Winter X Games XVI explained

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

Skiing

Men's Slopestyle results

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Rank	Name	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Score
		93.66	59.66	96.00	96.00
		88.33	94.66	88.66	94.66
		87.66	90.66	92.00	92.00
4		89.33	46.00	36.66	89.33
5		85.00	89.00	20.00	89.00
6		77.66	86.33	86.00	86.33
7		65.33	39.66	83.33	83.33
8		33.66	40.00	77.00	77.00

Women's Slopestyle results

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Rank	Name	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Score
		88.33	88.66	95.00	95.00
		56.33	42.66	92.33	92.33
		90.00	86.33	14.66	90.00
4		87.00	60.33	45.33	87.00
5		39.00	85.00	86.00	86.00
6		48.00	81.33	63.00	81.33
7		69.33	46.00	77.66	77.66
8		25.00	71.00	30.66	71.00
9		32.00	29.00	51.00	51.00
10		28.66	38.00	39.00	39.00

Men's SuperPipe results

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Rank	Name	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Score
		86.33	93.00	77.66	93.00
		87.66	38.00	90.00	90.00
		85.33	38.66	89.66	89.66
4		28.00	89.33	26.66	89.33
5		79.33	86.00	88.33	88.33
6		82.66	74.00	87.00	87.00
7		80.33	33.33	23.00	80.33
8		25.33	38.33	DNS	38.33

Women's SuperPipe results

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Rank	Name	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Score
		87.33	93.66	15.66	93.66
		91.00	92.00	90.00	92.00
		21.66	36.33	90.66	90.66
4		89.00	82.33	87.00	89.00
5		80.66	87.00	87.66	87.66
6		86.33	10.00	29.66	86.33
7		22.33	13.66	70.66	70.66
8		18.00	24.00	49.00	49.00

Men's Big Air results

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Rank	Name	Two Highest Runs	Score
		44 + 44	88
		43 + 41	84
		44 + 39	83
4		37 + 35	72
5		40 + 32	72

Women's Skier X results

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Rank	Name	Time
		1:26.88
		1:27.79
		1:29.06
4		1:29.17
5		2:00.27
6		DNF

Men's Skier X results

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Rank	Name	Time
		1:20.59
		1:20.73
		1:20.81
4		1:21.01
5		1:21.45
6		1:21.93

Men's Mono Skier X results

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Rank	Name	Time
		1:51.98
		1:52.61
		1:53.14
4		1:53.57

Snowboarding

Men's Snowboard Street results

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Rank	Name	Score
		88
		83
		76
4		74
5		10

Women's Snowboard Slopestyle results

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Rank	Name	Score
		95.33
		82.66
		78.33
4		65.00
5		60.00
6		55.00
7		44.66
8		31.66
9		24.00
10		15.66

Women's SuperPipe results

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Rank	Name	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Score
		73.66	90.00	93.66	93.66
		65.00	80.66	83.66	83.66
		35.00	76.00	12.00	76.00
4		12.66	56.66	65.00	65.00
5		18.33	60.00	28.00	60.00
6		51.66	39.66	17.33	51.66
7		27.66	15.33	24.33	27.66
8		14.33	11.00	12.66	14.33

Men's Big Air results

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Rank	Name	Score
		80
		76
		76
4		76
5		68

Women's Snowboard X results

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Rank	Name	Time
		1:31.61
		1:33.34
		1:33.64
4		1:34.53
5		1:35.19
6		1:35.73

Men's Snowboard X results

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Rank	Name	Time
		1:27.57
		1:28.10
		1:33.27
4		1:56.82
5		2:46.44
6		3:10.80

Men's Slopestyle results

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Rank	Name	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Score
		90.00	93.00	8.33	93.00
		30.00	37.66	88.00	88.00
		60.00	70.00	86.00	86.00
4		83.66	47.66	21.66	83.66
5		26.00	40.66	79.33	79.33
6		29.00	78.66	17.00	78.66
7		38.66	63.00	37.00	63.00
8		28.33	24.00	29.66	29.66

Men's SuperPipe results

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Rank	Name	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Score
		94.00	71.33	100.00	100.00
		90.00	92.00	93.00	93.00
		73.33	68.66	86.00	86.00
4		33.33	83.00	13.33	83.00
5		78.66	29.66	41.33	78.66
6		70.00	9.33	18.66	70.00
7		60.00	10.00	7.33	60.00
8		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

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Rank	Name	Run 1	Run 2	Score
		92.66	93.66	93.66
		90.66	89.00	90.66
		87.00	86.00	87.00
4		80.00	82.66	82.66

Best Trick results

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Rank	Name	Score
		96.66
		89.66
		88.00
4		79.33
5		72.00
6		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

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20111226041122/http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2012/ Winter X Games XVI Page

Notes and References

1. Davon O'Neil, X Games expands globally, Xgames.com, May 1, 2012
2. News: Canada's Groenewoud wins X Games superpipe gold . . January 28, 2012.
3. Web site: Winter X Games Aspen 2012 schedules, news, results, video highlights and athletes - ESPN. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120130055249/http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2012/results?eventId=1027. 2012-01-30.
4. https://web.archive.org/web/20120201083143/http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2012/results?eventId=1023 Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Women's Ski Slopestyle - ESPN
5. Web site: Winter X Games Aspen 2012 schedules, news, results, video highlights and athletes - ESPN. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120131112543/http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2012/results?eventId=1025. 2012-01-31.
6. https://web.archive.org/web/20121228163405/http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2012/results?eventId=1024 Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Women's Ski SuperPipe - ESPN
7. https://web.archive.org/web/20120518163348/http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2012/results?eventId=1031 Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Ski Big Air - ESPN
8. https://archive.today/20120708035624/http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2012/results?eventId=1028 Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Women's Skier X - ESPN
9. https://web.archive.org/web/20120202204208/http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2012/results?eventId=1029 Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Men's Skier X - ESPN
10. https://archive.today/20120715023825/http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2012/results?eventId=1030 Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Mono Skier X - ESPN
11. https://web.archive.org/web/20120130055244/http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2012/results?eventId=1017 Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Snowboard Street - ESPN
12. https://web.archive.org/web/20120131112529/http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2012/results?eventId=1013 Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Women's Snowboard Slopestyle - ESPN
13. https://web.archive.org/web/20120202073237/http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2012/results?eventId=1018 Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Women's Snowboard SuperPipe - ESPN
14. https://archive.today/20120708085620/http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2012/results?eventId=1020 Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Snowboard Big Air - ESPN
15. https://web.archive.org/web/20120201083142/http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2012/results?eventId=1015 Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Women's Snowboarder X - ESPN
16. https://web.archive.org/web/20120201072221/http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2012/results?eventId=1016 Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Men's Snowboarder X - ESPN
17. https://web.archive.org/web/20120131112533/http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2012/results?eventId=1014 Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Men's Snowboard Slopestyle - ESPN
18. https://web.archive.org/web/20120201074832/http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2012/results?eventId=1012 Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Men's Snowboard SuperPipe - ESPN
19. https://web.archive.org/web/20120131134526/http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2012/results?eventId=1022 Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Snowmobile Freestyle - ESPN
20. https://web.archive.org/web/20120518163508/http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2012/results?eventId=1021 Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Results: Snowmobile Best Trick - ESPN