X games halfpipe winner

While she impressed and made history, she and the rest of the field fell short of victor and X Games rookie Dusty Henricksen. Henricksen, 17, also won gold in the men's snowboard slopestyle and defeated a field that included Olympic champion Red Gerard. Another notable Olympic champion thrived, as Chloe Kim won the women's snowboard superpipe for her fifth snowboard halfpipe title in Aspen.

One of Kim's six and one of Clark's seven X Games halfpipe titles came in competition outside of Aspen. ChloeKim age 20, now has 8 XGames medals overall. She returned to competition this month after taking 21 months off to focus on her first year at Princeton University.

Making Kim's performance all the more impressive is the fact that she took last year's event off because she was taking freshman classes at Princeton. Speaking of making history, Eileen Gu won the women's ski superpipe and the women's ski slopestyle while also taking home bronze in the women's ski big air. Her three medals while representing China equaled the country's total in the year history of the X Games, and she called the stretch "the best two days of my life.

There was supposed to be something of a grand finale Sunday after so much thrilling competition with Shaun White's return to competitive snowboarding for the first time since the Pyeongchang Olympics in the men's superpipe, but he withdrew after suffering a knee injury in practice. Earlier Saturday, year-old Eileen Gu won her second title in as many days, this time in ski slopestyle.

Gu, born in San Francisco to an American father and Chinese mother, became the first athlete from China to win an X Games title on Friday, when she took the ski halfpipe. Alex Hall took bronze, becoming the first U. OlympicTalk is on Apple News. Favorite us! Follow nbcolympictalk. More: Olympics Megan Nick extends historic season for U. Russia is banned. A neutral athlete from Russia won a world championship.

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