Josie Baff has finished the World Cup season in the best possible way, taking home victory in the final snowboard cross event of the season at Mont Sainte Anne in Canada.
At the park and pipe final event in Silvaplana, Switzerland, snowboard teen-sensation Valentino Guseli received the Crystal Globe as the overall World Cup winner, his second globe of the season.
Tess Coady has wrapped up her competition season in style, with a silver medal performance in the slopestyle event overnight at the World Cup final at Silvaplana, located in the iconic St Moritz-Engadin region in Switzerland.
Fourteen Australian athletes will hit the course in Passo San Pellegrino, Italy later this month when the Junior World Championships for ski cross and snowboard cross take place.
Josie Baff has claimed Australia’s fourth medal at the FIS World Championships in Bakuriani, Georgia, with a silver medal performance in the snowboard cross event.
Australian snowboarder Scotty James has won silver in the Men’s Snowboard Halfpipe World Cup in Laax, Switzerland over the weekend, after poor visibility resulted in the night-time final being cancelled, with results from the qualification round used to determine the final placings.
Teen snowboard prodigy Valentino Guseli has created history, becoming the youngest Australian to ever win a World Cup Crystal Globe, and the first for Australia in big air, after finishing fourth in Kreischberg, Austria, over the weekend.
Australia’s winter sports athletes have continued their remarkable start to the World Cup season, with teenage snowboard cross rider Josie Baff and Olympic champion mogul skier Jakara Anthony adding to the medal tally overnight in Europe, with Baff taking silver and bronze to Anthony.
Scotty James has made an incredible start to the season, performing one of the finest runs in halfpipe history to score an amazing 99.00 points from the judges to win gold at the World Cup event in Copper Mountain, USA.
Teen snowboard prodigy Valentino Guseli has created history, becoming the first Australian to win a World Cup big air event in Edmonton, Canada. At 17 years of age, the victory also makes him the youngest ever male to win World Cup gold for Australia in any discipline.
The inaugural FIS Junior Snowboard Cross series was one of the highlights of the 2022 Australian winter season also thanks to the support of the Chumpy Pullin Foundation, the organisation launched in 2022 to honour the memory of Alex ‘Chumpy’ Pullin
Snowboard Cross Beijing 2022 Olympians Josie Baff and Adam Lambert have shown their dominant form during the domestic season, taking out the Snowboard Cross Australian New Zealand Cup (ANC) 2022 titles.
The highly anticipated final stop of the of the FIS JNR SBX Series, powered by the Chumpy Pullin Foundation, took place in challenging conditions at Perisher this week.