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Ended tonight the snowboarding competitions of the twentieth Winter X-Games were staged as usual in Aspen, Colorado.
Sunday 31 January 2016 5 minutes reading time
In the women's snowboard cross tenth win in this race of this important event & nbsp; after those of 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014 and 2015 for Lindsey Jacobellis, four times world champion of the specialty & agrave ;, the & rsquo; last l & rsquo; last year. In the final six champions of the Vermont burned for only 41 cents the Czech Eva Samkov & aacute ;, Olympic champion in charge of specialty & agrave; and gi & agrave; beaten by Lindsey two years ago of the Colorado snow.
Third place for the & rsquo; current leader and holder of the World Cup cross, the French Nelly Moenne-LOCCOZ, gi & agrave; third a year ago, the fourth & rsquo; Australian Belle Brockhoff, the US Faye Gulini fifth and sixth French Chloe Trespeuch. L & rsquo; only Italian representative, Michela Moioli, & egrave; finished off in the semifinals and then won the consolation final finishing in seventh place.
In the corresponding men's race first victory at the Winter X-Games for the & rsquo; Australian Jarryd Hughes that preceded his compatriot Alex Pullin, third as gi & agrave; in 2014 the German Konstantin Schad fourth l & rsquo; Austrian Alexander H ä; mmerle fifth the American Trevor Jacob, sixth leader of the World Cup, the Russian Nikolay Olyunin.
Here, too, one Italian representative, Omar Visintin, eliminated anch & rsquo; he in the semifinals and then the third, placement which earned him ninth place overall, won by the legendary Nate Holland in the final small, have secured seven times the cross to Aspen in 2006, 2007 , 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2014.
These are the results of other major snowboard competitions. The women's Slopestyle Friday & igrave; last if the & rsquo; & egrave; Spencer won the Canadian O & rsquo; Brien, the first success in this event, in front of the American Jamie Anderson, Olympic champion in charge of specialty & agrave ;, and Hailey Langland.
Always Fridays & igrave; other Canadian victory in & rsquo; America & rsquo; s Navy Men's Big Air with Max Parrot, who in 2014 made two finish in this race and in slopestyle, which preceded compatriot Mark McMorris and Japanese Yuki Kadono.
McMorris you & egrave; later remade in slopestyle triumphing over compatriot Sebastien Toutant and the Norwegian Bishop R ø island adding cos & igrave; a & rsquo; another victory to his collection at the Winter X-Games including those in the big air of 2012 and of 2015 and in slopestyle in 2012, 2013 and 2015.
In the men's superpipe success of American Matt Ladley compatriot Ben Ferguson and on & rsquo; Australian Scotty James, in what the US women's Chloe Kim repeated the triumph of & rsquo; last year by beating compatriot Arielle Gold and the Chinese Cai Xuetong.
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