Mari Fukada won Olympic gold in the women's slopestyle final Wednesday while teammate Kokomo Murase took bronze to bring Japan's massive medal haul at the Livigno snowboarding park to nine.
Between Fukada and Murase, defending slopestyle champion Zoi Sadowski-Synnott of New Zealand became the most decorated snowboarder in Olympic history with her fifth career medal after taking silver.
Murase added the bronze to her gold in big air.
Austria's two-time big air gold medalist Anna Gasser finished her Olympic career with a 10th-place finish.
"It's probably going to hit me when the next Olympics come around," the 34-year-old Gasser said.
The Livigno slopestyle course consists of three rail elements and three jumps. Judges score riders on their creativity, execution of tricks and routine as a whole. Riders got three chances to perform their routines with only their best score counting.
Fukada, 19, proved unbeatable with a score of 87.83.
"I still can't believe it," Fukada said after her victorious Olympic debut.
Sadowski-Synnott was off the podium when she dropped in for the final's last run and pulled off a big score to grab her record-setting silver.
The 24-year-old New Zealander also won silver in big air at these Games, adding to a big air bronze in 2018 and big air silver in 2022. Four years ago in Beijing she became the first Kiwi to win a gold medal at a Winter Games when she triumphed in women's slopestyle.
On hearing of her milestone, she said, "It feels pretty insane, to be honest."
Earlier Wednesday, China's Su Yiming won the men's slopestyle final on his 22nd birthday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
