{"id":1778569,"date":"2026-02-18T15:26:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1778569"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:26:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:26:05","slug":"olympics-chinas-su-yiming-takes-gold-and-usas-jake-canter-secures-bronze-in-mens-snowboard-slopestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1778569","title":{"rendered":"[OLYMPICS] China\u2019s Su Yiming Takes Gold and USA\u2019S Jake Canter Secures Bronze in Men\u2019s Snowboard Slopestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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China\u2019s Su Yiming flies through the slopestyle course at the Milano Cortina Olympics. | Credit: CGTN Sports Scene Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Men\u2019s snowboard slopestyle just came to a close in the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, with the finals round concluding in Livigno, Italy, on Wednesday, February 18. <\/strong>The event saw twelve of the world\u2019s best slopestyle snowboarders battling it out on the sport\u2019s biggest stage for a chance to win an Olympic medal. Each rider was given three runs, with their best of the three used as their final score.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s Su Yiming would end up with the gold, with Japan\u2019s Taiga Hasegawa taking silver, and Team USA\u2019s Jake Canter coming home with bronze.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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China\u2019s Su Yiming celebrates after putting down a run. He would go on to win gold in men\u2019s snowboard slopestyle. | Credit: CGTN Sports Scene Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All it took for Yiming, who turned 22 on the same day, was his first run. <\/strong>He began his run with an amazing rail section, capped off by a switch frontside 180 into a backside rodeo 540 (one-and-a-half full rotations) on the cannon feature. He finished his run with a backside 1440 (four full rotations), earning him a score of 82.41. Yiming would lead the rest of the way, taking home the gold.<\/p>\n

This is Yiming\u2019s second medal of these Olympics, having won bronze in big air.\u00a0<\/strong>Yiming also took silver in slopestyle in Beijing in 2022, making today\u2019s gold the third Olympic medal of his career.<\/p>\n

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Japan\u2019s Taiga Hasegawa was all smiles after putting down a run. Hasegawa took silver in men\u2019s snowboard slopestyle. | Credit: Oakley Snowboarding Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Japan\u2019s Taiga Hasegawa would take the silver medal after earning a score of 82.13, just shy of Yiming\u2019s score.\u00a0<\/strong>Hasegawa finished his run off with a switch backside 1620 (four and a half rotations), followed by a backside double rodeo 1260 (three and a half rotations). Hasegawa\u2019s silver is Japan\u2019s fifth men\u2019s snowboarding medal of these Olympics.<\/p>\n

Team USA\u2019s Jake Canter, in his first Olympics, took home the bronze medal.\u00a0<\/strong>The Colorado native left it all up to his third run, performing in the clutch. On the final jump in the course, Canter put down a backside 1980 (five and a half rotations), earning a score of 79.36 and putting him on the podium. The 22-year-old celebrated as his score came in, and his spot on the podium was cemented by his impressive run.<\/p>\n

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Team USA\u2019s Jake Canter celebrates as he wins bronze in men\u2019s snowboard slopestyle. | Credit: Team USA Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Team USA riders Red Gerard and Oliver Martin were unable to podium in the event.\u00a0<\/strong>Gerard, after winning gold in slopestyle in South Korea in 2018, finished sixth overall. The 17-year-old Martin would finish in ninth overall.<\/p>\n

Men\u2019s slopestyle wraps up men\u2019s snowboarding at the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics.\u00a0<\/strong>These games saw riders throwing down, with lots of memorable moments. Men\u2019s snowboarding will return to the Olympic stage in 2030 with the games in the French Alps.<\/p>\n

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Japan\u2019s Taiga Hasegawa (left), China\u2019s Su Yiming (middle), and Team USA\u2019s Jake Canter made up the podium for men\u2019s snowboard slopestyle at the 2026 Winter Olympics. | Credit: Snowboard Magazine Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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China\u2019s Su Yiming flies through the slopestyle course at the Milano Cortina Olympics. | Credit: CGTN Sports Scene Facebook Men\u2019s snowboard slopestyle just came to a close in the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, with the finals round concluding in Livigno, Italy, on Wednesday, February 18. The event saw twelve of the world\u2019s best slopestyle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,267],"class_list":["post-1778569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-snowbrains-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1778569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1778569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1778569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1778569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}