Snowboard cross racer Jarryd Hughes has taken Winter Olympic silver, Australia's third medal in PyeongChang.
French world No.1 Pierre Vaultier claimed gold and Spaniard Regino Hernandez bronze, with Australian Alex Pullin crashing out in Thursday's final to place sixth.
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Australia gets a second snowboarding medal
22-year-old Jarryd Hughes won the silver medal in the snowboard cross in a race which featured two Australians.
World No.9 Hughes, after going out in the quarter-finals at Sochi in 2014, has had five knee surgeries.
He follows moguls skier Matt Graham (silver) and halfpipe snowboarder Scotty James (bronze) as Australian medallists at the Games.
The 22-year-old was the less fancied of the two Australian finalists, with Pullin ranked second in the world.
But he negotiated the course as other competitors crashed to be in a late three- way race for gold, making up ground on a runaway Vaultier in the dying stages as he narrowly held off Hernandez.
Americans Nick Baumgartner and Mark Dierdorff were fourth and fifth respectively.
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Two-time world champion Pullin improved on his quarter-final exit four years ago but failed to finish as he took a fall while getting air.
Hughes' form leading into the Games was inconsistent, with a World Cup gold medal in December followed by three results outside the top 20.
An X-Games winner, he started the day poorly when a slow start relegated him to 25th in the first seeding run, outside the 24-man cut-off and meaning he would have to undertake a second qualifying run.
He looked far more comfortable on his second attempt, before winning his heat in the finals' first round, placing second in his quarter-final and finishing behind winner Pullin in the semis.
"Oh mate, it's happy days, happy happy days," he told the Seven Network.
"I think it hit me when I was there giving my mum and dad a hug, a few tears.
"I'm just happy to see all the hard work paying off and working out. It was a rough year but we made it work."
Australian Cameron Bolton was last in the four-man small final to finish 10th overall.
He had his arm heavily strapped before his final race after falling in the semis and was only able to push off with one hand.
Countryman Adam Lambert was out in the first round of finals after being clipped from behind by falling Lluis Marin Tarroch of Andorra.
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