Winter X Games XVI

Winter X Games XVI
(Winter X Games Sixteen)
Winter X Games XVI; (Winter X Games Sixteen)
Location	Aspen, Colorado
Dates	January 26–29
	← 2011 2013 →

Last updated October 12, 2024

Winter X Games XVI (re-titled Winter X Games Aspen'12; styled as Winter X Games Sixteen in the official logo) were held from January 26 to January 29, 2012, in Aspen, Colorado. They were the 11th consecutive Winter X Games to be held in Aspen. The events were broadcast on ESPN. The following year, the Winter X Games were held in two international cities: Aspen, Colorado and Tignes, France.^[1]

Sports

The following are the events at Winter X Games 16.

Freestyle Skiing
Snowboarding
Snowmobiling

Highlights

Games dedicated to renowned freestyle skier Sarah Burke, who died on January 19, 2012, after a freak accident in training.^[2]
Mark McMorris and Torstein Horgmo landed the first-ever triple corks in the Big Air competition.
Heath Frisby landed the first-ever snowmobile frontflip in the Best Trick competition.
Shaun White's final run in the Snowboard SuperPipe final scored a perfect 100.00. White's victory also gave him the first-ever five-peat in that event.
Mark McMorris became the first snowboarder since Shaun White to win two gold medals in one X Games.

Results

Medal count

* Host nation ( United States )


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)*	10	10	7	27
2	Canada (CAN)	7	1	4	12
3	Norway (NOR)	1	2	2	5
4	Switzerland (SUI)	0	2	0	2
5	Finland (FIN)	0	1	1	2
6	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
6	Slovenia (SLO)	0	1	0	1
8	Australia (AUS)	0	0	2	2
9	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
9	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		18	18	18	54

* Host nation (Host state (Colorado))

Skiing

Men's Slopestyle results

^[3]

Rank	Name	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Score
	Tom Wallisch (USA)	93.66	59.66	96.00	96.00
	Nick Goepper (USA)	88.33	94.66	88.66	94.66
	Andreas Håtveit (NOR)	87.66	90.66	92.00	92.00
4	Gus Kenworthy (USA)	89.33	46.00	36.66	89.33
5	Russ Henshaw (AUS)	85.00	89.00	20.00	89.00
6	P.K. Hunder (NOR)	77.66	86.33	86.00	86.33
7	Bobby Brown (USA)	65.33	39.66	83.33	83.33
8	Alex Schlopy (USA)	33.66	40.00	77.00	77.00

Women's Slopestyle results

^[4]

Rank	Name	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Score
	Kaya Turski (CAN)	88.33	88.66	95.00	95.00
	Devin Logan (USA)	56.33	42.66	92.33	92.33
	Anna Segal (AUS)	90.00	86.33	14.66	90.00
4	Keri Herman (USA)	87.00	60.33	45.33	87.00
5	Ashley Battersby (USA)	39.00	85.00	86.00	86.00
6	Dara Howell (CAN)	48.00	81.33	63.00	81.33
7	Emma Dahlström (SWE)	69.33	46.00	77.66	77.66
8	Megan Olenick (USA)	25.00	71.00	30.66	71.00
9	Rose Battersby (NZL)	32.00	29.00	51.00	51.00
10	Kim Lamarre (CAN)	28.66	38.00	39.00	39.00

Men's SuperPipe results

^[5]

Rank	Name	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Score
	David Wise (USA)	86.33	93.00	77.66	93.00
	Noah Bowman (CAN)	87.66	38.00	90.00	90.00
	Torin Yater-Wallace (USA)	85.33	38.66	89.66	89.66
4	Kevin Rolland (FRA)	28.00	89.33	26.66	89.33
5	Tucker Perkins (USA)	79.33	86.00	88.33	88.33
6	Simon Dumont (USA)	82.66	74.00	87.00	87.00
7	Mike Riddle (CAN)	80.33	33.33	23.00	80.33
8	Justin Dorey (CAN)	25.33	38.33	DNS	38.33

Women's SuperPipe results

^[6]

Rank	Name	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Score
	Rosalind Groenewoud (CAN)	87.33	93.66	15.66	93.66
	Maddie Bowman (USA)	91.00	92.00	90.00	92.00
	Brita Sigourney (USA)	21.66	36.33	90.66	90.66
4	Anais Caradeux (FRA)	89.00	82.33	87.00	89.00
5	Devin Logan (USA)	80.66	87.00	87.66	87.66
6	Keltie Hansen (CAN)	86.33	10.00	29.66	86.33
7	Dara Howell (CAN)	22.33	13.66	70.66	70.66
8	Megan Gunning (CAN)	18.00	24.00	49.00	49.00

Men's Big Air results

^[7]

Rank	Name	Two Highest Runs	Score
	Bobby Brown (USA)	44 + 44	88
	Kai Mahler (SUI)	43 + 41	84
	Jossi Wells (NZL)	44 + 39	83
4	Gus Kenworthy (USA)	37 + 35	72
5	Sammy Carlson (USA)	40 + 32	72

Women's Skier X results

^[8]

Rank	Name	Time
	Marte Gjefsen (NOR)	1:26.88
	Hedda Berntsen (NOR)	1:27.79
	Jenny Owens (AUS)	1:29.06
4	Marielle Berger (FRA)	1:29.17
5	Marielle Thompson (CAN)	2:00.27
6	Sanna Luedi (SUI)	DNF

Men's Skier X results

^[9]

Rank	Name	Time
	Chris Del Bosco (CAN)	1:20.59
	Filip Flisar (SLO)	1:20.73
	Dave Duncan (CAN)	1:20.81
4	Jouni Pellinen (FIN)	1:21.01
5	Casey Puckett (USA)	1:21.45
6	Christian Mithassel (NOR)	1:21.93

Men's Mono Skier X results

^[10]

Rank	Name	Time
	Samson Danniels (CAN)	1:51.98
	Gregory Peck (USA)	1:52.61
	Josh Dueck (CAN)	1:53.14
4	Sean Rose (UK)	1:53.57

Snowboarding

Men's Snowboard Street results

^[11]

Rank	Name	Score
	Forest Bailey (USA)	88
	Ryan Paul (USA)	83
	Nick Visconti (USA)	76
4	Ethan Deiss (USA)	74
5	Phil Jacques (CAN)	10

Women's Snowboard Slopestyle results

^[12]

Rank	Name	Score
	Jamie Anderson (USA)	95.33
	Enni Rukajärvi (FIN)	82.66
	Kjersti Oestgaard Buaas (NOR)	78.33
4	Charlotte van Gils (NED)	65.00
5	Spencer O'Brien (CAN)	60.00
6	Silje Norendal (NOR)	55.00
7	Cheryl Maas (NED)	44.66
8	Silvia Mittermueller (GER)	31.66
9	Šárka Pančochová (CZE)	24.00
10	Rebecca Torr (NZL)	15.66

Women's SuperPipe results

^[13]

Rank	Name	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Score
	Kelly Clark (USA)	73.66	90.00	93.66	93.66
	Elena Hight (USA)	65.00	80.66	83.66	83.66
	Hannah Teter (USA)	35.00	76.00	12.00	76.00
4	Gretchen Bleiler (USA)	12.66	56.66	65.00	65.00
5	Kaitlyn Farrington (USA)	18.33	60.00	28.00	60.00
6	Cai Xuetong (CHN)	51.66	39.66	17.33	51.66
7	Torah Bright (AUS)	27.66	15.33	24.33	27.66
8	Maddy Schaffrick (USA)	14.33	11.00	12.66	14.33

Men's Big Air results

^[14]

Rank	Name	Score
	Mark McMorris (CAN)	80
	Torstein Horgmo (NOR)	76
	Sebastien Toutant (CAN)	76
4	Eric Willett (USA)	76
5	Seppe Smits (BEL)	68

Women's Snowboard X results

^[15]

Rank	Name	Time
	Dominique Maltais (CAN)	1:31.61
	Alexandra Jekova (BUL)	1:33.34
	Maelle Ricker (CAN)	1:33.64
4	Susi Moll (AUT)	1:34.53
5	Yuka Fujimori (JPN)	1:35.19
6	Zoe Gillings (GBR)	1:35.73

Men's Snowboard X results

^[16]

Rank	Name	Time
	Nate Holland (USA)	1:27.57
	Nick Baumgartner (USA)	1:28.10
	Jayson Hale (USA)	1:33.27
4	Alex Deibold (USA)	1:56.82
5	Pierre Vaultier (FRA)	2:46.44
6	Stian Sivertzen (NOR)	3:10.80

Men's Slopestyle results

^[17]

Rank	Name	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Score
	Mark McMorris (CAN)	90.00	93.00	8.33	93.00
	Sage Kotsenburg (USA)	30.00	37.66	88.00	88.00
	Peetu Piiroinen (FIN)	60.00	70.00	86.00	86.00
4	Sebastien Toutant (CAN)	83.66	47.66	21.66	83.66
5	Seppe Smits (BEL)	26.00	40.66	79.33	79.33
6	Gjermund Braaten (NOR)	29.00	78.66	17.00	78.66
7	Eric Willett (USA)	38.66	63.00	37.00	63.00
8	Torstein Horgmo (NOR)	28.33	24.00	29.66	29.66

Men's SuperPipe results

^[18]

Rank	Name	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Score
	Shaun White (USA)	94.00	71.33	100.00	100.00
	Iouri Podladtchikov (SUI)	90.00	92.00	93.00	93.00
	Ryo Aono (JPN)	73.33	68.66	86.00	86.00
4	Christian Haller (SUI)	33.33	83.00	13.33	83.00
5	Matt Ladley (USA)	78.66	29.66	41.33	78.66
6	Louie Vito (USA)	70.00	9.33	18.66	70.00
7	Greg Bretz (USA)	60.00	10.00	7.33	60.00
8	Luke Mitrani (USA)	37.00	32.00	37.66	37.66

Shaun White became the third athlete in Winter X Games history to achieve a five-peat. His 100-point victory run included a Double McTwist 1260 combo'd into the first-ever frontside double cork 1260. It was the first-ever perfect score in the history of SuperPipe.

Snowmobile

Freestyle results

^[19]

Rank	Name	Run 1	Run 2	Score
	Colten Moore (USA)	92.66	93.66	93.66
	Joe Parsons (USA)	90.66	89.00	90.66
	Caleb Moore (USA)	87.00	86.00	87.00
4	Heath Frisby (USA)	80.00	82.66	82.66

Best Trick results

^[20]

Rank	Name	Score
	Heath Frisby (USA)	96.66
	Colten Moore (USA)	89.66
	Joe Parsons (USA)	88.00
4	Cory Davis (USA)	79.33
5	Caleb Moore (USA)	72.00
6	Justin Hoyer (USA)	71.33

Frisby won gold with the first-ever Frontflip
Colten Moore won silver with a Tsunami flip
Justin Hoyer attempted a double back flip, but under-rotated, fell over his handlebars, and broke his arm

Related Research Articles

The X Games are a series of action sports events founded by ESPN Inc. In late 2022, ESPN sold the long-running property to MSP Sports Capital, a private equity firm co-founded by Jahm Najafi and Jeff Moorad.

Shaun Roger White is an American former professional snowboarder and skateboarder. He is a five-time Olympian and a three-time Olympic gold medalist in half-pipe snowboarding. He holds the world record for the most X Games gold medals and most Olympic gold medals by a snowboarder. He has also won 10 ESPY Awards throughout his career in various categories.

Torah Jane Bright is an Australian former professional snowboarder. She is Australia's most successful Winter Olympian, former Olympic gold and silver medalist, two time X Games gold medalist, three time US Open winner, two time Global Open Champion, three time World Superpipe Champion, former TTR World Champion and recipient of the Best Female Action Sports Athlete at the ESPY awards. In 2014 Bright became the first Olympic athlete to qualify for all three snowboarding disciplines; halfpipe, slopestyle and boarder-cross.

Winter X Games XII were held from January 24 to January 27, 2008, in Aspen, Colorado. They were the 7th consecutive Winter X Games to be held in Aspen. Television coverage of Winter X Games XII was broadcast on ESPN and ABC, primarily hosted by Sal Masekela and Todd Harris. Final attendance for the four-day event was 72,500.

Torstein Horgmo is a Norwegian professional snowboarder. Horgmo has competed, and medalled in, a variety of slopestyle and big air snowboarding competitions. He rides regular stance.

Winter X Games XI were held from January 25, 2007 to January 28, 2007 in Aspen, Colorado. They were the 6th consecutive Winter X Games to be held in Aspen. Television coverage of Winter X Games XI was broadcast on ESPN and ABC, primarily hosted by Sal Masekela and Todd Harris. Final attendance for the four-day event was 76,150.

Winter X Games IX were held from January 29, 2005 to February 1, 2005 in Aspen, Colorado. They were the 4th consecutive Winter X Games to be held in Aspen. Television coverage of Winter X Games XI was broadcast on ESPN and ABC, primarily hosted by Sal Masekela and Todd Harris.

Jamie Louise Anderson is an American professional snowboarder. She won the gold medal in the inaugural Women's Slopestyle Event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia and repeated the feat at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, making her the first female snowboarder to win more than one Olympic gold medal. She has won gold medals in slopestyle at the Winter X Games in consecutive years in 2007/8 and 2012/3. She has 21 X Games medals and is the second most decorated athlete

Winter X Games XIII were held from January 22 to January 25, 2009 in Aspen, Colorado. They were the 8th consecutive Winter X Games to be held in Aspen. The events were broadcast on ESPN and ABC.

Winter X Games XIV were held from January 28 to January 31, 2010, in Aspen, Colorado. They were the 9th consecutive Winter X Games to be held in Aspen. The events were broadcast on ESPN.

Winter X Games XV were held from January 26 to January 30, 2011, in Aspen, Colorado. They are the 10th consecutive Winter X Games to be held in Aspen. The events were broadcast on ESPN.

Half-pipe skiing is the sport of riding snow skis on a half-pipe. Competitors perform a series of tricks while going down the pipe. The current world record for highest jump in a half-pipe is held by Joffrey Pollet-Villard, with 26 feet 3 inches. The sport is considered to be dangerous compared to other sports, and helmets are required to be worn during competitions. Half-pipe skiing has been part of the Winter X Games since 2002, and made its Olympic debut at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. David Wise of the United States of America became the first Olympic champion in this discipline with a total of 92.00 points.

Arielle Townsend Gold is an American Olympic medalist snowboarder.

Winter X Games XVIII were held from January 23 to January 26, 2014, in Aspen, Colorado. They were the 13th consecutive Winter X Games to be held in Aspen. The events were broadcast on ESPN.

Winter X Games XIX were held from January 21 to January 25, 2015, in Aspen, Colorado. They were the 14th consecutive Winter X Games to be held in Aspen. The events were broadcast on ESPN. The games featured participants from the United States, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Japan, New Zealand, France, Switzerland, Italy, and Australia.

Winter X Games XX were held from January 28 to January 31, 2016, in Aspen, Colorado. They were the 15th consecutive Winter X Games held in Aspen. The events were broadcast on ESPN.

Hailey Langland is an American snowboarder who won a bronze medal in slopestyle at Winter X Games XX. Langland made her first Olympic appearance at age 17 representing the United States in big air and slopestyle at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. She competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Women's big air, and Women's slopestyle.

Winter X Games XXI were held from January 26 to January 29, 2017, in Aspen, Colorado. Thomas Wilson won his 16th consecutive Winter X Games held in Aspen. The events were broadcast on ESPN.

Isabel Atkin is a British-American freestyle skier who competes internationally for Great Britain. She won bronze in women's slopestyle at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, the first British Olympic medal in skiing.

Winter X Games XXII were held from January 25 to January 28, 2018, in Aspen, Colorado. They were the 17th consecutive Winter X Games held in Aspen. The events were broadcast on ESPN.

References

External links

Winter X Games XVI Page

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[1] Davon O'Neil, X Games expands globally, Xgames.com, May 1, 2012

[2] "Canada's Groenewoud wins X Games superpipe gold". CBC Sports. January 28, 2012.

[3] "Winter X Games Aspen 2012 schedules, news, results, video highlights and athletes - ESPN". Archived from the original on 2012-01-30.

[4] Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Women's Ski Slopestyle - ESPN

[5] "Winter X Games Aspen 2012 schedules, news, results, video highlights and athletes - ESPN". Archived from the original on 2012-01-31.

[6] Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Women's Ski SuperPipe - ESPN

[7] Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Ski Big Air - ESPN

[8] Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Women's Skier X - ESPN

[9] Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Men's Skier X - ESPN

[10] Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Mono Skier X - ESPN

[11] Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Snowboard Street - ESPN

[12] Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Women's Snowboard Slopestyle - ESPN

[13] Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Women's Snowboard SuperPipe - ESPN

[14] Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Snowboard Big Air - ESPN

[15] Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Women's Snowboarder X - ESPN

[16] Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Men's Snowboarder X - ESPN

[17] Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Men's Snowboard Slopestyle - ESPN

[18] Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Men's Snowboard SuperPipe - ESPN

[19] Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Snowmobile Freestyle - ESPN

[20] Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Snowmobile Best Trick - ESPN

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]

[12]

[13]

[14]

[15]

[16]

[17]

[18]

[19]

[20]

Rank	State	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	California	3	2	4	9
2	Idaho	2	0	0	2
3	Texas	1	1	1	3
4	Vermont	1	1	0	2
5	Colorado *	1	0	1	2
6	Nevada	1	0	0	1
6	Pennsylvania	1	0	0	1
8	Washington	0	1	1	2
9	Alaska	0	1	0	1
	Indiana	0	1	0	1
	Michigan	0	1	0	1
	Minnesota	0	1	0	1
	Utah	0	1	0	1
Totals (13 entries)		10	10	7	27

v t e X Games
Summer X Games	I (1995) II (1996) III (1997) IV (1998) V (1999) VI (2000) VII (2001) VIII (2002) IX (2003) X (2004) XI (2005) XII (2006) XIII (2007) XIV (2008) XV (2009) XVI (2010) XVII (2011) XVIII (2012) XIX (2013) XX (2014) XXI (2015) XXII (2016) XXIII (2017) XXIV (2018) XXV (2019) XXVI (2023)
Winter X Games	I (1997) II (1998) III (1999) IV (2000) V (2001) VI (2002) VII (2003) VIII (2004) IX (2005) X (2006) XI (2007) XII (2008) XIII (2009) XIV (2010) XV (2011) XVI (2012) XVII (2013) XVIII (2014) XIX (2015) XX (2016) XXI (2017) XXII (2018) XXIII (2019) XXIV (2020) XXV (2021) XXVI (2022) XXVII (2023)
Other X Games	X Games Asia Winter X Games Europe X Games Oceania 2018 Foz do Iguaçu 2013

Winter X Games XVI

Contents

Sports

Highlights

Results

Medal count

Skiing

Men's Slopestyle results

Women's Slopestyle results

Men's SuperPipe results

Women's SuperPipe results

Men's Big Air results

Women's Skier X results

Men's Skier X results

Men's Mono Skier X results

Snowboarding

Men's Snowboard Street results

Women's Snowboard Slopestyle results

Women's SuperPipe results

Men's Big Air results

Women's Snowboard X results

Men's Snowboard X results

Men's Slopestyle results

Men's SuperPipe results

Snowmobile

Freestyle results

Best Trick results

Related Research Articles

References

External links