Australia’s Joany Badenhorst has grabbed a podium finish at the 2017 World Para Snowboard Championships in Big White, Canada, taking bronze in the snowboard cross.
Belle Brockhoff has claimed her second World Cup win of the 2016/2017 season in Bulgaria overnight to reclaim the number one spot on the snowboard cross world rankings.
Whether the conditions be fair or foul, Britt Cox delivers her best every week in this season’s Mogul Skiing World Cups, bringing home the bronze from Deer Valley in Utah and retaining her number one FIS world ranking.
The winter sports story of the season has become Lydia Lassila’s return to Aerial Skiing for a tilt at a fifth Olympics after her extraordinary World Cup gold medal in Deer Valley, Utah.
With just over a year to go until the 23rd edition of the Winter Olympic Games gets underway, Australia’s best cross country skiers will get their chance to see just what they’re in for at PyeongChang 2018.
Australia is set to continue its proud history in Cross Country under the guidance of new Head Coach Valerio Leccardi, appointed by the Ski & Snowboard Australia Cross Country Committee.
Australia’s Harry Laidlaw will be the nation’s sole representative when he competes at the upcoming 2017 World Alpine Skiing Championships in St Moritz, Switzerland.
The Board of SSA is delighted to welcome Ms Louise Barrett as a Director to fill the casual vacancy following the resignation of Mr Richie Biggins. Louise will hold office for the balance of the term of the vacating Director which, in this case will be through until the AGM in March 2018.
The Australian Para-Alpine Skiing team has wrapped up a successful week of racing at the 2017 World Championships in Tarvisio, highlighted by Mitch Gourley’s emphatic win in the Super Combined.
When the trio of Aussie athletes line up for the 2017 Para Snowboarding World Championships in Big White, Canada this week, they will have podium finishes firmly in their sights.
Two-time Winter Olympian Britteny Cox and 2016 world number 2 Matt Graham beat a strong field at the Canada Olympic Park to finish on top of their respective podiums.
The Australia Day Honours List include Mr Dale Nygel Begg-Smith who has received a Medal (OAM) of the Order of Australia in the General Division for his Services to Sport.
Current World Champion and PyeongChang 2018 contender Scotty James has won SuperPipe gold at the first X Games event of the season in Aspen.
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James threw down a spectacular 90-point effort on the first of two runs in the final to beat a star studded-field that included the calibre of halfpipe legend Shaun White and Sochi 2014 Olympic gold medallist Iouri Podladtchikov.
Years of hard work and determination have paid off for Para-Alpine skier Mitch Gourley, with the 25-year-old taking top honours in the Super Combined at the 2017 World Championships in Tarvisio, Italy.