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Canada’s Éliot Grondin won a snowboard cross silver medal at Mont-Sainte-Anne, Que., on Saturday to clinch the overall World Cup season title.
The 23-year-old from Sainte-Marie, Que., needed a top-three finish in Saturday’s event to claim the Crystal Globe and accomplished that by narrowly losing the big final to Austria’s Jakob Dusek. Nathan Pare of the United States took bronze.
Grondin now has back-to-back Crystal Globe wins on the World Cup circuit, and it comes a week after he won world championship gold in Switzerland.
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 has won two golds, three silvers, and a bronze medal on the World Cup circuit this season.
On the women’s side, France Lea Casta earned her third World Cup win of the season while Mia Clift of Australia took silver to land on a World Cup podium for the first time in her career. Swiss racer Sina Siegenthaler claimed bronze.
Tess Critchlow was the top Canadian, finishing fifth by winning the small final.
The final World Cup event of the season streams live on CBC Gem and CBCSports.ca beginning on Sunday at 11 a.m. ET.
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.’
