NSW Institute of Sport winter athletes have won two medals at the X-Games in Aspen while Jakara Anthony claimed another world cup medal in Canada.

Olympic bronze medallist Tess Coady claimed her first X-Games hardware with silver in the ladies’ snowboard slopestyle while teenage ace Valentino Guseli finished third in the snowboard halfpipe.

In snowy conditions in front of a huge crowd, Australian Scotty James was the dominant rider, with two outstanding runs securing back-to-back victories at the event. Valentino was in second position after a spectacular third run but got bumped down a spot late in the event by Swiss rider Jan Scherrer.

Tess Coady was unlucky not to take the win, with the judges awarding first place to Kiwi Olympic champion Zoi Sadowski-Synnott on the last run of the day. Japan’s Kokomo Murase rounded out the podium.

Meanwhile, in world cup mogul skiing, Olympic gold medallist Jakara Anthony won her fifth medal of the season, collecting silver in Val St Come in Canada.

After advancing through to finals in first place, Jakara scored 81.88 points in the super final to be edged out of first place by 0.37 points by Japan’s Anri Kawamura. American Jaelin Kauf placed third with a score of 78.34.

After four events, Jakara is ranked first on the moguls standings with 380 points, with French skier Parrine Laffont in second with 270 and Kawamura in third on 248.

“Definitely a solid performance, obviously wanted that top spot, but so does every girl out there, so you have to be laying it down every run,” the Beijing Olympic champion said.

Also in action for Australia in the men’s event was Matt Graham who finished sixth in the super final, Cooper Woods 13th, Jackson Harvey 17th and George Murphy 38th.

The mogul athletes will compete again at Val St Come in a dual event.

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