Canadian snowboard cross racer Éliot Grondin wins gold at world championships

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Canada's Éliot Grondin raced to a golden medal successful the men's snowboard transverse last astatine the satellite championships successful Switzerland connected Friday.

Sainte-Marie, Que., autochthonal besides leads men's World Cup wide standings

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· Posted: Mar 28, 2025 9:01 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

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

Canada's Éliot Grondin raced to a golden medal successful the men's snowboard transverse last astatine the satellite championships in Corviglia, Switzerland connected Friday.

France's Loan Bozzolo and Austria's Alessandro Haemmerle earned metallic and bronnze, respectively.

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, a 23-year-old from Sainte-Marie, Que., won a world inferior rubric successful 2021 and besides presently leads the men's World Cup wide standings.

Grondin's 504 full points is 141 wide of his adjacent closest competitor, Bozzolo, with 2 races remaining.

Grondin has won two golds, 2 silvers, and a bronze medal connected the World Cup circuit this season.

The last play of World Cup snowboard transverse contention begins adjacent weekend at Mont-Sainte-Anne, Que. CBC Sports volition unrecorded watercourse the lawsuit opening connected Saturday, April 5.

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.'

With files from The Canadian Press

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