2012 Winter X Games: Nick Goepper Leads Men's Ski Slopestyle Elimination

The 2012 Winter X Games gave out its first gold medal to Kaya Turski in the women's ski stopestyle on Thursday afternoon. The men ran the ski slopestyle elimination round earlier in the day and Nick Goepper took first place with this run:

Goepper starts with a switch double and eventually goes on to include a double cork 1260 followed by a high mute grab and adds a double cork mute grab that ends with a Japan grab. He lands perfectly and receives a 93.33 score on his first run, which was the best run of the day in the elimination round by one full point.

At 17, Goepper is the only rookie and the youngest competitor in the field.

Rank	Name	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best
1	Nick Goepper	93.33	56.33	89.66	93.33
2	Tom Wallisch	84	92.33	62.33	92.33
3	Bobby Brown	88.33	91	88	91
4	Andreas Håtveit	77	89	42.66	89
5	Russ Henshaw	82	84.66	88.33	88.33
6	PK Hunder	69.66	74.66	88	88
7	Gus Kenworthy	14	86	87.33	87.33
8	Alex Schlopy	67	87	87	87
9	Sammy Carlson	83	82.33	65.33	83
10	JF Houle	27.66	82.66	27.33	82.66
11	Jacob Wester	75.66	81	37	81
12	Henrik Harlaut	80	41	45.33	80
13	Elias Ambühl	64	51	78.33	78.33
14	Jossi Wells	16.33	19.66	77.66	77.66
15	Alexis Godbout	72.33	53	55.66	72.33
16	Phil Casabon	24.33	0	24.33	24.33