Canadian snowboard cross racer Éliot Grondin secures Crystal Globe with silver-medal win in Quebec

1 week_ago 13

New

Canada's Éliot Grondin won a snowboard transverse metallic medal astatine Mont-Sainte-Anne, Que., connected Saturday to claim the overall World Cup play title.

Sainte-Marie, Que., autochthonal has present won back-to-back wide play titles

CBC Sports

· Posted: Apr 05, 2025 12:29 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 infinitesimal ago

A antheral snowboard transverse racer leans to his close broadside arsenic helium races down a course.

Canada's Éliot Grondin won a snowboard transverse metallic medal astatine Mont-Sainte-Anne, Que., connected Saturday to clinch the overall World Cup play title.

The 23-year-old from Sainte-Marie, Que., needed a top-three decorativeness successful Saturday's lawsuit to assertion the Crystal Globe and accomplished that by narrowly losing the large last to Austria's Jakob Dusek. Nathan Pare of the United States took bronze.

Grondin present has back-to-back Crystal Globe wins connected the World Cup circuit, and it comes a week aft he won satellite title golden successful Switzerland.

WATCH | Grondin shreds to a snowboard transverse satellite title title:

Canada's Éliot Grondin shreds to a snowboard transverse satellite title title

A satellite inferior champion successful 2021, Éliot Grondin of Sainte-Marie, Que., earned his archetypal elder satellite title rubric astatine the 2025 FIS snowboard satellite championships successful Corviglia, Switzerland.

Grondin has won two golds, 3 silvers, and a bronze medal connected the World Cup circuit this season.

There is 1 World Cup lawsuit event remaining tomorrow, which volition watercourse unrecorded connected CBC Gem and CBCSports.ca.

WATCH | Grondin sits down successful Switzerland to speech snowboarding success:

Éliot Grondin sits down successful Switzerland to speech snowboarding success

The two-time Olympic snowboarder tells CBC Sports' Anastasia Bucsis astir what the enactment of his assemblage means to him and how he mislaid the golden medal astatine Beijing 2022 by a 'photo finish.'

On the women's side, France Lea Casta earned her 3rd World Cup triumph of the season while Mia Clift of Australia took metallic to land on a World Cup podium for the archetypal clip successful her career. Swiss racer Sina Siegenthaler claimed bronze.

Tess Critchlow was the apical Canadian, finishing 5th by winning the tiny final.

read-entire-article