Team USA's Alex Hall, Nick Goepper take gold and silver in slopestyle

Alex Hall needed only one run to get his first Olympic gold medal.

The four-time X Games winner, who missed out on a medal in the Big Air event he has seen the most success in, won Wednesday's slopestyle event with a massive first run that scored a 90.01. No other skier would cross the 90-point threshold on the next two runs.

"It definitely was the best slopestyle run I've ever done, mainly because it embodied everything I love about skiing and how I approach skiing and I didn't fade away from that to try and maybe get bigger scores or something," Hall said.

Coming in second was Hall's compatriot Nick Goepper, who won his third Olympic medal after taking bronze in slopestyle in Sochi and silver in the same event in PyeongChang.

"I was real nervous. I kind of messed up a little bit on the first rail on the first run," Goepper said. "On the second run, I nailed most of the run, there were a couple of bubbles. It wasn't perfect, so I was surprised that it got that high of a score, but everyone was experiencing the Olympic jitters today and it was just a matter of putting one down, top to bottom."

Here's his medal-winning run:

It was a day of tough conditions for all skiers, which seemed to work out for Team USA. None of the 10 finalists landed a score even in the 80s in the third run, with many misfiring on tricks. Colby Stevenson, the silver medalist in last year's Big Air event, came close to posting an American podium sweep, but an early mistake negated a string of big-time jumps.

Adding a gold and silver pushes Team USA into third in the total medal table in Beijing with 19, behind only Norway (26) and Russia (20). The Americans are also third in the gold medal count with eight, behind Norway (12) and Germany (9).