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X Games and freeride

X Games Aspen 2026, and freeride's first FIS world champions.

Two kinds of competition sit outside the FIS World Cups: the X Games, run by their own organiser, and freeride, which is now a FIS discipline with its own world tour. Both finished their 2026 editions. This page gives the results the research recorded, and where the 2027 editions stand.

Status on 24 October 2026

  • X Games Aspen 2026: finished. Held from Friday 23 to Sunday 25 January 2026 at Buttermilk, Aspen, Colorado, with 18 competitions planned over three days, according to X Games pages seen in search.
  • FIS Freeride World Championships 2026: finished, on 3 February 2026 at Ordino Arcalis, Andorra. They were the first edition.
  • FIS Freeride World Tour 2026: finished, with the final at Verbier on 28 March 2026.
  • X Games 2027: upcoming; the dates were not found, and the venue rests only on a secondary report (see below).
  • Freeride World Tour 2027: upcoming; the calendar was not collected.

X Games Aspen 2026

The results below are from the X Games' own daily results pages, which group them by competition day. The organiser labels the days one, two and three; the event ran from 23 to 25 January.

Skiing

EventDay123
Men's ski slopestyleTwoLuca Harrington (NZL)Colby Stevenson (USA)Alex Hall (USA)
Men's ski knuckle huckTwoAlex Hall (USA)Colby Stevenson (USA)Tormod Frostad (NOR)
Women's ski big airThreeMathilde Gremaud (SUI)Kirsty Muir (GBR)Megan Oldham (CAN)
Women's ski slopestyleThreeKirsty Muir (GBR)Naomi Urness (CAN) and Gremaud, order unconfirmed
Men's ski superpipeThreeFinley Melville Ives (NZL)Not collectedNot collected
Women's ski superpipeNot givenZoe Atkin (GBR), per GB SnowsportNot collectedNot collected

The X Games page for day three orders the women's slopestyle silver and bronze one way in its text and the other way in its photo caption, so we do not say which of Urness and Gremaud was second. The women's superpipe win is reported by GB Snowsport, the UK governing body, which counted five British medals at Aspen 2026 as its biggest X Games haul.

Snowboarding

EventDay123
Women's snowboard slopestyleOneMia Brookes (GBR)Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (NZL)Not collected
Women's snowboard big airTwoKokomo Murase (JPN)Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (NZL)Mia Brookes (GBR)
Men's snowboard big airTwoHiroto Ogiwara (JPN)Rocco Jamieson (NZL)Kira Kimura (JPN)
Men's snowboard superpipeTwoScotty James (AUS)Haku Shimasaki (JPN)Shuichiro Shigeno (JPN)
Men's snowboard slopestyleThreeMark McMorris (CAN)Marcus Kleveland (NOR)Red Gerard (USA)
Men's snowboard knuckle huckThreeRene Rinnekangas (FIN)Halldor Helgason (ISL)Kleveland (NOR)
Women's snowboard knuckle huckThreeJessica Perlmutter (USA)Not collectedJasmine Baird (CAN)

The X Games page spells Murase's given name "Cocomo"; FIS spells it Kokomo. The women's snowboard superpipe and the men's ski big air results, and the remaining places marked above, were not collected.

X Games 2027. A June 2026 report seen in search says X Games will stay at Buttermilk through the 2028-29 season, with 2027 dates to come. It is a secondary source, so this is unconfirmed, and no 2027 dates were found.

Freeride: now a FIS discipline

FIS now publishes the freeride tour as the FIS Freeride World Tour, and it held the first FIS Freeride World Championships in 2026. Freeride is also reported to be joining the Olympic programme for 2030, with four events (women's and men's ski and snowboard), according to The Sports Examiner's account of the IOC Executive Board's decision; see French Alps 2030.

FIS Freeride World Championships, Andorra, 3 February 2026

The first FIS Freeride World Championships were held on the Basser Negre face (2,687 m) at Ordino Arcalis, Andorra.

Category123
Ski menBen Richards (NZL), 91.67Ugo Troubat (FRA), 86.00Kai Jones (USA), 76.67
Ski womenZuzanna Witych (POL), 80.33Justine Dufour-Lapointe (CAN), 76.33Molly Armanino (USA)
Snowboard menLiam Rivera (SUI), 84.33Victor de Le Rue (FRA), 80.00Michael Mawn (USA), 69.00
Snowboard womenMia Jones (USA), 84.00Noemie Equy (FRA), 81.33Nuria Castan Baron (ESP), 79.00

FIS says the women's ski competition was stopped early for low visibility with 11 of 16 riders finished, which met the two-thirds rule, so the results stood. A nations ranking introduced at Andorra put France first, the USA second and Canada third (FIS).

FIS Freeride World Tour 2026

The tour finished with the 30th edition of the Xtreme Verbier, on the Bec des Rosses at Verbier on 28 March 2026.

  • Final-day winners: Liam Rivera (SUI, snowboard men) with 96, which FIS calls the highest snowboard men's score ever; Ben Richards (NZL, ski men) with 96; Lou Barin (FRA, ski women) with 95; and Mia Jones (USA, snowboard women) with 87.
  • 2026 tour champions: Ben Richards (NZL), ski men; Lou Barin (FRA), ski women; Victor de Le Rue (FRA), snowboard men; Mia Jones (USA), snowboard women.

FIS says de Le Rue's title was his fifth, making him the first rider to reach five. Richards and Mia Jones won both the world championship and the tour in 2026.

Freestyle and snowboard park and pipe events under FIS, including the Olympic slopestyle, big air and halfpipe, are on Milano Cortina 2026 and World Cup 2025-26.

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