Wanaka freeskier Finn Bilous has claimed New Zealand's first ever Winter Youth Olympic Games medal, taking home silver in the halfpipe.
Bilous finished behind gold medalist Birk Irving of the USA with Norway's Trym Sunde Andreassen rounding out the podium in third place.
With three runs to earn a top score, Bilous started off with his safety run, happy to land clean tricks and come away with a first run score of 89.60 points from a possible 100.
At the end of run one the Kiwi initially sat in first place, the American not too far off with a score of 84.80, with both skiers aware that they would need to step things up a notch.
For Bilous this would require a personal best performance, landing a run he'd learnt in a recent training camp but never yet used in competition. The step up run included a new trick, a double wobble 7, on the very last hit.