China's Su Yiming celebrated his 22nd birthday by upgrading his Beijing silver to Milan Cortina gold in snowboard slopestyle Wednesday morning in Italy, earning the fourth Olympic medal of his career and his second podium of the 2026 Winter Games after a Day 1 big air bronze.
American Jake Canter seized bronze with a clutch run, nailing a double underflip off the canon and a huge final-jump backside 1980 to score 79.36. Japan's Taiga Hasegawa, the 2023 world champion in big air, took silver with an 82.13, just short of Su's winning 82.41.
PyeongChang Olympic champion Red Gerard of the U.S. came up just short of a redemption moment. Sitting 4th after two runs, the Coloradan via Ohio went down on a second-jump backside 1800 after trying to add an extra rotation. His first-run 76.60 held up for 6th.
Seventeen-year-old American Ollie Martin put together solid runs but couldn't clean up the opening rail feature, finishing 9th with a third-run 75.36.
Canadian Mark McMorris fell twice on frontside 1800 attempts and ended up 8th with a 75.50 — his first Olympic podium miss in the event's history. Winter X Games' most decorated athlete at 25 medals had won three straight Olympic bronzes at Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 2022.
Canter won his first World Cup last month in Aspen. This Olympic bronze returns the U.S. to the men's slopestyle podium after missing in 2022 following back-to-back golds in the first two runnings of the event.
Men's Snowboard Slopestyle Final
🥇 Su Yiming, China (82.41)
🥈 Taiga Hasegawa, Japan (82.13)
🥉 Jake Canter, United States (79.36)
4. Marcus Kleveland, Norway (78.96)
5. Romain Allemand, France (76.95)
6. Red Gerard, United States (76.60)
7. Dane Menzies, New Zealand (76.10)
8. Mark McMorris, Canada (75.50)
9. Ollie Martin, United States (75.36)
10. Cameron Spalding, Canada (75.13)
11. Ryoma Kimata, Japan (72.80)
12. Mons Roisland, Norway (46.50)