The Sharpe family lived up to its name at the Winter X Games, held in Aspen, Colo. from Jan. 22 to 26.
For starters, snowboarder Darcy Sharpe took home a pair of medals in his events, winning the Jeep Men's Snowboard Slopestyle contest for his first-ever X Games gold while taking second in the Jeep Rail Jam.
In the slopestyle, Sharpe came through on his fourth and final attempt to leap from eighth all the way to first, landing tricks such as a switchback 1280 and a frontside triple to knock off Mons Røisland and Red Gerard, while Mark McMorris took seventh. In the rail jam, Sharpe took second to Jesse Paul while holding off Sven Thorgren for silver. Craig McMorris, meanwhile, ended up seventh.
Sharpe's sister Cassie, meanwhile, scored a third-place finish in the ski superpipe, landing a pair of 900s, in her first action of the 2019-20 season. Estonia's Kelly Sildaru came away with the win while fellow Canadian Rachael Karker also hit the podium in second.
"I was really happy with how Rachael and Cassie skied today and certainly having both on the podium was a great result," head coach Trennon Paynter said in a release.
Cassie also took part in a new X Games initiative this year, competing in the Special Olympics unified skiing event alongside Amanda Leonard.
"We didn't win the race but we won for having the most fun!! So honored to have been a part of the inaugural @SpecialOlympics Unified Skiing event at @xgames and to have been paired with this amazing woman, Amanda," Sharpe posted to Instagram after the contest.
Both Sharpes are based in Whistler.
Canadian ski and snowboard athletes took home five other medals at the X Games. Snowboarder Max Parrot, just over a year after announcing he'd been diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma (which he revealed in July he had beaten), took home the win in The Real Cost Men's Snowboard Big Air while Mark McMorris took second. With the silver, McMorris equalled American Shaun White with his 18th X Games medal.
In the Jeep Men's Ski Slopestyle, Evan McEachran scored a second-place finish behind Colby Stevenson and ahead of Fabian Boesch, while Laurie Blouin also claimed a silver in the Jeep Women's Snowboard Slopestyle, with Jamie Anderson snagging gold and Kokomo Murase went home with bronze. Lastly, Brendan MacKay secured bronze in the Great Clips Men's Ski Superpipe behind Alex Ferreira and Aaron Blunck.
Meanwhile, two Canadians made the final but missed the medals in The Real Cost Men's Ski Big Air, as Alex Beaulieu-Marchand and McEachran were fifth and eighth, respectively. Henrik Harlaut topped Birk Ruud and Andri Ragettli for the win.
Blouin made a second final, taking fifth in the Pacifico Women's Snowboard Big Air while Miyabi Onitsuka bested Kokomo Murase and Reira Iwabuchi for the victory.
As well, Megan Oldham earned a fifth-place showing in the Women's Ski Big Air as Tess Ledeux got past Mathilde Gremaud and Sarah Hoefflin for the win. Oldham also earned a sixth-place finish in the Jeep Women's Ski Slopestyle as Sildaru took the gold over Hoefflin and Maggie Voisin.
Lastly, 14-year-old Brooke D'Hondt qualified for the Women's Snowboard Superpipe final, earning a sixth-place finish as Queralt Castellet topped Kurumi Imai and Haruna Matsumoto for the win.
