Second consecutive home snow victory for Su as Brookes wins big in Beijing
Dec 06, 2025·Snowboard Park & Pipe
Great Britain’s Mia Brookes began her World Cup season with a Big Air win in Beijing on Saturday as China’s Su Yiming secured his second home snow victory in a row at the same venue where he won Olympic gold nearly four years ago, in what was an exceptional display of snowboarding at the world’s premier Big Air venue.
Brookes was the first snowboarder to secure victory at the Beijing Big Air World Cup on Saturday with a score of 176.50, bouyed when her second run score of 94.00 for her switch frontside 1440 stalefish bumped her into pole position.
“This one’s really crazy, I’m super hyped. I just wanted to come and put down back 12 and cab 14 and I did that, so I’m really stoked,” said Brookes.
Austria’s Hanna Karrer was runner-up on 146.75 while Japan’s Momo Suzuki took third place with 145.25.
Karrer’s second-place finish is the 17-year-old's first World Cup podium. Before Saturday her career best was two sixth-place finishes in last season’s Aspen and Kreischberg (AUT) events.
Suzuki’s result is the 18-year-old’s third time in third place at a Big Air World Cup podium after Aspen and Klagenfurt (AUT) last season.
Beijing marks Brookes’ first event of the 2025/26 FIS Snowboard World Cup season after the 18-year-old did not contest the Stubai Slopestyle World Cup in November.
Brookes, who ended last season with the Crystal Globe for both Big Air and the women’s overall Park & Pipe, said she was happy to start the new season with a win.
“It’s really special. I think a lot of people could see I was kind of getting tired last year, I pulled out of a few comps and didn’t really do my best.
In the men’s event, Su Yiming saved the best for last to top the men’s field and claim a second consecutive World Cup victory on Chinese snow following his Secret Garden victory last week.
Su, the reigning Olympic Big Air champion, was second on the leaderboard and the last rider to drop into the Shougang jump on Saturday night after Japan’s Kira Kimura jumped into the lead with a switch backside 1980 that earned him a score 91.25.
But 21-year-old Su overtook Kimura after judges awarded the Chinese rider a score of 92.00 for his own version of the switch backside 1980, giving him a winning total of 181.00 compared to Kimura’s 178.25.
“Before the last run when I saw he landed a switch back 19, I knew the score was going to be higher than me,” said Su.
“I just really focused myself to get a better switch back 19 as well.”
Finland’s Rene Rinnekangas finished third on 176.25 after delivering the highest-scored run of the final of 95.00 for his nosebutter backside rodeo 1440 tailgrab in run one - a trick which had never before been landed in competition.
Su said winning Saturday’s World Cup in the same venue where he won his Beijing 2022 gold medal was a special moment.
Su’s back-to-back wins in Beijing and Secret Garden comes after the 21-year-old ended last season without any top-10 finishes in Big Air.
“I had a really bad year last year. It didn’t go my way in the finals at all. So this year I’m really trying to come back stronger and here I am. I made it,” said Su.
Japan’s Yuto Miyamura finished fourth behind Rinnekangas, followed by New Zealander Dane Menzies in fifth place. The result is Menzies’ second top-five World Cup finish.
China’s Ge Chunyu, who was runner-up behind Su last week in Secret Garden, finished in eighth place on Saturday.
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