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All rights reserved. To take some of the subjectivity out of this list of the greatest riders in X Games history, we started by counting up cold hard coins of the gold, silver, and bronze variety, starting with the top lists of Most X Games Snowboard Gold and Most X Games Snowboard Medals.

Twelve of the riders on this list - including seven women - made the top cut on both counts. The list includes some old-schoolers, some quiet medal hoarders who might surprise you and some others who won't surprise you at all, and doesn't include some very big names who just haven't stacked as many medals as you might have expected.

As with any list of this kind, we encourage you to argue with us and amongst yourselves. Get ready for a rematch between Scotty and Ayumu Hirano: Ayumu missed X Games Aspen due to injury after beating Scotty in the heaviest SuperPipe contest ever in , with a score of At X Games, Ayumu now owns 2 gold, 1 silver in SuperPipe that's one shy of making the top list for Most Snowboard Gold and Most Snowboard Medals, our baseline criteria , and at 20 years old, he's the future of the discipline.

He scored a The first rider ever to land a double alley-oop backside rodeo in the SuperPipe, Elena Hight sits at 16 on the Most Snowboard Medals list with 1 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze in SuperPipe.

She finally got her first gold at X Games Aspen , then retired from competition after X Games Aspen to pivot to backcountry splitboarding and big mountain riding with the Jones Snowboards team. She didn't waste any time making the transition: she starred in the film "Ode to Muir" riding California's Sierra Range with Jeremy Jones and in the all-female "Vision Nowhere," documenting a Japanese powder mission.

She's also a star of Jamie Anderson's film"Unconditional. With 2 gold, 2 silver in Slopestyle and 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze in Big Air, his 9 total medals put him at 9 on the Most Snowboard Medals List, while his 3 gold medals put him at 15 on the Most Snowboard Gold list.

The most beloved rider in snowboarding at the turn of the 21st century, he later came to regret and apologize for his status as "snowboarding's first super-pro" and has become a critic of X Games and the rest of the snowboarding and action sports industry over the years, which actually makes us love him even more. It's good to have some icons keeping us honest. A known jewelry lover, Silje doesn't own any meager silver or bronze medals; only the best will do.

She's been pushing progression with new tricks like her Cab , and most recently topped the podium in Big Air at X Games Norway in front of a home crowd. She retired from competition in The first woman to land a triple, with her Cab triple underflip in November , Anna Gasser has been at the forefront of women's progression and now owns 2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze in Big Air and 1 Slopestyle gold from X Games Norway The whole world's been taking notice: she won TransWorld Snowboarding's Rider of the Year and Reader's Choice titles in both and She missed some competitions due to injury in and has yet to bring the triple to competition, but we'll almost certainly see it in Aspen in January: she was back on top of the Big Air podium at X Games Norway in August and has been lighting up Instagram with big tricks in the prelude to the winter season.

Norwegian rider Torstein Horgmo won Big Air gold as a rookie at X Games Aspen with a corked backside and went on to become one of the single biggest influencers in Big Air, with 3 gold, 2 silver to show for it. He was the first rider to land a triple cork spin, from a jump in Folgefonna, Norway, and the first to bring a triple of any kind to X Games, with a triple backflip in his gold medal Big Air run at X Games Aspen He last competed at X Games in , but the Shredbots video empire he co-founded with Mark McMorris and Eero Ettala continues to drive progression in snowboarding on every front.

Frank Bourgeois and his filmers, brothers William and Charles Demers, have won the three most recent X Games Real Snow video competitions, between , and took silver in they also won the Fan Favorite vote in each of those four years.

Three gold gives Frank the incredible distinction of being the only rider on the Top 20 Most Snowboard Gold list who has never actually competed on-site at an X Games event. In doing so, he used the run that gave him a perfect score last year. His first hit off the foot pipe walls reached 24 feet of amplitude, breaking the X Games record of 23 feet.

He followed that with back-to-back double corks, threw in a backside double McTwist and finished with a frontside double cork to score a That's what my thought process was at the top, or I was hoping it would be looking at the venue and what the other riders were doing," White said. It's not the easiest thing to accomplish.

It was a great run. The 's just an anomaly of the sport. I wasn't shooting for that, but it got pretty close. Snowboard team, and resides in California. She started snowboarding at just four-years-old, and started competing at age six. When she was eight, Kim moved to Geneva, Switzerland; after spending third and fourth grade abroad, Kim and her family returned home to California, where she resumed training, and competing.

Earlier in the competition, she took on a brutal wipe out on the halfpipe, leaving her bloodied, bruised, and on the brink of pulling out of the competition. And, I am really glad I made that decision. Clark made a bit of history, herself, on Saturday.