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Anna Gasser's best moments: The tricks that gave her Big Air queen status
From gymnast to double Winter Games champion and all-time Big Air World Cup winner, Anna Gasser is one of the most influential freestyle snowboarders of her time. Relive the moments that made history.
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What a career snowboarding queen Anna Gasser has carved out to date. Despite only really getting on a board less than 15 years ago, the Austrian has become one of the all-time great female freestylers, boasting records and list of world-first tricks that will truly stand the test of time.
Victory on home soil at the Big Air Kreischberg in Austria on January 11, 2025, saw Gasser break another record – 10 Big Air World Cup wins.
That's now 20 Big Air World Cup podiums, 13 career World Cup wins and her 31 World Cup podiums to date for Gasser in a career of big air and slopestyle that also includes two world championship titles, a pair of Olympic Winter Games gold medals and more victories in the biggest snowboarding contests around the globe.
On top of setting a new benchmark in Big Air World Cup wins in Kreischberg, at 33-years-old Gasser is now also the oldest winner in FIS Snowboard Park and Pipe World Cup history.
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Anna Gasser – The Spark Within
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2013 - Cab Double Cork 900
What a start to her freestyle snowboarding career. Gasser celebrated her World Cup debut in January 2013, and by November 2013, she had already put everyone else in the shade. She was the first woman to stand a Cab Double Cork 900 - the first exclamation mark for the snowboarder, who was to cause a furore in the years to come.
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2015 - the first medal
Gasser proved her strong nerves when she won her first medal at a major event. And it wasn't just any World Championships; it was her home World Championship on the Kreischberg. In the third run of the slopestyle competition, she conjured up a brilliant run in the Styrian snow and skied to a silver medal.
Anna Gasser in action
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2016-2018 - Anna Gasser dominates the world elite
From 2016 to 2018, the Carinthian turned the snowboard competitions into Gasser festivals. She dominated her competitors in both slopestyle and big air and won many important contests and World Cup stages. Gold (2016) and silver (2017) in Big Air at the Winter X-Games in Aspen, gold in Slopestyle and bronze in Big Air at the X-Games Norway 2017. In the same year, Gasser also crowned herself Big Air World Champion at the Snowboard World Championships in Sierra Nevada with the highest score of 100 points and secured the overall Big Air World Cup two years in a row. In November 2017, the then-26-year-old became the first female snowboarder to be honored as 'Sportswoman of the Year' in Austria.
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2018 - Gold to the power of two
Gasser achieved something extraordinary in 2018: she won the big air gold double - both at the Winter X Games in Aspen and at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, she jumped in a league of her own. Gasser won gold medals in the two most important competitions in her sport, making her an icon of female snowboarding.
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2019 - Cab Double Cork 1260
Snowboarding is not just about medals and victories - it's also about developing the sport. And Gasser has repeatedly set new standards in this specialized discipline. During video filming in Obergurgl, she became the first woman to achieve a Cab Double Cork 1260 after a long injury break - in the same year, she won gold again in Big Air at the X-Games Norway in Fornebu.
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Anna Gasser's Cab Double Cork 1260
Anna Gasser did it again, ending her topsy-turvy season in style with a world-first Cab Double Cork 1260 in Obergurgl, Austria.
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2020 - Big Air gold at the X-Games Norway
The Big Air competitions at the X-Games Norway felt like a "home game" for Gasser. She was also unbeatable there in 2020 and won her third gold medal.
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2022 - Anna Gasser makes herself immortal
Gasser made sporting history in February 2022 - and how. It was certainly one of the most emotional moments of her career. Just one day after her partner Clemens Millauer broke his ankle during training at the Winter Games in Beijing, she was the defending champion in the big air competition. After two of three jumps, Gasser was in second place and knew that the silver medal was secure. But then she unleashed the Cab Double Cork 1260 in her final attempt and landed it perfectly. That jump made Gasser a two-time Winter Games champion - and immortal.
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2024 – Learning new tricks, literally
Gasser soaring through cloudy skies
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At the start of the 2024-25 season, for the first time the snowboarding superstar landed a new trick on the Stubai Glacier – a Cab 1260, which is a triple somersault with three and a half spins around its own axis. She passed another milestone by finishing third at the FIS Big Air World Cup in Beijing, China. Gasser added another level to her new trick, debuting a Cab Triple Cork 1260 with Drunk Driver.
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2025 – Breaking more big air records
Although Gasser had mastered the Cab Triple 1260 Drunk driver during training – becoming the first woman to ever land one – she hadn't managed to put one down during the heat of competition until Big Air Kreischberg. There, in front of an adoring home crown she stomped it during her first of two runs in the final, scoring a event-high 93.00 points from the judges for the historic trick.
Gasser then followed up with a Back Double Cork 1080 Melon in run two, which was more than enough to put her atop the Kreischberg podium for the third time in her career, ahead of young guns Reira Iwabuchi of Japan and Britain's Mia Brookes.
More importantly, the win handed her that record-breaking 10th Big Air World Cup win, proving that the now veteran's still very much the Big Air Queen leading up to her planned retirement from competition after the Milano Cortina 2026 Games.
Gasser doesn't have many World Cups left but she's still on top
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I’m not going to go for it much longer. This World Cup was probably the last in big air for me on home soil.
"This one is very special. The level of the girls is so great right now and to still be able to keep up with my younger competitors - it’s such a great time for me," said a delighted Gasser from the top of the podium. "I'm just relieved, happy and it’s kind of proof a little, right, to keep on going and I’m still on the right path.
"I’m not going to go for it much longer. This World Cup was probably the last in big air for me on home soil, because it’s only every two years and after the Olympics will be my final one. It means so much to be on top of the podium here for the last time in Austria."
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