Snowboarding
Mark McMorris makes X Games history with 20th medal
Canadian surpasses Shaun White's snowboard medal haul with Big Air win in Norway, as Anna Gasser takes gold in the women's comp and home hero Marcus Kleveland wins the Knuckle Huck.
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Mark McMorris kept his nerve in Norway to overtake Shaun White's X Games medal record by winning the men's snowboard big air event on Saturday as Austrian Anna Gasser beat Miyabi Onitsuka to gold in the women's event.
Canadian McMorris came into the Hafjell weekend level on 18 medals with the American legend, however claimed the record on his own in scintillating fashion. The 26-year-old held off compatriots Max Parrot and Darcy Sharpe to win his ninth X Games gold to go alongside seven silvers and three bronze medals.
He then made it 20 on Sunday when he landed his eighth career silver behind Parrot in the snowboard slopestyle, with Norway's Ståle Sandbech third.
Anna Gasser
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Earlier on Saturday, in the women's Snowboard Big Air, Austrian Gasser produced a brilliant Front 10 Double to win her fourth X Games gold, with Japanese boarder Miyabi Onitsuka having to settle for silver and Canadian Laurie Blouin also on the podium with bronze.
Local hero Markus Kleveland, 20, returned to competition – after the big injury which almost finished his career – to triumph late on in the Snowboard Knuckle Huck and rack up the third Winter X Games gold of his young career.
Marcus Kleveland
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Swiss freestyle skier Mathilde Gremaud secured her fifth career X Games medal with a stylish silver on Sunday in the Ski Slopestyle behind American winner Maggie Voisin with Switzerland's Giulia Tanno third.
In the final event, Gremaud's Swiss compatriot Fabian Bösch edged out Sweden's Jesper Tjäder and Norwegian Øystein Bråten for Ski Slopestyle bronze, as Switzerland's Andri Ragettli won gold with American Alex Hall in silver.
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