The 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics were snowboarding's wildest Games in years — and the medal table told the story.

Japan dominated the park and pipe events, winning four of six golds and appearing on all six podiums. Three would-be three-peaters — Ester Ledecka, Anna Gasser and Chloe Kim — were denied historic third straight titles, though Kim still battled through a torn labrum to earn silver. And 17-year-old South Korean sensation Gaon Choi, whose rise was shaped in part by Kim’s support and U.S. training connection, delivered one of the defining upsets of the Games by toppling her mentor under the lights in Italy.

Elsewhere, Zoi Sadowski-Synnott fell just short of defending her slopestyle crown but still walked away with a record fifth career Olympic medal. Austria's Alessandro Haemmerle and Benjamin Karl both defended their Olympic titles, with Karl doing it at 40 to become the oldest Olympic snowboarding medalist ever. Scotty James came as close as ever to ending his Olympic gold drought, but it still wasn’t enough.

And for the U.S., the bottom line was stark: the Americans left Italy without a single snowboarding gold for the first time since the sport debuted at Nagano in 1998.

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Medal table

In one of the most emotional finish of the Games, 17-year-old South Korean Gaon Choi crashed on her first two runs, then delivered a 90.25 on her final attempt to overtake mentor Chloe Kim for gold.

Kim, who had torn the labrum in her left shoulder just weeks earlier, had the last run of the night and a chance to make history as the first snowboarder ever to win three straight Olympic golds in any event — a feat not even Shaun White managed to accomplish — but landed slightly low and fell on a cab double cork 1080 to finish with 88.00 for silver.

"I cried because I thought I wouldn't be able to compete," Choi said. "But the thought kept coming back to me: 'You can do this. You have to go on.'"

Kim found Choi after and pulled her in for a hug. The two have been close since Choi met Kim at a 2017 Olympic test event in PyeongChang. Choi became the first South Korean woman to win an Olympic snowboarding gold and, at 17 years, 101 days, the youngest Olympic snowboarding champion ever, breaking Red Gerard's record.

Japan placed 3rd through 5th, with Mitsuki Ono taking bronze.

Women's Snowboard Halfpipe Medalists

🥇 Gaon Choi (KOR)
🥈 Chloe Kim (USA)
🥉 Mitsuki Ono (JPN)

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China's Su Yiming celebrated his 22nd birthday with the slopestyle gold medal he's been chasing since Beijing, where he earned silver.

Su's 82.41 edged Japan's Taiga Hasegawa (82.13) in an extremely tight final in Livigno.

American Jake Canter seized bronze with a clutch last run, nailing a double underflip off the cannon and a huge backside 1980 to score a 79.36 and return the U.S. to the men's slopestyle podium for the first time since 2018.

"I'm speechless right now. My dream came true," Su said.

PyeongChang 2018 champion Red Gerard went for it on his second run and went down trying to add a rotation to a backside 1800, finishing 6th on the strength of his first-run score. Canadian Mark McMorris, who had won three straight Olympic bronzes in the event, fell twice on frontside 1800 attempts and ended up 8th — his first Olympic slopestyle podium miss ever.

Men's Snowboard Slopestyle Medalists

🥇 Su Yiming (CHN)
🥈 Taiga Hasegawa (JPN)
🥉 Jake Canter (USA)

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Yuto Totsuka of Japan put down what may be the most progressive halfpipe run in Olympic history, opening with back-to-back triple cork 1440s and finishing with a pair of double corks to score a 95.00 and hold off Australia's Scotty James.

James, who had called his Olympic gold quest the "elephant in the room" in a documentary, scored a 93.50 but fell trying to upgrade his final hit to a 1620 on his last-chance run and took silver.

"If I was to lose to anyone, Yuto was the one," James said.

Ten of 12 finalists attempted or landed a triple cork, just four years after Ayumu Hirano was the only rider to throw the trick in Beijing. Japan's Ryusei Yamada, 19, landed bronze, while Hirano himself finished 7th.

James' silver made him the oldest men's halfpipe medalist in Olympic history at 31, surpassing Shaun White, who watched from the base in his first Olympics as a spectator since 2002.

The U.S. missed the men's halfpipe podium for the second straight Games.

Men's Snowboard Halfpipe Medalists

🥇 Yuto Totsuka (JPN)
🥈 Scotty James (AUS)
🥉 Ryusei Yamada (JPN)

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Japan's dominant park and pipe showing came full circle when 19-year-old Mari Fukada claimed women's slopestyle gold, giving the country its fourth snowboarding gold of the Games.

Fukada, who had ranked 7th in qualifying, dialed back her second run and posted a perfect 10.00 on a switch backside 1260 she missed on her first run to increase her score to 87.83.

New Zealand's Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, dropping last and sitting in 4th place, came agonizingly close to defending her title — posting a ridiculous jump line — but came off early on a lipslide pretzel 270 out and finished with an 87.48 for silver, her fifth career Olympic medal, the most in snowboarding history.

Murase added bronze, her second medal of the Games.

Anna Gasser, 34, finished 10th in what's likely her final Olympic contest, capping a career that fellow competitors honored afterward.

Sixteen-year-olds Jess Perlmutter and Lily Dhawornvej represented the U.S. and finished 6th and 11th. Upon event completion, the Americans officially left Italy without a snowboarding gold for the first time since Nagano 1998.

Women's Snowboard Slopestyle Medalists

🥇 Mari Fukada (JPN)
🥈 Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (NZL)
🥉 Kokomo Murase (JPN)

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Japan announced its intentions early, going 1-2 in the very first snowboarding final of the Games.

Kira Kimura, making his Olympic debut, put down a massive third-run switch backside 1980 to score a 90.50 — the highest individual score of the night — and finish with 179.50 points to claim gold. His teammate Ryoma Kimata took silver with a score of 171.50. China's Su Yiming, the defending Olympic champion, earned bronze and his third career Olympic medal.

Seventeen-year-old American Ollie Martin was sitting in podium position with nine riders to go — all while competing with a broken arm — but was just edged out and finished 4th. Top qualifier Hiroto Ogiwara of Japan fell on all three attempts, including a wild glory-run 2160 attempt, and finished 12th.

Men's Snowboard Big Air Medalists

🥇 Kira Kimura (JPN)
🥈 Ryoma Kimata (JPN)
🥉 Su Yiming (CHN)

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Kokomo Murase of Japan upgraded her Beijing bronze all the way to gold, pairing a first-run backside triple cork 1440 with a pristine frontside triple 14 on her final run to overtake New Zealand's Zoi Sadowski-Synnott. Murase had a back triple 1620 — a trick she became the first woman ever to land in competition at January's X Games — waiting in her back pocket, but never needed it.

Sadowski-Synnott, who fell on her first run and recovered beautifully to stomp two big attempts, took silver for the second Olympics in a row, giving her a fourth career medal. The New Zealand team honored her with a haka on the snow afterward. Two-time defending gold medalist Anna Gasser of Austria, 34, finished 8th in what she called her likely final Olympic big air.

Women's Snowboard Big Air Medalists

🥇 Kokomo Murase (JPN)
🥈 Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (NZL)
🥉 Yu Seung-Eun (KOR)

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Men's Snowboard Cross: Haemmerle goes 2-for-2

Austrian Alessandro Haemmerle successfully defended his Olympic gold. He followed in the footsteps of the only other Olympians who've won the title: American Seth Wescott and Frenchman Pierre Vaultier, who both won back-to-back Olympic golds.

The big final came down to a rematch of Haemmerle’s race against Canada’s Eliot Grondin at the Beijing Games, where Haemmerle won gold and Grondin took silver. They repeated the same results this time, with Grondin just barely crossing the finish line behind Haemmerle.

Americans Nick Baumgartner and Faye Thelen were the only five-time Olympians in their respective fields and both finished 7th after crossing the finish line 3rd in the small final. The two were later paired together for the mixed team event, where they were eliminated in the quarterfinals.

Men's Snowboard Cross Medalists

🥇 Alessandro Haemmerle (AUT)
🥈 Eliot Grondin (CAN)
🥉 Jakob Dusek (AUT)

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Women's Snowboard Cross: Australia wins first SBX medal

Josie Baff won Australia’s first Olympic gold in women’s snowboard cross after blistering through her races.

Each rider in the suspenseful big final was speeding for the podium, but Baff held them off with her early lead. Czechia’s Eva Adamczykova, who returned to the Olympics after starting a family, earned silver. Michela Moioli of Italy slid into 3rd after recovering from a hard fall during training.

Adamczykova wasn’t the only rider who returned to the sport after giving birth. Frenchwoman Chloe Trespeuch and American Faye Thelen also became new mothers since the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

Women's Snowboard Cross Medalists

🥇 Josie Baff (AUS)
🥈 Eva Adamczykova (CZE)
🥉 Michela Moioli (ITA)

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Mixed Team Snowboard Cross: Great Britain wins first SBX medal

Great Britain’s Huw Nightingale and Charlotte Bankes were victorious in the mixed team event, earning Great Britain's first Olympic snowboarding gold medal.

Mixed Team Snowboard Cross Medalists

🥇 Great Britain Team 1: Huw Nightingale and Charlotte Bankes
🥈 Italy Team 1: Lorenzo Sommariva and Michela Moioli
🥉 France Team 2: Loan Bozzolo and Lea Casta

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Men's PGS: Karl defends gold

Roland Fischnaller said he pushed too hard after a mistake at the start of the course, causing him to miss a gate and not finish.

Instead, it was Austrian Benjamin Karl who pulled ahead in the big final to successfully defend his Olympic title — just 0.19 seconds ahead of Kim Sang-Kyum of South Korea. He proved that he was still at the top of the field 16 years after earning PGS silver at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Karl broke American Nick Baumgartner’s record for the oldest Olympic snowboarding medalist at 40 years, 3 months and 23 days (Baumgartner was 40 years, 1 month and 26 days when he won Olympic gold in the mixed team snowboard cross contest).

Men's Parallel Giant Slalom Medalists

🥇 Benjamin Karl (AUT)
🥈 Kim Sang-Kyum (KOR)
🥉 Tervel Zamfirov (BUL)

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Women's PGS: Ledecka denied three-peat

The snowboard parallel giant slalom (PGS) contests opened with back-to-back shockers: Both reigning world champions and 1st-place qualifiers, Czechia's Ester Ledecka and Italy's Roland Fischnaller, were eliminated during the quarterfinal races in their respective contests.

Ledecka, the two-time Olympic gold medalist, was denied a three-peat during her race against Austrian Sabine Payer, who later sped to Olympic silver.

Czech teammate Zuzana Maderova gained an early lead over Payer to win the Olympic title in women’s PGS.

Austrian Claudia Riegler, 52, became the oldest athlete to compete in a snowboarding event. She was eliminated in the Round of 16.

Women's Parallel Giant Slalom Medalists

🥇 Zuzana Maderova (CZE)
🥈 Sabine Payer (AUT)
🥉 Lucia Dalmasso (ITA)

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