Big air bronze medalist Yoo Seung-eun (Seongbok High School) ended her first Olympic appearance with a 12th-place finish in women’s snowboard slopestyle.
Competing Feb. 18 (Korea time) at Livigno Snow Park in Italy, Yoo posted a best score of 34.18 across three finals runs, placing 12th among the 12 finalists at the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics.
The final had been scheduled for Feb. 17 but was postponed a day because of heavy snow and severe weather. Yoo had raised medal hopes by scoring 76.80 in qualifying, third overall, but struggled to complete clean runs in the final.
Going 10th, she scored 20.70 on her first run after a landing mistake in the rail section (Section 3).
Her best score came on the second run. She landed a switch backside 900 on the first jump (Section 4) and followed with a frontside 360 in Section 5, but fell on the landing while attempting a backside 720 on the final jump (Section 6), finishing with 34.18.
On her third run, she slipped early in Section 2 and again attempted a switch backside 900 on the first jump, but wobbled on the landing and scored 15.46.
Yoo finished the Games after making history for South Korea’s snow events by winning bronze in snowboard big air.
Japan’s Mari Fukada won gold with 87.83 points. Silver went to Zoi Sadowski-Synnott of New Zealand, and bronze to Japan’s Kokomo Murase.
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