Snowboard Cross & Alpine Snowboard - 2023/24 Season Wrap

The 2023/24 season was littered with podium results for our Snowboard Cross and Alpine Snowboard athletes, in a range of competitions including World Cups, Europa Cups and Gangwon 2024, the Winter Youth Olympic Games. 

Snowboard Cross 
Our Snowboard Cross athletes enjoyed a successful season with 14 World Cup podium finishes achieved by five individual athletes. 

Leading the way was Olympian Josie Baff with five podium places including second at the Sierra Nevada World Cup. She also finished third in Cervinia, Mt St Anne and at both World Cup races in Montafon. 

Fellow Olympian Cam Bolton earned four podium finishes this season, taking home silver at the Gudauri and Mt St Anne World Cups twice respectively. 

Belle Brockoff joined the podium three times; her first race of the season brought home third place at Les Deux Alpes in December before placing ahead of Baff in second place at the Cervinia World Cup. Brockoff’s final podium of the season was at Gudauri where she finished third. 

Emulating Brockoff’s results, Adam Lambert secured silver at Cervinia World Cup in December. 

Jarryd Hughes displayed a return to form achieving his first World Cup podium in more than six years by placing third at Cortina d'Ampezzo. 

James Johnstone experienced a breakout season with a successful debut on the World Cup circuit and three Europa Cup podium appearances, including two golds. Johnstone finished the season in fourth place overall on the Europa Cup standings. Amber Essex also joined the World Cup circuit for the first time this season. 

Angus Jones was ninth overall in the Europa Cup standings while.Maya Billingham achieved her first podium finish with second place in Grasgehren. Brothers Declan and Kobi Dent earned top 25 results in the standings. 

The Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games were a happy hunting ground for the Aussie contingent. William Martin and Abbey Wilson secured the bronze medal in the Mixed Snowboard Cross Team event, before placing 12th and fourth in their respective individual events. Lara Walsh also finished well in the women’s event placing 18th, while Cameron Turner placed 16th in the men’s Individual event. 

Following her Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympics campaign, Lara Walsh finished her season by winning the US National Championships. 

At the Junior World Championships the Australian men all placed within the top 40 including David McLean in 16th, William McCarthy 28th, William Martin 32nd, Cameron Turner 33rd, James Johnstone 34th and Robert Jones 39th. Maya Billingham and Marci Davis-Cook placed 12th and 16th respectively in the women’s event. 

Alpine Snowboard

Our Alpine Snowboard athletes continued to build their consistency on the world stage in 2023/24. 

Millie Bongiorno returned to some of her best form this season, claiming her first Europa Cup podium in almost two years. After a sixth place parallel slalom result in Pamporovo, Bulgaria in January, she returned to the second race the following day and claimed the bronze medal. Millie also raced extensively on the World Cup circuit where she tasted more success in Bulgaria, with an 18th place finish scoring her the best individual World Cup result of her career.

Harvey Edmanson continued to hone his craft in the 2023/24 season, competing in seven World Cup races along with 88 Europa Cups. In January, Harvey scored his best ever Europe Cup result, fourth place in parallel slalom at Folgaria in Italy, before backing it up with an eighth place finish at Pamporovo in Bulgaria later in the month. The results scored him the highest two FIS points results of his career and a 23rd place on the overall Europa Cup standings.

Georgia Brose placed 39th in the World Junior Championship in both the Parallel Giant Slalom and Parallel Slalom events. She also finished 24th in the Nor-Am Cup standings, while Mia Chawner was 28th.