From racing to freestyle, action sports athlete Brett Turcotte has risen to the top of whatever he’s turned his hand to. He’s won an incredible eight medals from the X Games, the world’s leading extreme sports tournament. He’s particularly associated with Sno-Cross and various forms of snowmobiling. In 2020, he won his third X Medal gold medal in Aspen, coming out on top in the Snow Bike Best Trick event. A native of Clearwater, British Columbia, he still resides and runs his action sports training facility The Turcotte Compound there.

Turcotte first became a professional athlete in 2008 when he won his first X Games silver medal in the Snowmobile Sno-Cross racing event. He continued racing in tournaments but struggled to repeat his initial success and stopped enjoying the events. In 2015, he appeared in his first freestyle snowmobile event at the X Games, the Speed & Style tournament, and finished seventh. Inspired, he gave up racing in 2016 and turned his full attention to performing ever-more daring freestyle tricks. At that year’s X Games, he won bronze in the Snowmobile Freestyle. Just weeks later, he became the first athlete to ever land a backflip on a Yeti Snowbike.

A serious dirt-bike crash in 2017 left Turcotte in a critical condition in hospital — he broke his tailbone and lost 60% of his blood. Despite such potentially career (and life) threatening injuries, he returned to the X Games in 2017, winning two gold medals: the Snowmobile Freestyle and Snowmobile Speed & Style. He also finished fifth in his first Snowbike event. His first Snowbike gold in 2020 shows that he’s still breaking new ground.