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Anna Gasser edges out Jamie Anderson for big air gold

Snowboard - Winter Olympics Day 13

PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 22: Jamie Anderson of the United States competes during the Snowboard - Ladies’ Big Air Final Run 2 on day 13 of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Phoenix Snow Park on February 22, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)

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With a pair of extremely progressive tricks, Austria’s Anna Gasser has become the first-ever Olympic champion in women’s snowboard big air.

Gasser landed all three of her jumps in the big air final, but it was the last one — a cab double cork 1080 — that knocked Jamie Anderson out of the top spot and gave Gasser the win.

Anderson ended up with a silver medal. It’s her second medal of these Olympics and the third medal of her career.

New Zealand’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott took bronze.

Read the full story and watch video at NBCOlympics.com