ASPEN, Colo. — Bend’s Ben Ferguson claimed the second X Games medal of his career Sunday night with a third-place finish in the Men’s Snowboard SuperPipe competition at the 2018 X Games Aspen.

The best of three runs for each of the competition’s 10 riders counted in the final scoring. Ferguson’s score of 95.0, posted on his third run, was good for the bronze. Ayumu Hirano of Japan put up a 99.0 on his final run to capture the gold, and Australian Scotty James posted a 98.0, also on his last run, to win the silver.

Hirano was impressive throughout. He scored 93.0 on his first run and 96.66 on his second run, leading up to the near-perfect 99 on his final ride, during which he landed back-to-back 1440-degree jumps.

The Olympics-bound Ferguson put himself in podium position with a second-run score of 94.33. He settled for the bronze in his fifth X Games appearance; he also medaled in 2016, when he took second place.

Gabe Ferguson, Ben’s younger brother, also of Bend, finished seventh with a best-run score of 76.66.

Reigning Olympic halfpipe champion Iouri Podladtchikov slammed hard into the top edge of the halfpipe on his second run and was taken off the course on a stretcher. He suffered a broken nose and was awake and alert at a local hospital Sunday night. X Games officials said scans for brain and neck injuries came back negative.

Podladtchikov’s injury halted action for more than 10 minutes as medical personnel stabilized his head and neck.

The Swiss snowboarder known as the I-Pod won the Sochi Games on the strength of the Yolo Flip, a 1440-degree trick he patented in the lead-up to those Olympics.

The 29-year-old, rounding into form for the Pyeongchang Games after a knee injury, was attempting a 1260-degree jump on his last trick in the halfpipe Sunday when he slammed against the lip, snapping his neck backward, and he fell limp to the center of the pipe.

“It was terrible. You don’t really know how he’s doing,” said eighth-place finisher Jake Pates, who was the next rider to go after the injury. “He wasn’t moving, there was a crowd of people around him. You can’t help but feel for him. Definitely gets your stomach turned, gets you in a weird head space.”

Immediately, thoughts of Kevin Pearce, who suffered a traumatic brain injury during a practice in 2009, and of halfpipe skier Sarah Burke, who died in a practice in 2012, came to mind. This accident was not as severe, but the fact that it happened in a nationally televised contest — the biggest this side of the Olympics — brought the dangers of the halfpipe to the fore, only two weeks before the Olympics.

“It’s part of it, for sure,” said Ben Ferguson, who will be in Pyeongchang. “People take digs, and you just have to be smart about it. You know you take a risk and you just do what you’ve got to do.”

Indeed, not even the scare of the injury could stop the riders from raising the stakes in the last contest before most of them head to South Korea for the Olympics.