Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Canada's Max Parrot won gold in snowboard slopestyle Monday at the Beijing Olympics while the event's defending champion, American Red Gerard, failed to podium.
Parrot, a cancer survivor, won the gold medal with a score of 90.96, more than a point over silver medalist 17-year-old Yiming Su of China.
The 27-year-old Quebec native took the top spot and held onto it with his second of three runs that included huge jumps with a 1620 kicker.
Parrot won silver at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics before missing the 2018-2019 season while undergoing treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma cancer.
Gerard, who was the man to top going into the competition, was sitting first after his opening round on Monday with a score of 83.25, but Canadian Mark McMorris bumped him off the podium into fourth place with a final run that scored an 88.53.
It is McMorris' third straight Olympic bronze medal.
American Sean Fitzsimons finished in 12th place with a score of 29.61 as he did not complete a run down the slope.
