Winter X Games XI
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Winter X Games XI were held from January 25, 2007 to January 28, 2007 in Aspen
Aspen, Colorado
The City of Aspen is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the city population was 5,804 in 2005...

, Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

. They were the 6th consecutive Winter X Games
X Games
The X Games is a commercial annual sports event, controlled and arranged by US sports broadcaster ESPN, which focuses on action sports. The inaugural X Games was held in the summer of 1995 in Rhode Island....

 to be held in Aspen. Television coverage of Winter X Games XI was broadcast on ESPN
ESPN
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 and ABC
American Broadcasting Company
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, primarily hosted by Sal Masekela
Sal Masekela
Selema Mabena "Sal" Masekela is an American television host, sports commentator, actor, and singer.-Biography:...

 and Todd Harris
Todd Harris
Todd Harris is a play-by-play announcer for ESPNU college football coverage and Ultimate Fighting Championship airing on Versus.Prior to those duties, he was the lead play-by-play announcer for ABC and ESPN's coverage of the Indy Racing League's IndyCar Series...

. Final attendance for the four day event was 76,150.

Disciplines

Disciplines at the 11th Winter X Games were:
  • Skiing
    Skiing
    Skiing is a recreational activity using skis as equipment for traveling over snow. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding....

  • Snowboarding
    Snowboarding
    Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the U.S.A...

  • Snowmobiling

Skiing

Men and Women's Monoski Cross
Place Athlete Time
Gold Tyler Walker 84.868
Silver Kevin Connolly 84.930
Bronze Kees-Jan van der Klooster
Kees-Jan van der Klooster
Kees-Jan van der Klooster is a Paralympian athlete from Netherlands competing in alpine skiing events. In March 2001 he had a snowboard accident and broke his back. Since then he is paralysed from his waist down...

93.480


Men's Ski Cross
Place Athlete Time
Gold Casey Puckett
Casey Puckett
Paul Casey Puckett is an American alpine skier who competed from 1990 to 2006 and freestyle skier who has competed since 2008.-Alpine skiing:...

57.958
Silver Jack Fiala
Bronze Enak Gavaggio
Enak Gavaggio
Enak Gavaggio is a French freestyle skier. He represented France at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.-References:...



Women's Ski Cross
Place Athlete Time
Gold Ophelie David
Ophélie David
Ophélie David is a French freestyle skier specializing in ski cross, an event in which she is the reigning six-time world champion in, and has won four consecutive times at the Winter X Games as well as being ranked number one in the world in since 2004.David began her career as an alpine skier,...

65.367
Silver Valentine Scuotto
Bronze Meryll Boulangeat


Men's Ski Slopestyle
Place Athlete Score
Gold Candide Thovex
Candide Thovex
Candide Thovex , is a French professional skier.- Biography :Thovex was born in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, and grew up in the village of La Clusaz. Thovex learned to ski in the Aravis region of the French Alps. La Clusaz is where his childhood friends and girlfriend live and where he perfected his big...

95.00
Silver Sammy Carlson
Sammy Carlson
Sammy Carlson is an American freeskier specializing in slopestyle competitions. He was the first skier to execute a switch triple rodeo 1260 in July 2010 at Mount Hood.-External links:...

92.33
Bronze Colby West 90.00


Men's Ski SuperPipe
Place Athlete Score
Gold Tanner Hall
Tanner Hall
Tanner Hall , of Kalispell, Montana is a freeskier.-Biography:In 2002 Tanner Hall co-founded the freeride ski company Armada Skis with skier JP Auclair and photographer Chris O'Connell...

95.00
Silver Simon Dumont
Simon Dumont
Simon Francis Dumont is a U.S. freestyle skier.-Skiing:Dumont is notable as one of the best freestyle skiers in the world today. He is known for his amplitude in half-pipe competitions, airing easily up to 20 feet out of the pipe, and doing superman double fronts...

94.00
Bronze Peter Olenick 90.00


Women's Ski SuperPipe
Place Athlete Score
Gold Sarah Burke
Sarah Burke
Sarah Burke is a Canadian freestyle skier who grew up in Midland, Ontario, Canada. She now resides in Whistler, British Columbia.-Skiing career:...

90.00
Silver Grete Eliassen
Grete Eliassen
Grete Eliassen is a Norwegian freestyle skier. She won a bronze medal in Slopestyle at the 2011 Winter X Games XV in Aspen, Colorado, behind Kaya Turski and Keri Herman.-References:...

86.33
Bronze Jen Hudak
Jen Hudak
Jen Hudak is an American freestyle skier, specializing in the halfpipe and slopestyle events. She currently resides in Utah, where she skis and trains regularly.-External links:*...

66.33

Snowboarding

Men's Snowboard Best Trick
Place Athlete
Gold Andreas Wiig
Andreas Wiig
Andreas Ygre Wiig is a professional snowboarder. He rides regular.Andreas was born in Oslo but grew up in Asker. He made a name for himself when he won two gold medals at the 2007 and 2008 Winter X Games...

Silver Travis Rice
Travis Rice
Travis Rice is an American professional snowboarder. He is #13 on Snowboarder magazine’s list of the Top Twenty Most Influential Riders, He has been considered "the Paul Revere" of the big mountain freestyle movement....

Bronze Antti Autti
Antti Autti
Antti-Matias Antero Autti is a Finnish snowboarding star who shot to fame when he defeated big-name talents Danny Kass, Andy Finch, and Shaun White in the Men's Superpipe at the 2005 Winter X Games to claim the gold...



Men's Snowboard Cross
Place Athlete Time
Gold Nate Holland
Nate Holland
Nate Holland is an American snowboarder.Holland won a gold medal in Snowboard Cross at the 2007 Winter X Games XI in Aspen, Colorado. He won another gold medal at the 2008 Winter X Games XII, beating Markus Schairer in the finals...

64.796
Silver Xavier de le Rue
Xavier de Le Rue
Xavier de Le Rue is a French snowboarder who competes in snowboard-cross. He competed for France at the 2006 Winter Olympics, but did not advance to the quarterfinals. At the FIS Snowboarding World Championships 2009 he won a silver medal. He is set to compete for France at the 2010 Winter Olympics...

Bronze Seth Wescott
Seth Wescott
Seth Benjamin Wescott is an American snowboarder. He is a two-time Olympic champion in the snowboard cross.-Life and career:Wescott was born in Durham, North Carolina, and lives in Carrabassett Valley, Maine...



Women's Snowboard Cross
Place Athlete Time
Gold Joanie Anderson 71.387
Silver Lindsey Jacobellis
Lindsey Jacobellis
Lindsey Jacobellis is an American snowboarder from Stratton, Vermont.At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Jacobellis won the silver medal in Women's Snowboard Cross's Olympics debut...

Bronze Maëlle Ricker
Maelle Ricker
Maëlle Danica Ricker is a Canadian snowboarder who currently resides in Squamish, British Columbia. She won the Gold Medal in the snowboard cross event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, becoming the first Canadian woman to win a gold medal on home soil at the Olympics.-Career:As a young...



Men's Snowboard Slopestyle
Place Athlete Score
Gold Andreas Wiig
Andreas Wiig
Andreas Ygre Wiig is a professional snowboarder. He rides regular.Andreas was born in Oslo but grew up in Asker. He made a name for himself when he won two gold medals at the 2007 and 2008 Winter X Games...

89.66
Silver Jussi Oksanen 84.66
Bronze Shaun White
Shaun White
Shaun Roger White is an American professional snowboarder and skateboarder. He is a two-time Olympic gold medalist. He rides regular stance, twelve and negative three degrees on his board.-Early life:Shaun White is an Irish American...

83.33


Women's Snowboard Slopestyle
Place Athlete Score
Gold Jamie Anderson
Jamie Anderson (snowboarder)
Jamie Anderson is an American snowboarder from South Lake Tahoe.- Career :Jamie Anderson has built a reputation as the most solid Slopestyle rider in the business with her raw talent and exceptional style and versatility of tricks...

85.33
Silver Hana Beaman
Hana Beaman
Hana Beaman is an American professional snowboarder who resides in Big Bear Lake, CA and Salt Lake City, UT. She has competed in snowboarding since 1988. -Career:...

78.33
Bronze Chanelle Sladics 76.33


Men's Snowboard SuperPipe
Place Athlete Score
Gold Steve Fisher
Steve Fisher (snowboarder)
Steve Fisher also known as "The Fish" is an American professional snowboarder and the 2004 and 2007 Winter X Games Champion. He is currently ranked the #1 halfpipe rider in the United States by the USSA ranking system.-Childhood and early snowboarding career:Steve grew up in Saint Louis Park, a...

92.00
Silver Shaun White
Shaun White
Shaun Roger White is an American professional snowboarder and skateboarder. He is a two-time Olympic gold medalist. He rides regular stance, twelve and negative three degrees on his board.-Early life:Shaun White is an Irish American...

91.00
Bronze Mason Aguirre
Mason Aguirre
Mason Singer Aguirre is an American snowboarder. He competes in halfpipe, slopestyle and superpipe, but consistently places higher in halfpipe and superpipe competitions.-Career:...

90.66


Women's Snowboard SuperPipe
Place Athlete Score
Gold Torah Bright
Torah Bright
Torah Jane Bright is an Australian snowboarder. She turned pro at age 14 and finished fifth in snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy. She lives and trains in the area of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA...

94.66
Silver Gretchen Bleiler
Gretchen Bleiler
Gretchen Bleiler is an American professional halfpipe snowboarder. She currently resides in Aspen, Colorado and is married to Chris Hotell.-Career:...

91.00
Bronze Elena Hight
Elena Hight
Elena Hight is an American Olympic snowboarder.-Career:Hight started snowboarding in 1995 and competing in 2002. Her best World Cup finish was third in a halfpipe event in Spain in 2009....

88.00

Snowmobiling

Snocross
Place Athlete Time
Gold Tucker Hibbert 186.226
Silver Ryan Simons 186.543
Bronze T.J. Gulla 192.684


Snowmobile Freestyle
Place Athlete Score
Gold Chris Burandt 96.33
Silver Aleksander Nordgaard 93.66
Bronze Heath Frisby 89.33 (in consolation)
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