The X Games are a series of extreme sports competitions broadcast by the ESPN networks. The X Games brand includes the Winter X Games, an event emphasizing winter action sports, including snowboarding, as opposed to skateboarding and BMX riding. The seventh edition of the Winter X Games became the first X Games to receive live television coverage.

1. The Most
Decorated
Snowboarders
in X Games
History

2. The X Games are a series of extreme sports competitions broadcast by the ESPN networks.
The X Games brand includes the Winter X Games, an event emphasizing winter action sports,
including snowboarding, as opposed to skateboarding and BMX riding. The seventh edition of
the Winter X Games became the first X Games to receive live television coverage. Over the
course of three decades a number of the world’s most talented snowboarders have won
medals at the Winter X Games.

3. Mark McMorris is not just the winningest male snowboarder in Winter X Games history, but
the most decorated X Games winter athlete of all time. The Canadian first competed at the
Winter X Games in 2011 at the age of 21. McMorris won a silver medal in the men’s slopestyle
competition, and narrowly missed out on a bronze in the men’s big air competition. He claimed
his first two gold medals at Winter X Games XVI the following year, becoming the first person
since Shaun White to achieve the feat. McMorris also joined Torstein Horgmo as the first
snowboarders to land triple corks in a big air competition.

4. McMorris defended his slopestyle gold in 2013 and added a pair of silver medals, but fell to
second place in the 2014 slopestyle competition. He incurred several injuries during the games
that hindered his performance at competitions off and on for several years. However, he
appeared at both X Games Aspen in 2015 and X Games Aspen 2016, winning a combined three
golds and one silver medal.

5. McMorris had his busiest X Games to date in 2017, competing at both X Games Aspen and X
Games Norway. Unfortunately, he failed to medal in the slopestyle competition in Norway,
though he won the event’s big air competition, while his performance in Aspen produced two
third place finishes. From 2018 to 2020 McMorris picked up six more medals, including
additional golds in slopestyle and big air.
Arriving at X Games Aspen in 2023, McMorris was tied with fellow snowboarder Jamie
Anderson for the most X Games winter discipline medals. He finished fourth in the big air
event, but defended his slopestyle gold from the year prior for his 11th X Games gold and
record setting 22nd medal. In addition to his slopestyle success at the X Games, he has won
bronze medals in slopestyle at the 2014, 2018, and 2022 Winter Olympics.

6. While McMorris set a new record for athletes at the Winter X Games, Jamie Anderson still
retains the record for most podium finishes for a female athlete. Anderson competed in her first
Winter X Games in 2006. She tied the event record by winning her 20th medal in 2022, a silver
in slopestyle. It was a hard fought finish for Anderson, who fell on her first two runs but scored
high on her third and fourth with a series of impressive tricks, including multiple 1080s.
Anderson earned seven of her eight golds in slopestyle. She has also won eight silvers and two
bronze medals in slopestyle, plus another silver and two bronze medals in big air.

7. Outside of X Games competition, Anderson is the first ever gold medalist in the women’s
slopestyle events at the Olympics. As of 2023, she is the only female snowboarder with
multiple gold medals at the Olympics.