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X Games Aspen 2025 Full Recap, Highlight Videos and More

X Games Aspen 2025 Full Recap, Highlight Videos and More

Featured Image: Matt Power | Skier: Cassie Sharpe (center), Fanghui Li (left), Amy Fraser (right)


The sun has set on another mind-melting installment of X Games Aspen. This past weekend, we witnessed some of the world’s first-ever trick executions, former alternates become gold medal champs, beloved faces return to the podium, zero spins, triple corks, pretzels and so much more. There’s a lot to break down, but that’s what your friends here at FREESKIER are for.

We’ve compiled all the videos, results and takeaways from each event so you don’t have to scour the depths of the internet just to find your favorite X Games moments. There’s never been a more exciting time in freeskiing, and this weekend proved just that. Dive into each discipline below, and be sure to check out the full photo gallery as well.

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Women’s Big Air | Women’s Slopestyle | Women’s Street Style | Women’s SuperPipe | Women’s Knuckle Huck

Men’s Big Air | Men’s Slopestyle | Men’s Street Style | Men’s SuperPipe | Men’s Knuckle Huck

Full Photo Gallery


Women’s Big Air

Familiar faces have come to dominate the Women’s Big Air scene as of late, but that was not the story at X Games Aspen 2025. After Eileen Gu had to withdraw due to a hard crash while competing in Street Style, the event was truly up for grabs. There are plenty of heavy-hitting riders in the field, but it was an unlikely champion who walked away with the win.

In third place was the flying Frenchwoman Tess Ledeux. Her Slopestyle prowess is well known, but she was looking to make a name for herself in Big Air as well and succeeded. A textbook switch 1400 earlier in the night secured her spot in the finals, and while she wasn’t able to put down the final run she wanted, she still walked away with a well deserved bronze.

American skier Grace Henderson took home the silver medal. In her final attempt, Henderson came in clutch when it mattered. She stomped a left-side 1080 with a perfectly capped blunt grab to impress the judges and fans alike. Holding that blunt grab right on the tail of the skis is so difficult, as announcer and X Games gold medalist Maggie Voisin pointed out. Henderson made it look too easy, but was clearly over-the-moon storming into the finish.

The night belonged to Italian skier Flora Tabanelli, though. The 17-year-old set several records as the youngest skier at X Games Aspen 2025. She is the first Italian woman to win X Games gold, and she’s the first Italian man or woman to win gold in any Winter X Games discipline. Her career is off to a promising start, to say the least.

🥇 Flora Tabanelli (ITA) 90.00

🥈 Grace Henderson (USA) 87.33

🥉 Tess Ledeux (FRA) 27.00

Women’s Slopestyle

Women’s Slopestyle brought the heat as the last women’s ski event of X Games Aspen 2025. Tess Ledeux, Olivia Asselin, Anni Karava and Megan Oldham were the four riders who moved on to finals out of the original eight athletes. There were certainly a few surprises, with standout riders Rell Harwood and Ruby Star Andrews among those who weren’t able to put down the runs they’d envisioned.

The field was shaken up by the lack of Eileen Gu, who took a bad fall in Street Style and decided not to compete in other events. Gu had recently won the Slopestyle World Cup event in LAAX, marking her first World Cup Slopestyle win in three years.

In Women’s Ski Big Air, there was a sixty-point differential between second and third place. Slopestyle was a different story, with the top four finishers separated by just seven points. We saw Anni Karava back on the podium in third place. This marks her second third-place win of X Games Aspen 2025 after she claimed bronze in Women’s Knuckle Huck on Thursday afternoon.

Karava is certainly known for her technical abilities on rails, but it was her jump line performance that set her apart from the steep competition. She sealed the deal by stomping a right misty 7 Japan followed by a pristine mute double cork 1080.

Olivia Asselin secured the silver medal, making her return to the podium after winning gold in Women’s Street Style. She had a great recovery on the rail section, carrying ample speed into the jumps. Spinning left and right off the first two kickers, she came in switch to the final jump, sticking a giant switch 1080 to secure second place.

But it was Tess Ledeux who stole the show, grabbing her second medal of X Games Aspen 2025. Ledeux came out with a chip on her shoulder after not being able to put down her preferred final run in the Big Air event. She crushed the rail section with ease and stomped back-to-back doubles to secure her seventh X Games gold and 12th overall X Games medal in her career, making Ledeux the winningest female skier in X Games history.

Ledeux is now tied with Alex Hall and the legendary Tanner Hall for the second most X Games Ski medals ever. Ledeux and Alex Hall are now just two medals behind Henrik Harlaut for the record.

🥇 Tess Ledeux (FRA) 95.00

🥈 Olivia Asselin (CAN) 92.66

🥉 Anni Karava (FIN) 90.66

Women’s Street Style

Women’s Street Style brought the damn HEAT in Aspen. This is the first year the competition has been introduced to the X Games, and so far the reactions from fans and riders have been resoundingly positive. The event varies from Slopestyle, bringing in features influenced by street skiing. For example, this year’s course featured a staircase with a down-flat-down rail on one side and a down rail on the other, a massive wall ride, a canon rail, a tabletop and more. The jam session format and small course forced riders to pick one feature per lap, quickly heading back up for another go.

Marion Balsamo slid into third place and secured the bronze medal. She showcased pristine control and dialed footwork on the aforementioned rail features, lacing up different tricks on both the down flat down and flat rails. Balsamo was one of two Americans who landed on the podium in the event.

In second place was Bella Bacon. Bacon has had several injuries get in the way of her skiing in recent years, but it’s clear that her drive and focus have not been deterred in the slightest. Highlighted by a massive disaster 450 on the down rail and a creative two out from the cannon rail onto the wall ride, her run was loose but lit, in the best possible way.

Topping the podium in Women’s Street Style was Olivia Asselin. The Canadian has become a figure at the forefront of women’s freeskiing over the last few years, and for good reason. Asselin showcased the perfect balance between creative riding and technical ability, capping it all off by taking the last rail with speed and lacing a back 450 out.

🥇 Olivia Asselin (CAN)

🥈 Bella Bacon (USA)

🥉 Marion Balsamo (USA)

Women’s SuperPipe

Canada won the night in Women’s SuperPipe at X Games Aspen 2025. All eyes were on Cassie Sharpe, Svea Irving and Eileen Gu heading into this matchup. But after a bad crash in the Street Style event earlier, Gu had to back out of SuperPipe.

It was no easy battle, but Sharpe wedged out the win despite China’s Li Fanghui inching right behind her, missing her by less than two points. She stacked back-to-back right and left side 900s on her final run, and we have to give her massive style credit for throwing in that air to fakie mid-run.

Sharpe recently had a baby, but the Olympic gold medalist hasn’t let that slow her down in the slightest. After having a great comeback competition season so far, we are stoked to see Sharpe keep the momentum going with an X Games gold in her first trip back to the event since 2021.

Li Fanghui, the 21-year-old Chinese phenom, secured the silver medal with a blend of technical and stylish riding. She earned a score of 86.66, and with a bit more control in her final run, she likely would have overtaken Sharpe… but that day will have to wait! Amy Fraser, a fellow Canadian alongside Sharpe, took home the bronze with her controlled and technical skiing.

🥇 Cassie Sharpe (CAN) 88.33

🥈 Fanghui Li (CHN) 86.66

🥉 Amy Fraser (CAN) 84.66

Women’s Knuckle Huck

Year one of Women’s Ski Knuckle Huck in 2024 set the bar high—and to no surprise, year two was even better. As the first ski event of X Games Aspen 2025, the vibes were through the roof as the sun tucked behind the mountains in Pitkin County, Colorado. The eight women competing let the creative juices flow, as the judges rewarded out-of-the-box thinking.

The bronze medal went to Anni Karava, the freestyle rider from Finland. After filming a lot in the streets and with members of The Bunch, her unorthodox skiing was evident in the best way.

In second place it was Tereza Korabova who earned the silver medal. Last year she set a milestone as the first woman from the Czech Republic to compete in a trick discipline at the X Games. She came in 5th place in 2024 just missing the podium, but climbed her way up the ranks this year amongst tough competition.

In first place we saw a familiar face, Utah’s Rell Harwood. She’s one of the most prominent riders on a stacked Armada team, and that’s saying something. She earned bronze in Big Air and silver in Knuckle Huck last year at the X Games. This year, she was able to snag the top seat.

🥇 Rell Harwood (USA)

🥈 Tereza Korabova (CZE)

🥉 Anni Karava (FIN)


Men’s Big Air

The 2025 X Games Ski Big Air had two world firsts, it took a 93 or higher to get out of the playoff round and a brother and sister won their respective Big Air events in the same year. This event was electric immediately as Troy Podmilsak threw a 2160, the trick that won him X Games Gold in 2024, as his first trick in the playoff round. After that the rest of the playoff round was mind blowing, but after three runs, only Matej Svancer, Troy Podmilsak, Miro Tabanelli and X Games rookie Luca Harrington moved on to the final. This sent home huge names like Mac Forehand, Birk Ruud and Alex Hall even with Hall dropping one of the nastiest zero spins of all time as his opening trick.

Run one of the final started with a bang as Matej Svancer landed the world’s first switch tail butter triple cork 2160, which earned him a 96.33. This seat at the top was short-lived for Matej as Miro Tabanelli, for the second time in the contest, landed a double cork 2340 – another world’s first – which earned him a near perfect score of 98. With Miro seeded last to drop, he was in the driver’s seat to see if anyone could dethrone him with their second run.

After Matej Svancer’s world first, he decided to dedicate his second run to the people by landing a huge switch front flip, letting his previous 96.33 stand as his final score. Next, Luca Harrington hucked a perfectly capped tail grab triple cork 2160, solidifying his silver medal with a 97.

Troy Podmilsak then put it all on the line for gold, trying to one-up Miro’s 2340 by adding another flip, but he couldn’t hold on to the landing, cementing Miro Tabanelli as the X Games Gold Medalist. This also meant that Matej Svancer took home the bronze.

This event was a huge progression in the world of competitive freeskiing, with nearly every competitor pushing the limits of what was thought to be possible. Zero spins and switch front flips aren’t common in competitive Big Air events, but to see them on a stage like X Games is a sign that the sport is evolving both in and outside of competitions. With each of the skiers standing on the podium being under 21, the future of freeskiing seems to be in good hands.

🥇 Miro Tabanelli (ITA) 98.00

🥈 Luca Harrington (NZL) 97.00

🥉 Matej Svancer (AUT) 96.33

Men’s Slopestyle

The wonderful thing about X Games Aspen is that you never know what you’re going to get. We saw a few examples of this in Knuckle Huck, as Alex Hall and Rell Harwood earned gold with a few unsuspecting maneuvers under the lights. We’d be remiss without mentioning Juho Saastamoinen’s cocktail of a trick, blending a backslide, screamin’ seamen and bio flip into one.

Men’s Slopestyle delivered more surprises. Young Luca Harrington cruised into Aspen as an alternate for Slopestyle. With one call, the talented Kiwi was summoned to compete in the big event. Laying down a BEAUTIFUL line, he became only the second X Games rookie to ever win gold. The other person to do it? Colby Stevenson. Pretty good company to be in, if you ask us.

Harrington landed a triple 19 blunt yesterday during practice on the Big Air jump, and while he didn’t break that out in Slopestyle today, we should have seen it as an omen for what was to come.

It was the Swiss stud Andri Ragettli grabbing silver. Ragettli has become well known around the internet and freeski scene for his bewildering and creative training videos, and if we’ve learned anything, it’s that working on your balance in unorthodox ways seems to go miles for your skiing. Ragettli was dialed in the first half of the course, landing switch out of every rail feature.

Mac Forehand earned the bronze medal with a strong performance, coming in just two points behind Ragettli, and one point ahead of fourth-place finisher Konnor Ralph. Forehand closed out his run by stomping a switch triple 1620, taking it deep down the landing. He was the first rider in the finals to put together a completed run in the jump line.

🥇 Luca Harrington (NZL) 93.33

🥈 Andri Ragettli (SUI) 90.66

🥉 Mac Forehand (USA) 88.33

Men’s Street Style

Taking the course immediately after the women, the Men’s Ski Street Style field had a high bar to live up to. Max Moffat, Colby Stevenson, Andreas Håtveit and Mikkel BK comprised one heat, while Evan McEachran, Tucker Fitzsimons, Siver Voll and Alex Hall made up the other. The Street Style course was much more concise than the Slopestyle course, and riders had to choose each feature wisely with every run.

Third place went to Canadian Evan McEachran. Using the tabletop feature to his advantage, McEachran put together repeatedly impressive runs. The two-time Olympian and two-time X Games medalist is no stranger to the competition life. Seeing as this was the first time Street Style was featured, it’s fair to say he’s a quick learned.

Tucker Fitzsimons snagged the silver medal. Fitzsimons on the podium wasn’t a huge surprise, seeing as how the rail god has plenty of experience filming in the streets. He put on a clinic throughout the majority of his time on course, but it wasn’t enough to best the one and only Colby Stevenson.

Stevenson dropped hammer after hammer after just missing the podium in last night’s Men’s Knuckle Huck. He put on a stellar performance, winning over the judges by utilizing almost every feature in the course throughout his runs.

🥇 Colby Stevenson (USA)

🥈 Tucker Fitzsimons (USA)

🥉 Evan McEachran (CAN)

Men’s SuperPipe

This year’s Men’s X Games SuperPipe roster was stacked with heavy hitters like Aaron Blunk, Alex Ferreira, Nick Goepper, Birk Irving and Hunter Hess. After a wild two-run playoff round, only Alex Ferreira, Nick Goepper, Hunter Hess and X Games rookie Finley Melville-Ives survived to fight in the finals.

Alex Ferreira kicked off the SuperPipe finals with a mind-blowing run that shot him straight to the top of the leaderboard with a massive score of 90. But Nick Goepper came to battle – he unleashed an insane first run, capping it off with a right side 1080 into a switch Bio 9 that launched him into the lead with a 92.66.

With everything on the line in his final run, Alex Ferreira went absolutely huge, throwing down a right side 1620 with an opposite tail grab on his last hit. He stomped the run and fired up the crowd with his signature pole twirl. When the numbers dropped, Alex had landed a 92, just 0.66 points shy of the top spot. With Nick seeded last to drop and no one able to best his score, he had officially claimed his 2025 X Games SuperPipe Gold. It was time for a victory lap.

Back in 2023, Nick Goepper walked away from Slopestyle with three X Games gold medals and three Olympic podium finishes under his belt. After some time away from the sport, he announced he was back and would be making the switch to SuperPipe. Just 18 months later, in his second X Games SuperPipe appearance, he earned his fourth gold medal.

Goepper is now only the third rider ever to conquer both Slopestyle and SuperPipe. The last to do it was the legendary Tanner Hall over 15 years ago.

Alex Ferreira walked away with a silver medal, coming within just .66 points of X-Games gold. Hunter Hess rounded out an all-American podium with the bronze. We likely witnessed the start of an epic rivalry between Alex Ferreira and Nick Goepper, as these two are pushing the field like nothing we’ve seen before.

🥇 Nick Goepper (USA) 92.66

🥈 Alex Ferreria (USA) 92.00

🥉 Hunter Hess (USA) 85.66

Men’s Knuckle Huck

On the heels of a phenomenal Women’s Ski Knuckle Huck, the men took center stage in Aspen on night one of X Games. The roster of eight riders was stacked with names from around the globe. Tormod Frostad, Alex Hall, Mikkel Brusletto Kaupang (Mikkel BK), Matej Svancer, Jesper Tjader, Juho Saastamoinen, Colby Stevenson and Daniel Bacher brought the heat.

We saw a deep bag of tricks all around, ranging from insane double cork variations (looking at you Matej) to bewildering reverts and everything in between. Hell, we even got to see Man Ramp team up with Daniel Bacher for a run. What else could you ask for?

Third place went to Finnish rider Juho Saastamoinen. With the new 2024/25 Fischer Nightstick underneath him, he dazzled judges with arguably the most creative skiing of the night, even throwing in a bewildering final trick that blended a backslide, bio flip and screamin’ seamen into one. Matej Svancer took the silver medal. The Czech-Austrian skier only spun double corks. He certainly embodied the ‘spin to win’ mantra in the best way. It was wildly impressive to watch Svancer take every trick so deep into the landing and ride away with ease.

The gold medal went to none other than Park City’s Alex Hall. It was certainly a good evening for Utah, as fellow Park City rider Rell Harwood took gold in Women’s Ski Knuckle Huck. Hall demonstrated a complete mastery of air awareness, technical prowess and creativity. His tricks ranged from limited to more abstract, but every run was controlled and refined.

This marks his 12th X Games medal, tying him with Tanner Hall and putting him just two medals away from Henrik Harlaut’s record for most in XG ski history.

🥇 Alex Hall (USA)

🥈 Matej Svancer (CZE)

🥉 Juho Saastamoinen (FIN)


Photo Gallery

Images: Matt Power

Cassie Sharpe isn’t a regular mom, she’s an X Games gold medalist mom.
Svea Irving, the Queen of style putting on a show during the Women’s Superpipe Playoffs
China’s Fanghui Li earned her first X Games medal with a silver in Women’s Superpipe
Cassie Sharpe on her way to X Games Aspen gold
X Games Aspen 2025 Women’s SuperPipe podium
Evan McEachran throwing down in Men’s Slopestyle
Colby Stevenson gets creative on the Slopestyle course
Alex Hall taking advantage of the unique rainbow tube feature
Luca Harrington is the first X Games Aspen rookie to win gold since Colby Stevenson
Andri Tagettli earned the bronze medal in Men’s Slopestyle
Superman? No, that’s Mac Forehand, but close enough
Alex Hall greases the down rail during Men’s Slopestyle
Luca Harrington on top of the podium after Men’s Slopestyle
An unforgiving Street Style course took over many riders by surprise
One of the many tricks that earned Colby Stevenson his X Games Aspen Street Style gold medal
Men’s X Games Aspen 2025 Street Style podium
Grace Henderson attempts to secure a blunt grab in Women’s Big Air
17 year old Flora Tabanelli became the first Italian women to win X Games gold in this weekend’s Big Air event
Tess Ledeux is all smiles after earning bronze in Women’s Big Air
X Games SuperPipe silver medalist Fanghui Li’s massive send in Big Air
X Games Aspen 2025 Women’s Big Air podium

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