Winter X Games IX
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Winter X Games IX were held from January 29, 2005 to February 1, 2005 in Aspen
Aspen, Colorado
The City of Aspen is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the city population was 5,804 in 2005...

, Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

. They were the 4th consecutive Winter X Games
X Games
The X Games is a commercial annual sports event, controlled and arranged by US sports broadcaster ESPN, which focuses on action sports. The inaugural X Games was held in the summer of 1995 in Rhode Island....

 to be held in Aspen. Television coverage of Winter X Games XI was broadcast on ESPN
ESPN
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....

 and ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

, primarily hosted by Sal Masekela
Sal Masekela
Selema Mabena "Sal" Masekela is an American television host, sports commentator, actor, and singer.-Biography:...

 and Todd Harris
Todd Harris
Todd Harris is a play-by-play announcer for ESPNU college football coverage and Ultimate Fighting Championship airing on Versus.Prior to those duties, he was the lead play-by-play announcer for ABC and ESPN's coverage of the Indy Racing League's IndyCar Series...

.

Disciplines

Disciplines at the 9th Winter X Games were:
  • Moto X
  • Skiing
    Skiing
    Skiing is a recreational activity using skis as equipment for traveling over snow. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding....

  • Snowboarding
    Snowboarding
    Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the U.S.A...

  • Snowmobiling
  • Ultracross

Moto X

Men's Best Trick
Place Athlete Score
Gold Brian Deegan
Brian Deegan
Brian Deegan is the name of:*Brian Deegan , South Australian political activist and former magistrate*Brian Deegan , professional Freestyle Motocross rider and off-road racer...

93.00
Silver Jeff Kargola
Jeff Kargola
Jeff "Ox" Kargola was an American professional Freestyle Motocross rider. He was a member of the Metal Mulisha FMX team....

92.20
Bronze Dustin Miller 91.60

Skiing

Men's Ski Cross
Place Athlete Time
Gold Reggie Crist
Silver Zach Crist
Bronze Enak Gavaggio
Enak Gavaggio
Enak Gavaggio is a French freestyle skier. He represented France at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.-References:...



Women's Ski Cross
Place Athlete Time
Gold Sanna Tidstrand 55.097
Silver Karin Huttary
Karin Huttary
Karin Huttary is an Austrian freestyle skier who won a silver medal at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2009 in ski-cross. Although an Austrian she was once a member of the Swedish ski team, but switched to ski-cross and will compete for Austria at the 2010 Winter Olympics.- External...

55.385
Bronze Magdalena Jonsson 55.662


Men's Ski Slopestyle
Place Athlete Score
Gold Charles Gagnier
Charles Gagnier
Charles Gagnier is a Canadian freeskier. He was born on July 19, 1985 in Victoriaville QC.He is best known for inventing the octograb, a trick that consists of grabbing one ski's tail with the right hand and the nose of the other ski with the left hand. His most famous trick is the Octograb...

92.66
Silver Tanner Hall
Tanner Hall
Tanner Hall , of Kalispell, Montana is a freeskier.-Biography:In 2002 Tanner Hall co-founded the freeride ski company Armada Skis with skier JP Auclair and photographer Chris O'Connell...

91.00
Bronze Jon Olsson
Jon Olsson
Jon Olsson born in Mora, Sweden is a professional freeskier and alpine ski racer.Olsson is known for his invention of several new double flips, including a D-spin 720 into a flatspin 540 , a switch double rodeo 1080 , a double flatspin 900 , and a switch cork 720 to flatspin 540 .Olsson made his...

87.00


Men's Ski SuperPipe
Place Athlete Score
Gold Simon Dumont
Simon Dumont
Simon Francis Dumont is a U.S. freestyle skier.-Skiing:Dumont is notable as one of the best freestyle skiers in the world today. He is known for his amplitude in half-pipe competitions, airing easily up to 20 feet out of the pipe, and doing superman double fronts...

92.66
Silver Tanner Hall
Tanner Hall
Tanner Hall , of Kalispell, Montana is a freeskier.-Biography:In 2002 Tanner Hall co-founded the freeride ski company Armada Skis with skier JP Auclair and photographer Chris O'Connell...

91.00
Bronze Jon Olsson
Jon Olsson
Jon Olsson born in Mora, Sweden is a professional freeskier and alpine ski racer.Olsson is known for his invention of several new double flips, including a D-spin 720 into a flatspin 540 , a switch double rodeo 1080 , a double flatspin 900 , and a switch cork 720 to flatspin 540 .Olsson made his...

87.00


Women's Ski SuperPipe
Place Athlete
Gold Grete Eliassen
Grete Eliassen
Grete Eliassen is a Norwegian freestyle skier. She won a bronze medal in Slopestyle at the 2011 Winter X Games XV in Aspen, Colorado, behind Kaya Turski and Keri Herman.-References:...

Silver Sarah Burke
Sarah Burke
Sarah Burke is a Canadian freestyle skier who grew up in Midland, Ontario, Canada. She now resides in Whistler, British Columbia.-Skiing career:...

Bronze Kristi Leskinen
Kristi Leskinen
Kristi Leskinen is an American freestyle skier. She appeared on the cover of Powder magazine's Photo Annual in 2004. She grew up in Uniontown, PA, near Seven Springs Mountain Resort and Hidden Valley ski resorts. She was ranked #90 on the FHM 100 Sexiest Women of 2005...


Snowboarding

Men's Snowboard Cross
Place Athlete Time
Gold Xavier de le Rue
Xavier de Le Rue
Xavier de Le Rue is a French snowboarder who competes in snowboard-cross. He competed for France at the 2006 Winter Olympics, but did not advance to the quarterfinals. At the FIS Snowboarding World Championships 2009 he won a silver medal. He is set to compete for France at the 2010 Winter Olympics...

Silver Seth Wescott
Seth Wescott
Seth Benjamin Wescott is an American snowboarder. He is a two-time Olympic champion in the snowboard cross.-Life and career:Wescott was born in Durham, North Carolina, and lives in Carrabassett Valley, Maine...

Bronze Marco Huser


Women's Snowboard Cross
Place Athlete Time
Gold Lindsey Jacobellis
Lindsey Jacobellis
Lindsey Jacobellis is an American snowboarder from Stratton, Vermont.At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Jacobellis won the silver medal in Women's Snowboard Cross's Olympics debut...

1:01.102
Silver Erin Simmons
Erin Simmons
Erin Simmons is a Canadian snowboarder, specializing in the snowboard cross event.Simmons made her World Cup debut in December 2001 at Whistler, BC...

Bronze Karine Ruby
Karine Ruby
Karine Ruby was a French snowboarder and Olympic champion. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano...



Men's Snowboard Slopestyle
Place Athlete Score
Gold Shaun White
Shaun White
Shaun Roger White is an American professional snowboarder and skateboarder. He is a two-time Olympic gold medalist. He rides regular stance, twelve and negative three degrees on his board.-Early life:Shaun White is an Irish American...

93.00
Silver Danny Kass
Danny Kass
Daniel "Danny" Kass is an American professional snowboarder.He was born in Vernon Valley, NJ.Danny grew up in New Jersey where he began his climb into snowboarding history at the age of twelve...

90.33
Bronze Travis Rice
Travis Rice
Travis Rice is an American professional snowboarder. He is #13 on Snowboarder magazine’s list of the Top Twenty Most Influential Riders, He has been considered "the Paul Revere" of the big mountain freestyle movement....

87.00


Women's Snowboard Slopestyle
Place Athlete Score
Gold Janna Meyen 91.33
Silver Silvia Mittermueller
Silvia Mittermueller
-Personal life:Hailing from Germany, Silvia now spends most of her year in the USA where she trains and puts together film parts.She is one of the strongest competitors on the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour and also is highly revered for her video parts in movies such as "No Correct...

86.00
Bronze Natasza Zurek 80.33


Men's Snowboard SuperPipe
Place Athlete Score
Gold Antti Autti
Antti Autti
Antti-Matias Antero Autti is a Finnish snowboarding star who shot to fame when he defeated big-name talents Danny Kass, Andy Finch, and Shaun White in the Men's Superpipe at the 2005 Winter X Games to claim the gold...

93.00
Silver Andy Finch
Andy Finch
Andrew Joseph "Andy" Finch is an American snowboarder. His accomplishments include winning the overall U.S. Grand Prix Halfpipe Title in 2003 and 2004, taking first place in the Arctic Challenge in Norway in April 2004, winning the Vans Triple Crown in February 2004, winning the O’Neill Snowboard...

92.00
Bronze Danny Kass
Danny Kass
Daniel "Danny" Kass is an American professional snowboarder.He was born in Vernon Valley, NJ.Danny grew up in New Jersey where he began his climb into snowboarding history at the age of twelve...

90.33


Women's Snowboard SuperPipe
Place Athlete Score
Gold Gretchen Bleiler
Gretchen Bleiler
Gretchen Bleiler is an American professional halfpipe snowboarder. She currently resides in Aspen, Colorado and is married to Chris Hotell.-Career:...

89.00
Silver Doriane Vidal
Doriane Vidal
Doriane Vidal is a French snowboarder and Olympic medalist. She received a silver medal in halfpipe at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....

88.00
Bronze Hannah Teter
Hannah Teter
Hannah Teter is an American snowboarder from Belmont, Vermont. She is an Olympic champion, having won the gold medal in halfpipe at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy. She also won bronze at the 2005 FIS World Championships at Whistler, British Columbia, and has six World Cup victories...

86.66

Snowmobiling

Snocross
Place Athlete
Gold Blair Morgan
Blair Morgan
Blair Morgan is a multi-time CMRC Canadian National championship-winning motocross racer who currently races for Ski-Doo Racing. He is also a multi-time World Snocross snowmobile champion and a 5-times X-Games gold medalist. Blair is a fan-favorite in the sport for his sheer speed and determination...

Silver Tucker Hibbert
Bronze Steven Martin

Ultracross

Men's Combined Ultracross
Place Athlete
Gold Marco Huser/Eric Andersson
Eric Andersson
Eric Andersson is a Swedish motorcycle speedway rider. Andersson rode one heat in 2007 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden, when he replaced injured Wiesław Jaguś in Heat 19.- Speedway Grand Prix results :- World Championships :...

Silver Xavier de le Rue
Xavier de Le Rue
Xavier de Le Rue is a French snowboarder who competes in snowboard-cross. He competed for France at the 2006 Winter Olympics, but did not advance to the quarterfinals. At the FIS Snowboarding World Championships 2009 he won a silver medal. He is set to compete for France at the 2010 Winter Olympics...

/Davey Barr
Davey Barr
Davey Barr is a Canadian freestyle skier currently residing in Whistler, British Columbia. Davey Barr is a member of the Canadian national ski cross team....

Bronze Nate Holland
Nate Holland
Nate Holland is an American snowboarder.Holland won a gold medal in Snowboard Cross at the 2007 Winter X Games XI in Aspen, Colorado. He won another gold medal at the 2008 Winter X Games XII, beating Markus Schairer in the finals...

/Eric Archer
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