Olympic snowboarding champion Su Yiming becomes first Chinese winner of Big Air World Cup
Former child actor scores back-to-back World Cup wins and also adds another Guinness World Record to his name after ‘back-to-back 1980’ move
Olympic snowboard champion Su Yiming has become China’s first overall winner of the FIS Snowboard Big Air World Cup and has also added another Guinness World Record to his name as he builds towards defending his Winter Games title at Milano Cortina 2026.
The 21-year-old secured the Crystal Globe trophy for the 2025-26 Big Air season after back-to-back World Cup victories at Genting Resort Secret Garden in Zhangjiakou and the Shougang Big Air Jump in Beijing, placing him top of the overall Big Air standings.
The Shougang Big Air Jump venue is where he won Big Air gold at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
“I have been waiting for this for so long,” Su wrote on social media after clinching the title.
His success came as another recognition of his technical achievement was announced.
Su’s “back-to-back 1980” – two consecutive 1,980-degree rotations each with 5½ spins on a single run – has been officially certified as a world record by Guinness World Records.