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X Games Aspen 2025 Women’s Ski Big Air Top 3 Runs

The Big Air event is one of the highlights of X Games Aspen year after year. Riders compete on a 75-foot jump with eight men and eight women attempting to nail the best trick. After three runs with only the best score counting, four riders from each field move onto the finals. There, each athlete has two runs and the single highest score wins.

Skiers are judged on aggressive execution of maneuvers, degree of difficulty and variety of tricks, originality and style.


Familiar faces have come to dominate the Women’s Big Air scene as of late, but that was not the story tonight. 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 today 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 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 nonetheless excited storming into the finish.

The night belonged to Italian 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.

Watch the top podium runs and full event replay below!

🥇 Flora Tabanelli (ITA) 90.00

🥈 Grace Henderson (USA) 87.33

🥉 Tess Ledeux (FRA) 27.00

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