Shaun White (Carlsbad, Calif.) clinched his sixth consecutive X Games superpipe title on Jan. 27 in Aspen, Colo. White's first- run score of 95.00 was good enough for gold, but the eight-time superpipe champion upped his score to 98.00 on his second run to win the title. On the women's side, the U.S. swept the podium led by five-time X Games champion Kelly Clark (West Dover, Vt.). Clark's third-run score of 90.33 was enough to overtake Elena Hight's (South Lake Tahoe, Calif.) score of 90.00, while Arielle Gold (Steamboat Springs, Colo.) captured bronze.

OWNING THE OVAL

On the final day of competition, Heather Richardson (High Point, N.C.) clinched the World Sprint Championships title after winning the 1,000-meter race on Jan. 27 in Kerns, Utah. That gold in the final individual event, coupled with a pair of bronze medals a day earlier in the 500 and 1,000, helped her become the first American woman to win the World Sprint Championships since Jennifer Rodriquez in 2005.

BIATHLON

Sean Doherty (Center Conway, N.H.) won the 2013 IBU Youth Pursuit World Championship on Jan. 27 in Obertilliach, Austria. Doherty was victorious in the 10-kilometer pursuit with a time of 29:31.0, more than 28 seconds clear of his closest competitor. Two days earlier, Doherty completed the 7.5K sprint in 21:16.0 and claimed the silver.

BOBSLED/SKELETON

The U.S. successfully defended its world championship title in the team event on Jan. 27 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The team of John Daly (Smithtown, N.Y.), Elana Meyers (Douglasville, Ga.), Lolo Jones (Des Moines, Iowa), Noelle Pikus- Pace (Orem, Utah), Steven Holcomb (Park City, Utah) and Curt Tomasevicz (Shelby, Neb.) claimed USA-1's second consecutive title with a combined time of 4:31.29. A day earlier, Meyers and Katie Eberling (Palos, Hills, Ill.) earned the silver medal in the women's two-man bobsled with a total time of 4:30.99.

The Intercontinental Cup tour concluded on Jan. 23 in Winterberg, Germany, with the U.S. posting three top-10 finishes. Kyle Tress (Ewing, N.J.) finished eighth and Mike Dellemann (Oregon, Wis.) slid to 10th in men's skeleton, while Kimber Gabryszak (Park City, Utah) placed ninth in women's skeleton.

EQUESTRIAN

Steffen Peters (San Diego, Calif.) led the U.S. at the World Dressage Masters Palm Beach, which ran from Jan. 25-26 in Wellington, Fla. Peters finished third in both the grand prix special and freestyle aboard Legolas 92.

Brianne Goutal (New York, N.Y.) outlasted the field to win the $50,000 CSI 2* Grand Prix during the third week of the 2013 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival on Jan. 27 in Wellington, Fla. Piloting Onira, Goutal road the gelding through the timers in 38.96 for the win.

FENCING

The U.S. men's foil team made history at the Paris Foil World Cup when the four-man squad won its first ever world cup team title on Jan. 27. The team of Alexander Massialas (San Francisco, Calif.), Race Imboden (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Miles Chamley-Watson (Philadelphia, Pa.) and David Willette (Lafayette, Calif.) won four matches, including a 45-33 victory over Germany in the championship.

Mariel Zagunis (Beaverton, Ore.) had a fifth-place finish at the London Saber World Cup on Jan. 26. Zagunis won her first three matches, but fell in her quarterfinal bout, 15-9, to Poland's Aleksandra Socha. A day later, the women's saber team finished ninth in the team competition.

FIGURE SKATING

Meryl Davis (West Bloomfield, Mich.) and Charlie White (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) tied history as they became the fifth team to win five U.S. ice dancing titles on Jan. 27 in Omaha, Neb. On the men's side, Max Aaron (Scottsdale, Ariz.) posted a score of 175.87 in the free skate to help clinch his first senior U.S. title. Ross Miner (Boston, Mass.) and Jeremy Abbott (Aspen, Colo.) rounded out the men's podium. Meanwhile, Ashley Wagner (Alexandria, Va.) won the ladies competition with a score of 188.84, followed closely by Gracie Gold (Chicago, Ill.) and Agnes Zawadzki (Des Plaines, Ill.).