Australian snowboard halfpipe rider Torah Bright has overcome two Olympic champions on her way to victory in the X Games in Aspen, Colorado.

Bright collected her second X Games title in three years, laying down a best run worth 92.33 points to finish ahead of Salt Lake 2002 gold medallist Kelly Clark of the USA, who earned 89.33 points on her best journey down the superpipe.

Clark’s team-mate Hannah Teter, the Torino 2006 gold medallist, took the bronze with 83.0 points.

The high quality field also included another top US rider, the Torino silver medallist Gretchen Bleiler.

Bright, who finished in fifth place in the Torino Games, first won the prestigious pro-tour event in 2007.

The 22-year-old rider, born in Cooma but now resident in Salt Lake City, won her way into the X Games final with a point score of 97.66, the highest in the event’s history.

She is now expected to tackle the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games pipe in Cypress Mountain in mid-February, when the World Cup tour arrives in the Canadian city for Olympic test events.

That contest will put her alongside fellow New South Wales rider Holly Crawford, who was also on the podium this weekend, winning silver in the World Championships in Gangwon, Korea, to collect Australia’s first ever halfpipe world championships medal.

Also competing at the X Games, Team Bulller skier Anna Seagal has taken out  the women's title in the non-Olympic discipline of Slopestyle. She scored 85.00 points for her best run to easily defeat Grete Elassen of Norway on 79.00 points and Kaya Turski of Canada on 76.33.