Canada’s Eliot Grodin wins snowboard cross gold at world championships

SAINT MORITZ — Canada’s Eliot Grondin won gold in snowboard cross at the world championships Friday.

The Ste-Marie, Que., native topped the podium ahead of France’s Loan Bozzolo and Austria’s Alessandro Haemmerle.

The 23-year-old Grondin has four World Cup medals this season, including two gold, after winning seven races in 2024.

It is his second medal at the worlds following a bronze in 2021 in Idre Fjall, Sweden. Grondin also won that season’s world junior title.