Overview
- Alex Ferreira won gold with a 93.75, Estonia’s Henry Sildaru took silver with 93.00, and Canada’s Brendan Mackay earned bronze with 91.00 as Goepper’s best score of 89 missed the podium.
- Goepper was in third after his second run before a hard fall on his third; he received brief medical attention and walked off under his own power.
- Earlier Friday, Goepper qualified second with a 90.00 behind Mackay’s 92.75 after weather delays pushed both qualifying and the final into the same day in Livigno.
- Competing in his first Olympic halfpipe after switching from slopestyle, the 31-year-old arrived as a contender following a 2025 X Games superpipe gold, 2025 world silver and a World Cup win in Calgary.
- Qualification was interrupted by a serious crash involving New Zealand’s 19-year-old Finley Melville Ives, who was stretchered out but was reported conscious as competition resumed.