Canada’s Éliot Grondin raced to a gold medal in the men’s snowboard cross final at the world championships in Corviglia, Switzerland on Friday.
France’s Loan Bozzolo and Austria’s Alessandro Haemmerle earned silver and bronnze, respectively.
WATCH | Grondin shreds to a snowboard cross world championship title:
A world junior champion in 2021, Éliot Grondin of Sainte-Marie, Que., earned his first senior world championship title at the 2025 FIS snowboard world championships in Corviglia, Switzerland.
Grondin, a 23-year-old from Sainte-Marie, Que., won a world junior title in 2021 and also currently leads the men’s World Cup overall standings.
Grondin’s 504 total points is 141 clear of his next closest competitor, Bozzolo, with two races remaining.
Grondin has won two golds, two silvers, and a bronze medal on the World Cup circuit this season.
The final weekend of World Cup snowboard cross competition begins next weekend at Mont-Sainte-Anne, Que. CBC Sports will live stream the event beginning on Saturday, April 5.
WATCH | Grondin sits down in Switzerland to talk snowboarding success:
The two-time Olympic snowboarder tells CBC Sports’ Anastasia Bucsis about what the support of his community means to him and how he lost the gold medal at Beijing 2022 by a ‘photo finish.’
