder could very easily have been talking about the contributions of the three women atop the podium. "I can't express how important it is to the progression of women's snowboarding." "It's amazing," Gold said, still smiling after her seven-hit second run gave her a score of 85.00 and her first X Games medal. Earlier this month she won the women's halfpipe at the FIS Snowboard World Championships. Only two days ago, she was just glad to be invited here.īut she represents the future of the sport, too. The high school junior grew up watching Clark, 29, in the X Games. "It's great to see the women out there throwing down."Īs the medalists gathered in the press tent after a historic night, Gold soaked in being in elite company. "You never know with the judges and the thing with snowboarding is, I go out to do my best and my goal for tonight was to land my run and I am just beyond thrilled that I did that," said Hight. The judges' score of 90.33, delivered several minutes after Clark's run as the two awaited the outcome at the bottom of the pipe, gave Clark her fourth gold medal in the event. Hight's highest was 8 feet on the double backside alley-oop rodeo. Staying high above the 22-foot pipe walls helped as her lowest hit was 9 feet high. It's one she's been practicing since May, when she landed it once on snow.Ĭlark opened her final run with a frontside 1080 – a trick she was the first to land in competition here in 2010 – and reached 14 feet of amplitude on the hit. ![]() native, scored a 90.00 when she ended her first run with her history-making trick. Hight, a 23-year-old South Lake Tahoe, Calif. We're essentially shaping the sport and leading the way."Ĭlark reached her historic three-peat by edging Hight on her last of three runs. A few years ago I came out and did the 1080. "We get to show people what's possible to do on a snowboard. "The level of women's snowboarding is at an all-time high," said Clark. By Saturday, she was an X Games medalist. The Steamboat Springs, Colo., native was an alternate until Thursday morning when Gretchen Bleiler pulled out of the competition because of a lingering injury. To Clark's left stood Arielle Gold, a 16-year-old making her first X Games appearance. Only two other snowboarders have ever landed it, but neither Danny Davis nor Shaun White did it in competition. The trick – the first double cork ever in a women's competition – made history. Her first run down the pipe made history, with Hight landing a double backside alley-oop rodeo on her final hit. To her right, Elena Hight accepted silver by the narrowest of margins. Her win in the snowboard superpipe finals at Buttermilk Mountain on Friday night was her third in a row, a first ever three-peat in the event. – As the three women climbed the X Games podium, one thing became clear – women's snowboarding hasn't been in better shape.Ĭlimbing to the middle to take gold, Kelly Clark resumed a familiar spot.
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