The Chinese Su Yiming, silver medalist in slopestyle A week ago, became Olympic champion in big air snowboarding at the age of 17Tuesday at the Beijing Games.
With a cumulative score of 182.50 obtained thanks to two first high-level runs, the Chinese was quite well ahead of the Norwegian Mons Roisland (171.75 pts). The Canadian Max Parrot, who won in slopestyle, completes the podium (3rd, 170.25 pts).
Su allows China to win the first Olympic title in its history in snowboarding.