Days after her 19th birthday, Sandbach’s Mia Brookes won gold at the X Games in Aspen in the US state of Colorado.
The 19-year-old clinched victory in the women’s snowboard slopestyle.
Brookes secured victory in the women’s snowboard slopestyle with a score of 96.33.
She beat New Zealand’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, who took silver, and Kokomo Murase of Japan, who won bronze.
Holding the top spot throughout the competition, Brookes improved her score to a 96.33 in her final run to claim her second X Games gold medal and fourth overall in her second X Games appearance.
Zoi Sadowski-Synott (NZL) was sitting in last position going into her third run, then leapfrogged over Japanese rider Cocomo Murase (JPN) for second place.
Ms Murase nearly rode away with a triple cork 1440 on the final hit in run three, but was unable to complete the landing, and took bronze.
Ms Brookes’ final run was a Cab 270 front board to switch, half Cab onto the flat rail to backside 360 off, boardslide 270 out, frontside 360 frontside grab on the sharkfin jump, backside 1260 melon over the channel gap, Cab 1440 stalefish.
Both Ms Brookes and Ms Murase were competing in three disciplines: big air, slopestyle and knucklehuck.
Ms Brookes told X Games website: “It was really sick to win a second gold here. I did not expect it. I was just having the best time and obviously that led to best results.”
The result means that Ms Brookes has now secured two big wins this season after her victory at the Beijing Big Air World Cup in December.
She told the BBC: “It feels pretty great to win. I’m super hyped – wasn’t expecting it. “I just came in wanting to have a good time and we got there in the end.”
In the big air final, Ms Murase delivered a history-making performance, stomping the first backside 1620 triple cork (4.5 full rotations) ever landed by a woman in competition. Visibly emotional after the landing, she was met by a roaring crowd as she earned a near-perfect score of 96.66.
Six-time X Games gold medallists Zoi Sadowski-Synnott finished with silver, and Ms Brookes completed the podium with a bronze medal performance – her first big air medal and 13th overall X Games medal.
The snowboarder has been named in Team GB’s squad for next month’s Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina, where she will compete in both the slopestyle and big air events.
