Winter Olympics 2022 - Lindsey Jacobellis wins second gold in mixed team snowboard cross with Nick Baumgartner

Lindsey Jacobellis clinched a second gold of Beijing 2022 after winning the inaugural mixed team snowboard cross with American team-mate Nick Baumgartner. Just three days after winning gold in the women’s cross, 16 years after her Turin heartbreak, Jacobellis was celebrating another victory at the Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou.

Ad/> A thrilling big final saw all four female riders start within a second of one another after a close men’s race, and Jacobellis was able to overtake 2018 champion Michela Moioli of Italy to take a thrilling gold. Beijing 2022Bankes shows class in stunning quarter-final but misses out on team snowboard cross medalAN HOUR AGO Canada’s Meryeta O'Dine and Italy’s Caterina Carpano collided midway through the race, but it was the former who picked herself up to hand Canada bronze.

Team GB duo Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale won their quarter-final but were unable to reach the big final, finishing sixth overall when coming second in the small final. The mixed event sees the men race first, with their finishing times determining when the women go in their leg in what is a staggered start.

Italy 1, comprising of Moioli and men’s bronze medallist Omar Visintin, comfortably won the first quarter-final, likewise Baumgartner and Jacobellis in the second quarter. Olympic redemption: Jacobellis follows Turin 2006 gaffe with Beijing 2022 gold 'She can't believe it!' — Jacobellis celebrates wildly after snowboard gold redemption 'It doesn't feel real' — Jacobellis reacts to gold redemption in Beijing ROC then won a close third quarter-final before Bankes raced through the pack in the final quarter-final heat to help GB reach the semis.