Gold medalist China's Su Yiming celebrates his win in the men's snowboarding slopestyle finals at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Livigno, Italy, Wednesday. AP-Yonhap
LIVIGNO, Italy — Su Yiming of China won the gold medal in men’s slopestyle snowboarding at the Winter Olympics on Wednesday.
Su collected his fourth career medal and his second of these Games on his 22nd birthday.
Taiga Hasegawa of Japan took silver and American rider Jake Canter claimed the bronze.
Su’s first of three runs that earned him 82.41 points proved enough after no rival was able to better that score.
Su, a former child actor, won gold in big air and silver in slopestyle at the Beijing 2022 Games. Last week, he took bronze in big air also in the Italian Alps.
The Livingo slopestyle course consists of three rail elements and three jumps. Judges score riders on their creativity and execution of tricks and their routine as a whole. Riders got three chances to perform their routines with only their best score counting.
The women’s slopestyle final is later on Wednesday.
Source: Korea Times News
