Voisin wins gold in X Games slopestyle

HAFJELL RESORT, Norway ­— Two-time Olympian Maggie Voisin came away from this past weekend’s X Games Norway with a pair of medals.

The Whitefish resident won silver in the big air competition on Saturday,then followed that up with the gold medal in slopestyle on Sunday.

Voisin came into this weekend’s competition with a total of five X Games medals, including the only gold ever won by a U.S. woman in slopestyle (claimed in 2018 in Aspen). She was also the only U.S. woman ever to medal in big air, having grabbed her first medal in the event in Norway in 2017. Now she’s medaled in both of those events twice.

On Sunday, Voisin started with a technical, clean run to kick things off. She threw down back-to-back 900s on the last two jumps of the course on her second run and moved into first place. She fell on her first crack at the double cork 1260 trick on run No. 3, but held onto the top spot and finished out her day with another consistent run.

Instead of a traditional scoring system, the X Games has been using a jam format approach and ranks competitors based on overall impression, and Voisin’s consistency throughout the day served her well. At the end of the competition she held the top of the leaderboard while a pair from Switzerland, Mathilde Gremaud and Giulia Tanno, finished second and third, respectively.