What originally started as an ambition for Bongiorno to beat her brothers down the slopes, has become a goal to match it with the world’s best alpine snowboarders.
After a very successful debut season last year, Snow Australia are excited to announce the FIS JNR SBX Series, powered by the Chumpy Pullin Foundation, is returning this domestic winter season.
After an eventful awards week, Snow Australia also hosted the National Discipline Committee Autumn meetings for the Freestyle, Snowboard and Park & Pipe disciplines.
Josie Baff and James Johnstone have continued a strong Australian history at the Junior World Championships, winning gold in the snowboard cross mixed team event.
Josie Baff has finished the World Cup season in the best possible way, taking home victory in the final snowboard cross event of the season at Mont Sainte Anne in Canada.
At the park and pipe final event in Silvaplana, Switzerland, snowboard teen-sensation Valentino Guseli received the Crystal Globe as the overall World Cup winner, his second globe of the season.
Tess Coady has wrapped up her competition season in style, with a silver medal performance in the slopestyle event overnight at the World Cup final at Silvaplana, located in the iconic St Moritz-Engadin region in Switzerland.
Fourteen Australian athletes will hit the course in Passo San Pellegrino, Italy later this month when the Junior World Championships for ski cross and snowboard cross take place.
Josie Baff has claimed Australia’s fourth medal at the FIS World Championships in Bakuriani, Georgia, with a silver medal performance in the snowboard cross event.
Australian snowboarder Scotty James has won silver in the Men’s Snowboard Halfpipe World Cup in Laax, Switzerland over the weekend, after poor visibility resulted in the night-time final being cancelled, with results from the qualification round used to determine the final placings.
Teen snowboard prodigy Valentino Guseli has created history, becoming the youngest Australian to ever win a World Cup Crystal Globe, and the first for Australia in big air, after finishing fourth in Kreischberg, Austria, over the weekend.
Australia’s winter sports athletes have continued their remarkable start to the World Cup season, with teenage snowboard cross rider Josie Baff and Olympic champion mogul skier Jakara Anthony adding to the medal tally overnight in Europe, with Baff taking silver and bronze to Anthony.
Scotty James has made an incredible start to the season, performing one of the finest runs in halfpipe history to score an amazing 99.00 points from the judges to win gold at the World Cup event in Copper Mountain, USA.