A 22-strong Australian team will take on the best from around the globe when the 2023 FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships commence this weekend in Bakuriani, Georgia.
Three Australian snowboarders are lining up at the Snow Rodeo event in Calgary this week to compete for World Cup glory. One is Sascha Elvy. Sixteen years old and standing on and standing on the doorstep of her World Cup debut this weekend.
Teen snowboard prodigy Valentino Guseli has created history to become only the fourth snowboarder to podium in all three park and pipe disciplines of big air, slopestyle and halfpipe, and the first rider to ever achieve the feat in the one season after a double podium performance in Mammoth Mountain, USA.
Another weekend of record performances for Australia's leading winter sports athletes, with the highlight being an incredible three medal performance on the opening day of the X-Games in Aspen, USA, with gold to Scotty James, silver to Tess Coady and bronze for Valentino Guseli. Jakara Anthony also took home her fifth World Cup medal of the season.
Snow Australia hosted the inaugural Park & Pipe Talent Combine in Jindabyne this week, bringing together 21 of Australia’s brightest Park & Pipe prospects for a three day camp at the National Snow Training Centre (NSTC), and on snow at Perisher Resort.
Up and coming park and pipe snowboarder Jesse Parkinson is one of six athletes selected in Tier 1 of the program and will receive $10,000 to go towards their training and competition, as well as one-on-one mentoring from some of the greats of Australian sport.