The United States completed the first weekend of competition at the 2022 Beijing Olympics with a pair of silver medals.
Freestyle skier Jaelin Kauf used an aggressive final run to win silver in the women’s moguls competition. The 25-year-old, who lives in Salt Lake City, gave the U.S. the first medal in the event since 2014. Jakara Anthony of Australia won the gold medal, with Anastasia Smirnova of Russia Olympic Committee winning bronze.
Snowboarder Julia Marino of Westport, Conn., won the first U.S. medal of the Games, hitting back-to-back 900s and a front-side double cork 1080 in the second run of the women’s slopestyle finals to win silver. The 24-year-old was in gold-medal position until the final competitor, New Zealand’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, overtook Marino on the final run.
“It was a great day,” Marino said after the competition Sunday. “The weather was perfect, the course was perfect. I couldn’t have asked for a better finals. That’s how it should be at the Olympics.”
Australian Tess Coady won the bronze medal.
The medals table:
Russia Olympic Committee: 5 (1 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze)
Norway: 3 (2 gold, 1 bronze)
Austria: 3 (2 silver, 1 bronze)
Italy: 3 (2 silver, 1 bronze)
Sweden: 2 (2 gold)
Germany: 2 (1 gold, 1 silver)
Netherlands: 2 (1 gold, 1 silver)
Australia: 2 (1 gold, 1 bronze)
Japan: 2 (1 gold, 1 bronze)
Slovenia: 2 (1 gold, 1 bronze)
United States: 2 (2 silver)
Canada: 2 (1 silver, 1 bronze)
China: 1 (gold)
New Zealand: 1 (gold)
France: 1 (silver)
Finland: 1 (bronze)
Hungary: 1 (bronze)
Poland: 1 (bronze)
–Field Level Media