Sports

Jake Brown takes gold in skateboard big air at X Games

interns Contributor
Font Size:

Bob Burnquist had one shot Thursday night. Sitting in second place behind Jake Brown, the man who beat him for an X Games gold medal last year, Burnquist settled on a 900-degree spin, 2 ½ full air rotations — skateboarding’s most difficult trick.

Burnquist tore down the 80-foot ramp that launched him across the 70-foot gap, then sped up the 27-foot high quarterpipe. He went into the spin as he and his skateboard skied past the lip of the pipe.

All looked good, but he failed to nail the landing, giving Brown gold again in the skateboard big air event, this one at X Games 16 in the Coliseum.

“I just felt like I could put it down,” said Burnquist, whose final score of 93 was just behind Carslbad, Calif.-native Brown’s 93.66.

Full story: Jake Brown takes gold in skateboard big air at X Games – latimes.com