Canadian Vincent Gagnier and German Lisa Zimmermann captured ski Big Air at Fenway Park titles on Friday night.
Gagnier, the 2015 Winter X Games ski big air champion, posted the two best scores of the night, earning the title with a combined 185 points. Scores were tallied combining a skier’s two best runs over three overall.
Gagnier’s highest-scoring trick included four ski grabs while spinning 1260 degrees.
Watch Gagnier’s three runs here. Full men’s results are here.
Zimmermann, the 2015 World champion in ski slopestyle, edged Swede Emma Dahlstrom by two tenths of a point. Zimmermann came up clutch in her final run, scoring a 90.60 on a switch 720-degree jump, going off the ramp backwards.
Watch Zimmermann’s three runs here. Full women’s results are here.
“I love the crowd, it’s like super motivating, and the music is super awesome,” Zimmermann said on NBCSN. “I was thinking all day just to go out and party.”
Athletes were competing on a 140-foot ramp dwarfing the nearby Green Monster, about four times taller than the histroic wall. Ski big air is not part of the Olympic program.
None of the three U.S. Olympic men’s ski slopestyle medalists competed in the final Friday night.
Olympic champion Joss Christensen pulled out before qualification with a sore knee. Silver medalist Gus Kenworthy and bronze medalist Nick Goepper bowed out in qualifying, with Kenworthy not taking all of his runs due to a heel bruise.
U.S. Olympic women’s ski slopestyle silver medalist Devin Logan placed sixth in the final.
NBC will air Big Air at Fenway coverage on Saturday at 5 p.m. ET.
