Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team's Cody Winters raced to his first snowboard cross World Cup podium, taking third at the much anticipated World Cup night final in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

The Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team saw four men through from the morning rounds of qualifications, led by 2022 Olympian Jake Vedder with the fourth fastest time in the field of 67 competitors. Vedder, who took second place on this same track last season, was joined by teammates Nick Baumgartner, Cody Winters and Nathan Pare in the highly anticipated final under the lights. Vedder was unable to repeat last year's podium performance and was knocked out in the round of eight finals alongside Pare in a dramatic photo finish, while Baumgartner and Winters punched their ticket to the quarterfinal round.

In a stacked field, Winters earned a spot in the semi finals with a clutch quarterfinal performance, taking the runner up spot behind current snowboard cross World Cup leader Eliot Grondin from Canada. An early mistake took Baumgartner out of contention for the top two spots in his heat, but the four-time Olympian showed why he's one of the best to ever do it and battled his way back up to the lead pack, just missing out on a third place quarterfinal finish.

It was all eyes on Winters heading into the semifinals and the dual discipline athlete found himself in a familiar position, having podiumed at the FIS Snowboard World Cup parallel slalom in Bad Gastein last month. With heavy hitters and podium regulars Leon Ulbricht from Germany, Austria's Jacob Dusek and Canada's Eliot Grondin all crashing out, the field was wide open for a new racer to claim the World Cup win and Winters had his eye on the prize. After securing a spot in the big final, Winters took to the start gate one last time to battle it out for a spot on the podium. With his teammates cheering at the bottom, Winters raced to a photo finish with Canada's Liam Moffatt, who just barely edged out the American for the second place spot.

Winters' third place finish in Cortina marks the first World Cup snowboard cross podium of his career. He is the only athlete on the World Cup circuit to be competing in two different disciplines and takes the title as the first American snowboarder to podium back-to-back in those two different disciplines.

"It feels amazing to be able to get both podiums in both events," said Winters. "It’s something I had written down on my bucket list and I finally did it. I'm super happy."

Brianna Schnorrbusch and Virginia Boyd represented the Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team on the women's side of competition, but neither were able to make it through the morning round of heats. This was true rookie Boyd's first World Cup start.

The snowboard cross crew heads to Erzerum, Turkey for the next round of World Cup competition that includes the first team event of the season.

RESULTS
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Men

Uncharacteristic warm temperatures and variable cloud cover conditions set the tone for the Visa Big Air presented by Toyota final in Aspen, with riders battling slow takeoffs and ever changing visibility on the final day of FIS Park & Pipe World Cup competition in Aspen. 

Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team rookies Hahna Norman and Lily Dhawornvej held it down  on the women's side of competition. In her first World Cup Big Air finals, Norman put down her signature double wildcat indy and a frontside double 10 weddle on her first two jumps, but was unable to nail her final back 9 and finished the day in fifth overall. Dhawornvej's back 9 stalefish put her in podium position after the first jump but a hand drag on her cab 9 stalefish knocked her out of the top three. Despite cleaning it up on her third and final jump, Dhawornvej was unable to crack into the top three and finished the contest in fourth place.

Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team veterans Red Gerard and Chris Corning joined young gun Ollie Martin in the Visa Big Air presented by Toyota men's final. Two-time Olympian Corning came out swinging, dropping a huge back 18 melon to kick things off for the Americans. Teammate Gerard followed him up with a switch back 16 weddle and Martin, the rookie, a huge back triple 18 that sent shock waves through the field of competitors. Despite all three Americans stomping two of three runs, the trio was unable to hold off the likes of Japan's Taiga Hasegawa and Yuto Miyamura, both earning a spot on the podium in a clutch third and final jump. Canada's Eli Bouchard had a breakout big air performance and stole the top spot from the Japanese, taking first overall in Aspen. The Americans all finished within the top eight, Martin taking fourth, Gerard fifth and Corning eighth overall, respectively. 

Both having breaking rookie seasons, Dhawornvej and Martin took the title of Big Air National Champion as the top two American big air finishers in Aspen. 

The Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team turns their focus to Calgary for the next FIS Park & Pipe World Cup, Feb. 19-23.

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Men

Snowboard action at the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix wrapped up Sunday morning with slopestyle finals and six members of the Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team were set to drop. Sean FitzSimons secured his second podium of his career. 

Warmer temperatures and a bit of cloud cover set the scene over Aspen’s Buttermilk Park and the athletes took advantage of the early morning weather window and put on a show for the Colorado crowd.

Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team rookie athletes held it down on the women’s side of competition, with 15 year old Lily Dhawornvej making her first domestic slopestyle finals appearance and Hahna Norman earning her first World Cup career final. Although neither Dhawornvej or Norman were able to land a full pull clean, the two young guns proved they belong on the World Cup stage and are true threats to make the Olympic roster in the upcoming cycle.

The men’s side of competition saw four Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team members in the mix. 2022 Olympian FitzSimons put down two clean runs to qualify into finals and was looking to continue his competition full pull streak in Sunday’s competition. Sitting in third place after a solid first run, FitzSimons, better known as "Bon" by his teammates, looked to best his score of 73.76 and hold his place on the podium. Dropping in for the final time in Aspen, FitzSimons kicked things off with a solid rail section into a switch backside 16 melon, backside triple cork 14 weddle and a frontside triple cork 14 weddle, saluting to the Colorado crowd hyping him up in the stands as he slashed into the finish area. FitzSimons was forced to sit through a grueling 11 more runs from riders who are all threats to the podium before he was able to claim third place on the day and secure the second World Cup podium of his career.

"It felt really good to put four for four down and even better to earn a spot on the podium,” said an emotional FitzSimons after the awards ceremony. “If there was an event to podium at this would be the one so I’m psyched to get it done.”

Two-time Olympian Chris Corning, better known as “Captain America” by his teammates, and Jake Canter, straight off a successful big air stint in Austria, took 10th and 11th respectively. Making his first World Cup finals appearance, North Carolinian Fynn Bullock, who doubles as a professional wakeboarder in the off-season, put down a clutch second run, ending with a massive backside 16 nose grab to secure seventh place overall.

The Toyota U.S. Grand Prix at Aspen Snowmass was recently added as a pivotal competition towards qualifying for the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympic Winter Games, making the achievement even more bittersweet for FitzSimons, a Mt. Hood native who spent the last year battling back from a broken pelvis. 

“It’s been a long road coming back from injury,” FitzSimons added. “It feels great to be on the box again. So unreal.” 

Never forgetting where he came from, FitzSimons added one final remark:

“Shoutout Oregon. I better see that in the article.”

With his third place finish in Aspen, FitzSimons locked up the U.S. national snowboard slopestyle Championship title for the men and rookie Lily Dhawornvej earned the honor for the women.

The Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team has two days of training before Wednesday’s qualifications for the Visa Big Air presented by Toyota. Watch all the action from big air finals live from Buttermilk on Outside TV on Thursday, Feb. 6 at 3:00 p.m. ET.

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Chloe Kim came away with another World Cup victory, with teammate Maddie Mastro doing what she does best - another never-before-done trick as the Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team was back in Aspen Snowmass, Colorado for the first time since 2021, at the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix.

In Saturday's halfpipe final, the pipe was crowded with fans to cheer on a field full of heavy hitters for the penultimate halfpipe World Cup of the season. The Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team saw three women in finals, including two-time Olympic Gold medalist Kim, two-time Olympian Mastro and 18-year-old Sonora Alba, who was making her first World Cup final of the 2024-25 season.

Alba was first to drop for the American women and sent her huge signature backside indy to start off what would be a near-perfect run, before just missing the landing on her final hit, an alley oop mctwist. With a chip on her shoulder, Alba dropped into the Aspen halfpipe for a second time and laced her full run clean, earning a score of 66.74 to put her in fifth place, tying her personal best World Cup result.

Wearing the coveted yellow bib to signify her place as first overall in the FIS halfpipe World Cup standings, Mastro had an uncharacteristic fall on the first hit of her first run, just slipping out on her signature double crippler. The seasoned veteran didn’t let the mistake shake her and brought a focused determination to her second attempt to land one clean and earn her a score the judges deemed worthy of fourth place. In her final attempt to sneak onto the podium, Mastro put down a newly designed run and became the first woman to land a switch ally oop backside rodeo in the contest. The judges awarded Mastro a score of 84.00, maintaining her fourth-place spot.

Straight off of her historic X Games gold medal just last week, Kim dropped into finals as the top qualifier and sent shockwaves through the field of competitors with a massive score of 91.75 on her first attempt of the day. Kim was unable to put down her final two runs, but her three-point margin on the rest of the field held strong throughout the contest and earned her the first-place spot on the podium. Korea’s Gaon Choi’s first run score of 88.75 landed her in the second place spot and Japan’s Sara Shimizu took third, continuing her breakout rookie season.

Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team veterans Chase Josey and Lucas Foster held it down for the American’s on the men’s side of competition and the olympians put on a show in front of a home crowd. Josey put down a nail biter of a first run and was unable to clean it up on his second attempt. With one attempt left, Josey dropped in regular, switching it up from his normal switch drop in and put down a heater of a run and his best of the season, catapulting him up to third place. Following up his teammate, Foster dropped into the pipe for the final time after failing to land both of his first two attempts. With his home Colorado crowd cheering him on, Foster put on a show, stomping all five of his hits including his signature double ally oop mctwist, earning him a score of 80.25 to bump out teammate Foster on the podium. Despite massive performances, the Amwericans were eventually knocked off of the podium by the Japanese, continuing their dominance in the halfpipe. 

The Toyota U.S. Grand Prix continues Sunday with the men’s and women’s snowboard slopestyle finals, the first run dropping at 11:30 a.m. ET live on Outside Watch. The Hydro Flak U.S. Snowboard halfpipe Team turns to the Calgary Snow Rodeo for the final halfpipe competition of the season before World Championships.

The 72-hour stretch of non-stop X Games actions concluded on Saturday, Jan. 26, with the men’s snowboard slopestyle, women’s ski slopestyle, women’s and men’s snowboard street style, women’s snowboard superpipe, men’s ski superpipe and men’s ski big air. Stifel U.S. Ski Team and Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team athletes continued to put on a show, with more X Games gold medals won, history made and more. 

The men’s snowboard slopestyle was up first, with 2024 X Games slopestyle champion Red Gerard looking to defend his title in front of a hometown crowd. Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team teammate Dusty Henricksen joined him in the mix, still riding the high of his bronze medal grab in knuckle huck the night before. Following the same new playoff and final format, the field was cut in half after the first two runs - Gerard made the flip and Henricksen just missed out in sixth.

In his first of two final runs, Gerard put down a switch backside 1620, a frontside 1440 and a backside 1800 to take the lead, but it was his final run, complete with a switch boardslide on the up-flat-down rail, switch backside triple 1620 and a backside 18 that secured him the X Games gold for the second consecutive year.

“It felt good for sure,” said Gerard after receiving his gold medal. “I mean, coming back as the X Games gold medalist is obviously awesome but a full 365 days goes by, I feel like I have short term memory loss, I forget how it goes and I always feel like a newbie when I come here. And obviously it’s 10 of the best riders in the world so it’s really hard to get back to the top of the podium so I’m just happy with how the week went.”

Canadian Mark McMorris, a rider Gerard has idolized throughout his entire career, earned the silver medal for the second year in a row and Japan’s Taiga Hasegawa took home the bronze.

Stifel U.S. Freeski Team’s Grace Henderson and Rell Harwood were back in action for women’s ski slopestyle. Henderson kicked things off with a smooth run and cleaned it up on her second attempt, which was good enough for fifth overall. Harwood battled a slower course and struggled to put down the run she wanted, ultimately taking seventh overall in the discipline. Tess Ledeux of France won her second straight X Games gold medal in slopestyle, with Canada’s Olivia Asselin in second and Finland’s Anni Karava in third.

The inaugural medal year for snowboard streetstyle saw Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team’s Lily Dhawornvej back in action after winning her first X Games medal in knuckle huck on Friday, Jan. 24, taking home third place in her rookie X Games appearance. Up against some of the best rail riders in the game, the 15-year-old held her own but ultimately failed to qualify out of her heat. American Iris Pham took the inaugural street-style gold, Telma Sarkipaju of Finland the silver and American Jaylen Hanson the bronze.

The men immediately followed up the women and took to the X Games street style course. Although Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team’s Dusty Henricksen was invited but decided to forgo the competition, the stoke was still high as some of the most well-known street riders in the game impressed the judges on the custom-built urban course. Canadian Frank Jobin ended the jam session on top, American Nate Haust took the silver medal and American Benny Milam finished the contest in third.

All eyes turned to women's snowboard superpipe, where 2024 X Games gold medalist Chloe Kim looked to defend her title. Kim was joined by teammates Maddie Mastro and Maddy Schaffrick for the initial playoff round of two runs each. Making her return to X Games for the first time since 2015, Schaffrick was a crowd favorite and, despite not qualifying through after the first two runs, rode down into a crowd of adoring fans. Only separated by one point, Kim and Mastro qualified in the top two spots and were the favorites heading into the round of finals. Mastro was first to drop for the two Americans and stomped a massive double crippler on her first hit to land her run clean, earning a score of 89.66. Mastro’s run would only be bested by Kim, whose impressive first finals run earned her the eighth X Games gold medal of her career, tying fellow American Shaun White for the most superpipe gold medals in X Games history.

“This one means a lot if I’m being completely honest,” said Kim. “I wish I would’ve put down my final run but I’m so happy nonetheless.”

Japan’s X Games rookie Sara Shimizu took the bronze medal, joining the two Americans on the podium.

The action continued in the same venue for the men’s ski superpipe. The Stifel U.S. Ski Team represented five of the eight men in the field: Aaron Blunck, defending X Games gold medalist Alex Ferreira, Nick Goepper, Hunter Hess and Birk Irving. Ferreira, Goepper and Hess made it through to the finals with Kiwi Finley Melville-Ives. All three Americans landed a clean first run to the podium. Goepper finished in first for his first X Games medal in superpipe (he has six previous X Games medals from slopestyle), with Ferreira in second and Hess took the bronze for the second year in a row.

The final event of the night, and X Games Aspen 2025, was men’s ski big air and 2024 X Games gold medalist Troy Podmilsak looked to defend his title. Mac Forehand and Alex Hall joined him in the event, but Podmilsak was the only American who made it to the finals. Podmilsak put down his winning trick from last year, a triple cork 2160 mute, but it wasn’t enough to secure his second X Games gold. Italy’s Miro Tabanelli landed the world’s first 2340 to secure the win. New Zealand’s Luca Harrington and Austria’s Matej Svancer joined him on the podium.

The Stifel U.S. Freeski Team and Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team walk away from the 2025 Aspen Winter X Games with 13 combined medals, six of them gold, three silver and four bronze. X Games team athletes will remain in Aspen and be joined by the rest of the squad for the upcoming Toyota U.S. Grand Prix and Visa Big Air presented by Toyota, Jan. 30 to Feb. 6.

The world’s best park and pipe athletes returned to the slopes of Aspen’s Buttermilk Mountain for the second day of jam-packed X Games action. Friday marked the biggest day of competition, featuring finals of women’s snowboard slopestyle, men’s ski slopestyle, women’s and men’s ski street style, women’s snowboard knuckle huck, women’s ski superpipe, women’s ski big air, men’s snowboard big air and men’s snowboard knuckle huck.

The second day of competition kicked off with women’s snowboard slopestyle final and Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team’s Julia Marino was the lone American in the field of eight. Back in the mix after a year long hiatus from competition due to an injury sustained from X Games practice in 2024, Marino landed her first run out of the gate clean, putting a huge exclamation mark on her highly anticipated return to competition. Her score of 77 was not enough to make the cut after the first two runs but it was exciting to see Marino back in action nonetheless.

“Honestly, I didn’t know if I was going to run it today and I’m so glad I did,” said Marino. “I’m just so happy to be out there and it means a lot to put it down clean after a year away from contest.”

The final was an exciting display of women’s snowboarding, with New Zealand's Zoi Sadowski-Synnott making history as the first woman to land a triple cork in any ski or snowboard slopestyle run, securing the X Games gold. Japan's Kokomo Murase took the silver and Mia Brooks of Great Britain rounded out the podium with the bronze.

Next up was men’s ski slopestyle and it was a heater. Following the new “playoff” format that debuted this year, the field was cut in half after each athlete took two runs and the scores were wiped clean, leaving the final five with two remaining runs to impress the judges. Stifel U.S. Freeski Team athletes Mac Forehand and Konnor Ralph made the cut. Forehand showed off his technical skills and creativity to win the bronze medal. Ralph, an X Games rookie, finished the contest in fourth. Colby Stevenson ended the day in sixth and Alex Hall took seventh. Luca Harrington of New Zealand secured the win in his first X Games appearance and Andri Ragettli of Switzerland took home the silver.

Friday debuted the inaugural X Games street style competition in Aspen with Americans Rell Harwood, Bella Bacon, Marion Balsamo, Taylor Lundquist and X Games rookie Eleanor Andrews as five of eight competitors. Andrews earned her X Games Aspen invitation by winning the Next X street style competition at Copper Mountain in December. Street style featured two heats of four competitors, the top two continuing on to the final. Harwood and Andrews were in heat two and finished third and fourth in their heat, respectively. Olivia Asselin of Canada took home the gold, Bacon the silver and Balsamo the bronze.

Men’s street style followed up the women and Alex Hall and Colby Stevenson were back again for their third event of the weekend. In heat one, Hall struggled to land his first few runs and finished fourth. Stevenson, in heat two, qualified into the finals and ultimately came out on top with the gold in the inaugural X Games street style competition. He impressed the judges with his consistent clean landings and his switch 270 pretzel 630, earning the fifth X Games gold medal of his career. Stevenson was joined on the podium by the USA’s Tucker FitzSimons in second and Canada’s Evan McEachran in third.

X Games competition continued with women’s snowboard knuckle huck. Making her X Games debut, Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team’s Lily Dhawornvej was set to compete against some of the best and more creative female riders in the game.

Dhawornvej stepped up to the plate and threw a tame dog early on in the competition to put her into the top three early on in the competition. After thirty minutes of non-stop knuckle huck action, the 15-year-old held on to a podium position and earned the bronze medal in her X Games debut. Murase took the gold for the second consecutive year and Brookes the silver, respectively.

Stifel U.S. Freeski Team’s Kate Gray made her first X Games appearance in the women’s superpipe after starting this week as an alternate. Gray was joined by teammates Hanna Faulhaber and Svea Irving. None of the Americans made it through to the finals, but supported their fellow skiers in one of the most talented women’s halfpipe finals to date. Canada’s Cassie Sharpe took home the gold in her first X Games since 2021 and celebrated at the bottom with her daughter. Sharpe was joined by China’s Fanghui Li, earning her first X Games medal with a silver and Canada’s Amy Fraser, who finished third for the second year in a row.

Stifel U.S. Freeski Team’s Grace Henderson and Rell Harwood represented the USA in women’s ski big air. Henderson was originally an alternate, but was called up a few hours before the contest was set to drop for her second X Games appearance. Both Harwood and Henderson put down clean tricks in the playoff round to each earn a spot in the round of finals. Unfortunately, Harwood was unable to put down a clean run and finished the night in fourth. Henderson won her first X Games medal and finished second with a beautiful double 1080 and capped blunt grab. She was joined on the podium by Italy’s Flora Tabanelli in first and France’s Tess Ledeux in third.

Although no Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team athletes dropped in the men’s snowboard big air final, the contest proved to be one of the most entertaining events of the night. Japan’s Hiroto Ogiwara made history with the world’s first backside 2160 in competition and fellow countryman Taiga Hasegawa followed him up with the first-ever cab 2160 in competition. Just when the crowd thought they had seen it all, Ogiwara made history once again, landing the world’s first 2340 en route to the gold medal. Hasegawa took the silver and New Zealand’s Rocco Jamieson the bronze.

The men’s snowboard knuckle huck capped off Friday’s competition schedule with Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team’s Dusty Henricksen set to drop. Henricksen showcased his signature sleepy style and made it look easy, throwing a cab 180 double in front of a packed X Games crowd. Henricksen held on to the third place spot throughout the thirty minutes of non-stop knuckle huck action and secured the bronze, marking his fifth career X Games medal and fourth in the discipline. Switzerland’s Patrick Hofmann took home the silver and China’s X Games Rookie Ziyang Wang the gold, making history of his own as the first athlete to compete in both X Games superpipe and knuckle huck.

X Games Aspen 2025 concludes on Saturday with men’s snowboard slopestyle, women’s ski slopestyle, women’s and men’s snowboard street style, women’s snowboard superpipe, men’s ski superpipe and men’s ski big air. Watch live on xgames.com starting at 1:15 p.m. ET.

X Games Aspen kicked off in full force today with four events - men’s and women’s ski knuckle huck, women’s snowboard big air, and men’s snowboard halfpipe. Athletes returned iconic slopes of Aspen’s Buttermilk venue for one of the biggest weekends in winter sports.

Held in a jam style format, Rell Harwood took home the gold in women’s ski knuckle huck, improving on her second place finish in the same event in 2024. Harwood impressed the judges early and jumped to the top spot with a nose butter 900. Stifel U.S. Freeski teammate Marin Hamill earned her first X Games call up and finished fifth on the day with an impressive switch 360 tail press. Tereza Korabova (CZE) took home the silver and Anni Karava (FIN) the bronze.

Alex Hall also brought home the gold in the men’s knuckle huck. Hall showed us, as always, how creative he can be. His first trick of the night was a turtle roll, which impressed the judges and the crowd. Hall’s last hit of the night was a switch right 360 bring back, cementing his sixth X Games victory and 12th X Games medal. Defending gold medalist Colby Stevenson finished just off the podium in fourth as his switch1080 tail butter to nose butter wasn’t enough to bump Matej Svancer (AUT) and Juho Saastamoinen (FIN) from the podium. 

Next on deck was women’s big air and the X Games debut of the new “playoff and final” format. For all big air, slopestyle and halfpipe competition, eight competitors begin the competition with a series of preliminary runs. The field is cut in half, the scores are reset and the top-four athletes from the playoff round take two more runs, best score counts. Unable to compete this weekend due to injury, three-time X Games medalist and Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team’s own Hailey Langland took to the booth to commentate the exciting final. Austria’s Anna Gasser landed a switch triple cork 1260 to claim the gold. Japan’s Reira Iwabuchi buchi took home the silver and New Zealand’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott the bronze.

The highly anticipated men’s superpipe final was the final event of the night and featured three American’s in the field of eight riders. Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team’s Lucas Foster was the top American rider of the night, putting down his signature double ally-oop mctwist on the final hit of his first run. Foster’s first run earned him a spot in the final four and ultimately led to his best X Games finish of his carrer, ending the night just off the podium in fourth place. Joining Foster for the American’s was Okemo Mountain School’s Joey Okesson and X Games rookie Jason Wolle (USA). Wolle ended the night in seventh place and Okesson in eight, dawning a stylish leather jacket on the sub-zero degree Colorado night. Australia’s Scotty James took the win and tied American legend Shaun White’s record of total medal count in the pipe, earning his tenth medal in the discipline. The win marks James’ fourth consecutive gold, slowly creeping up on White’s record of six consecutive pipe wins and only one shy of White’s total pipe gold record of eight. Heavy hitters Yuto Totsuka and Ayumu Hirano rounded out the podium, Totsuka earning silver and Hirano the bronze.

Friday marks X Games Aspen’s biggest day of competition, featuring finals of women’s snowboard slopestyle, men’s ski slopestyle, women’s and men’s ski street style, women’s snowboard knuckle huck, women’s ski superpipe, women’s and men’sski big air and men’s snowboard knuckle huck. Live stream all the action live on Xgames.com starting at 1 p.m. ET or tune in at 10:30 p.m. ET on ESPN for primetime coverage of the first two days of action.

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The highly anticipated 2025 Laax Open proved to be one for the books, celebrating its 10th anniversary with a jam-packed Saturday schedule featuring both snowboard slopestyle and halfpipe competition. Chloe Kim took the win with Maddie Mastro in second on the women's side, while Red Gerard was third for the men. 

The pressure was on as 10 Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team athletes were set to compete in front of a crowd of 12,000 onlooking fans lining the sides of the infamous Crap Sogn Gion glacier. With both Laax Open rookies and seasoned veterans in the mix, it was sure to be an exciting day of action and the team stepped up to the plate, securing three podium finishes, three never-been-done tricks and a Laax Open record on the sport’s biggest stage.

SLOPESTYLE

First up was the men’s slopestyle semifinal and boy, did it deliver.

The Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team saw five athletes advance from Wednesday’s first round of slopestyle competition, four of which being past Laax Open slopestyle podium finishers: 2023 runner-up Dusty Henricksen, 2020 runner-up Red Gerard, 2019 champion Chris Corning and Sean Fitzsimons, whose clutch win at the 2022 Laax Open secured him a spot in the Peoyng-Chang Olympics. Joining the three veterans was 2023 junior world champion Brooklyn Depriest in his Laax Open debut.

Showing off his signature sleepy style, Dusty Henricksen punched his ticket to the final round with teammate Red Gerard, whose second run came in clutch after failing to put his first attempt down top-to-bottom.

Henricksen was first to drop for the men in finals and laced together a near-flawless run before clipping the final rail, earning him a score of 64.19 from the judges. A rail mistake on the top section of his second run would end Henricksen’s chances at another Laax Open podium, but still, the 2023 FIS slopestyle Crystal Globe winner was back riding in his first slope competition back from injury.

Gerard showed veteran composure in the Laax Open final and put on a show for onlooking fans, putting his first run down clean top-to-bottom in signature Red Gerard fashion. Complete with a signature hand drag over the rainbow rail and a frontside miller flip 540, the judges awarded Gerard’s technically savvy run an 86.22 that held the top spot for most of the competition, only to be beaten by Canada’s Cameron Spalding by a mere four tenths of a point late in the contest, securing Gerard the second spot on the podium.

15-year-old Lily Dhawornvej was the lone American qualifier for the women after earning her spot in the big show during Wednesday’s round of qualifications. Although unable to put down a run top-to-bottom, Dhawornvej gained invaluable experience competing on the sport’s biggest stage and continued her breakout season with an eighth place overall finish in Laax.

HALFPIPE

With slopestyle competition done and dusted, all eyes turned to the halfpipe for night finals under the lights - the signature and most anticipated event of the Laax Open.

Four Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team athletes were set to drop: two-time Olympic gold medalist and four-time Laax Open champion Chloe Kim, two-time Olympian and 2023 Laax Open medalist Maddie Mastro, two-time Olympian and 2017 Laax Open champion Chase Josey and 16-year-old Youth Olympic Games silver medalist Alessandro Barbieri.

Donning the FIS World Cup halfpipe leader yellow bib, Mastro was first to drop for the Americans and quickly set the tone for the night, nailing her signature double-crippler on her first hit and lacing together a near-flawless run. Mastro’s first run score of 88.75 put her in third place heading into run two, but the veteran was determined to best her 2023 Laax Open bronze medal. In one of the most insane runs the halfpipe world has ever seen with Mastro stomping the first-ever competition front dub cork 1080 and became the first woman to drop two dubs in one competition run en route to a second place finish at the 2025 Laax Open.

Teammate Chloe Kim was the only rider to best Mastro’s score and added another historic Never Been Done to her resume, becoming the first woman to land a cab dub 1080 in competition. Kim was all smiles in the corral after her first run heater that earned her the fifth Laax Open title of her career and a spot in the history books as the most decorated Laax Open athlete of all time.

“This means so much to me. I was really having a hard time in practice but really wanted to show off my cab double," said Kim in a post contest interview. "I’m so happy I was able to put it down. This was my first contest where I really just wanted to ride for fun and do what felt fun and it was so rewarding."

When asked about both her own and teammate Mastro's respective NBDs, she said, "Just wow. It's crazy to see the sport progress and I'm honored to be a part of it and inspire a new generation of female riders."

It was a dog-eat-dog world at the top of the pipe on the men’s side of competition and Josey and Barbierei held it down for the Americans in a field of heavy hitters. Josey was first to drop in the 12-man final and showed why he’s one of the most consistent riders on the World Cup circuit, putting down a technical run complete with a front-1260 on his final hit that earned him a solid score of 70.00 from the judges - his best of the two-run format. Making his first appearance in a Laax Open final, 16-year-old Barbieri was unable to lace together a full run top-to-bottom but showed he can hang with the best in the world and is one to watch on the World Cup circuit.

With three new pieces of hardware in tow, the Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team travels back to the states, with many heading straight to Aspen, Colorado for the 2025 Winter X Games, Jan. 23-25. X Games athletes will be joined in Aspen by the rest of the team the following week for another round of World Cup competition with the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix and Visa Big Air presented by Toyota.

RESULTS

Slopestyle
Women
Men

Halfpipe
Women
Men