The United States’ Julia Marino claimed the first X Games gold medal of her career today after beating compatriot and reigning Olympic champion Jamie Anderson to the women’s snowboard slopestyle title in Aspen in Colorado ©Getty Images

The United States’ Julia Marino claimed the first X Games gold medal of her career today after beating compatriot and reigning Olympic champion Jamie Anderson to the women’s snowboard slopestyle title in Aspen in Colorado.

Marino became the first woman to land a cab double underflip in X Games slopestyle competition on her way to registering a winning score of 94.66 points. 

That was 3.33 more than Anderson, who claimed her fifth consecutive X Games slopestyle silver.

Great Britain’s Katie Ormerod broke up what could have been an American podium sweep by posting a score of 80.33 points.

The US’s Hailey Langland, who thrilled the crowd on Thursday (January 26) with her last-second big air victory, came fourth by scoring 73.66 points.

Victory for Marino came two days after she claimed her first-ever X Games medal, a bronze in the big air.

An X Games rookie this week, the 19-year-old has become the first woman in 17 years to win two medals at a single edition.

Anderson now has a dozen X Games medals to her name, including four golds and six silvers, making her the most decorated slopestyle rider in the history of the event.

Norway's Oystein Braaten won the men's ski slopestyle event ©Getty Images
Norway's Oystein Braaten won the men's ski slopestyle event ©Getty Images

Another home favourite triumphing today was Joe Parsons, who won the snowmobile freestyle event with a score of 93.00 points.

Fellow Americans Colten Moore and Levi LaVallee finished second and third with 92.00 and 90.00 respectively.

In the men’s ski slopestyle, Norway’s Oystein Braaten came out on top with a score of 94.33 points on his second run.

The US’s McRae Williams was second with 93.33 points, while Canada’s Alex Beaulieu-Marchand was third with 92.00.

Germany’s Lisa Zimmermann made history en route to winning the inaugural women’s ski big air, becoming the first skier from her country to claim an X Games medal and the first woman to land a switch, double-cork 1080 off the big jump.

Fourteen-year-old Estonian Kelly Sildaru finished a point shy of Zimmermann’s 85.00 and was followed onto the podium by Switzerland’s Giulia Tanno, who managed 82.00.

Success for Britain came in the men's ski big air as James Woods prevailed with 88 points.

Sweden's Henrik Harlaut posted the same but he had to settle for second place in front of Switzerland's Kai Mahler with 81.00 points. 

The US's Elena Hight took top honours in the women's snowboard superpipe with 87.33 points.

China's Xuetong Cai was second with 85.00 points and American Chloe Kim rounded out the top three with 81.00.