Canadian snowboard cross racer Eliot Grondin wins World Cup bronze despite crash in final

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Canada's Eliot Grondin earned bronze for his 4th snowboard transverse World Cup medal of the play connected Saturday successful Gudauri, Georgia, contempt crashing successful the large final.

23-year-old earns 4th medal of World Cup play astatine 6th halt successful Gudauri, Georgia

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· Posted: Mar 08, 2025 12:12 PM EST | Last Updated: 17 minutes ago

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

Canada's Eliot Grondin earned bronze for his 4th snowboard transverse World Cup medal of the play connected Saturday successful Gudauri, Georgia, contempt crashing successful the large final.

Austrian racer Elias Leitner mislaid his balance and fell backwards into Grondin's way on the last jump, launching the Canadian disconnected the broadside of the people for a dense impact.

The 23-year-old from Sainte-Marie, Que., appeared to locomotion distant unscathed aft being helped to his feet.

He was awarded bronze after the assemblage ruled contention interference from Leitner pursuing video replay.

Austria's Jakob Dusek and Australia's Adam Lambert won golden and silver, respectively.

WATCH l Grondin takes location bronze aft precocious crash:

Canada's Eliot Grondin finishes 3rd contempt crashing successful snowboard transverse final

Eliot Grondin of Sainte-Marie, Que., went down connected the last leap but managed to unafraid a third-place decorativeness astatine the World Cup snowboard transverse contention successful Gudauri.

Grondin was 3rd successful qualifying connected Friday to find himself successful the premix Saturday.

The two-time Olympian grabbed metallic past Saturday successful Erzurum, Turkey.

He besides won golden connected Feb. 2 and Feb. 1 in Beidahu, China.

WATCH l Grondin claims silver in Turkey:

With files from The Canadian Press

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