The teenage Chinese snowboard sensation who missed gold amid a controversial judging error finally took Olympic victory in his 2nd event

• Chinese snowboarding sensation Su Yiming won gold in the men's Big Air event on Tuesday.
• Last week, he finished second in an event where the judges missed an error from the winner.

Su Yiming, the Chinese snowboarding sensation who last week found himself at the center of a judging controversy, put in a stunning performance to win gold in the men's snowboard big air on Tuesday at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

The 17-year-old finished second in last week's men's slopestyle final, after which the event's head judge admitted making an error that resulted in the final scores being wrong.

Iztok Sumatic and his team missed a mistake by eventual winner Max Parrot, for which the Canadian should have been penalized.

It is unclear if the changes in the scores would definitely have impacted the result, but many pundits have suggested Su should have won gold.

There were no judging controversies at big air Shougang on Tuesday, however, as Su swept aside the competition with a huge final score of 182.50 to claim China's first ever snowboarding gold medal.

"This moment is just so special for me and for my family," he said.

Su's parents, who he hadn't seen for eight months while training in Europe and competing around the world ahead of the games, were in the crowd to watch his historic win.

The teen cried upon spotting them in the stands.

"I was thinking back to when I was four years old and my first time snowboarding,'' he said. "I'm so appreciative. This moment is so special for my family.''

Su, an aspiring actor, produced a pair of huge 1800s, one going forward and one going backward, in his first two runs.

He led by 17.5 points entering the final heat, where nobody was able to close the gap. Norway's Mons Roisland won silver, while Canada's Parrot claimed bronze.

Parrot, who became only the eighth snowboarder ever to win three Olympic medals, gushed over the Chinese teenager after the event.

"Two years ago, I didn't even know him,'' he said. "After the podium, we had a quick talk, and he told me I was one of his idols, and he has been looking up to me this past year. He said because of me, he has been pushing really hard.

"So I told him, now you are going to make me push really hard.''

Teenage takeover

Su's win on Tuesday gave China its second gold medal at big air Shougang after fellow teenager Eileen Gu won gold in the women's big air freestyle skiing competition last week.

The 18-year-old, who grew up in San Francisco but chose to compete for China in the Olympics, landed a massive double cork 1620 on her final jump of the competition, to steal the gold from under the nose of France's Tess Ledeux, who had put on a near-flawless performance on the day.

"That was the best moment of my life," she said. "I just cannot believe what just happened."

After her victory, Gu's fans temporarily caused the Chinese social media platform Weibo to crash as they rushed online to congratulate her.

Gu dominated searches on Weibo in the wake of her win, with seven of the 10 top trending topics all about her triumph.

Fans on her Weibo, where she has over 2.6 million followers, left more than 90,000 comments in less than 30-minutes, while Hashtags related to Gu's win received more than 300 million views.