ASPEN — The future of snowboarding is Chloe Kim.

Mere minutes after a brutal practice crash, the 14-year-old on Saturday toppled Kelly Clark’s dynastic halfpipe dominance. Spinning technical combos with a pair of 900s, a switch method and a switch 720 with floating amplitude, Kim’s final run in the best-of-three contest earned 92 points to beat Clark’s first-run 90.

Last year Kim was the youngest athlete to win an X Games medal with her halfpipe silver. Saturday night she became the youngest Winter X Games gold medalist. She was too young to go to Sochi and she is too young to compete in the World Cup circuit.

On the final run of practice Saturday, Kim slammed the deck of the pipe on her final hit, smashing her face as she slid down the wall of the pipe.

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“I think I was more scared after all that happened,” she said. “It was my last practice run. The contest starting in five minutes and I just fell on my face really hard. It wasn’t really an injury. It was more about coming back and trying to do this all over again and kind of forget that that happened. Going into my first run my legs were shaking.”

Clark was hunting for her sixth consecutive gold medal in the X Games halfpipe.

With the only 1080 in the competition and a first-run, first-hit height of 16 feet, 11 inches setting a record, Clark seemed destined for her 74th career win and her 13th X Games medal. Rivals like Hannah Teter, Arielle Gold, Cai Xuetong and Elena Hight struggled to land clean runs that could thwart the queen of snowboarding’s performance.

“I think all the women rode really well tonight. I think that myself, Torah and Chloe all create such different styles of riding. I tihink its really good for women’s snowboarding to see different strengths. For me it’s inspiring.”

The 31-year-old Clark, who earned bronze in the Sochi Winter Olympics last year, is one of the oldest in the game but she’s showing no signs of fading, continuing to push her sport to new heights with first-ever tricks like that 1080. But Kim, on Saturday night, pushed harder.

Australian Torah Bright, who won silver in the Sochi Olympics, spun a lofty McTwist on her first air and technical 720s earned her bronze, her fifth X Games medal in 10 appearances.

First gold.

Freeskier Emma Dahlstrom put together a solid second run on the slopestyle course to win her first X Games gold. The 22-year-old Swede had a 90.33-point second run, which was set apart by her spins through the rail section.

University of Denver graduate Keri Herman was in second going into the final run and had a chance to knock off Dahlstrom, but the veteran Herman took a nasty fall at the bottom of the second rail feature to end the day.

Herman, 32, was able to walk off after a few minutes and claimed her third silver (2010 and 2011) in the event, which she hasn’t missed since its X Games debut in 2009.