Story byJapan's Kokomo Murase reacts after the Women's Snowboard Big Air final competition of the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina. Oliver Weiken/dpaDPAMon, February 9, 2026 at 8:43 PM UTC·1 min readKokomo Murase completed a golden snowboard Big Air Olympic double for Japan on Monday, after Kira Kimura had won the men's competition on the weekend. X Games champion Murase clinched the gold four years after bronze on her final jump with 179.00 points. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementZoi Sadowski-Synnott of New Zealand got silver as in 2022 with 172.25 points and South Korea's Yu Seung-eun took bronze with 171.00 points. Murase is the first Big Air winner other than Austrian Anna Gasser, who missed a historic third snowboard gold in eighth place after falling on her first jump and also making a mistake in her second with the same trick. Murase's victorys came two days after Kimura and Ryoma Kimata won gold and silver for Japan in the men's event. Both are the first Big Air golds for Japan's snowboarders.
