Snowboard Cross 2024/25 Season Wrap

As Snow Australia reflects on the 2024/25 international season, the outstanding achievements made by our snowboard cross athletes are hard to forget. 

Australian athletes were on the podium from the outset, with Josie Baff and Cam Bolton each claiming a silver medal in the individual events of the Cervinia (ITA) World Cup.

Baff collected a further three individual world cup medals throughout the season winning a silver medal at one of two world cups at Beidahu (CHN) and individual bronze at Erzurum (TUR). It was at this event that Baff joined with Bolton to win Australia’s first first-ever world cup gold medal in the mixed team event. Baff later won a silver medal with Adam Lambert at the Montafon (SUI) World Cup.

Team Australia at the Erzurum World Cup. Photo Giovanni Zenoni | FIS

Lambert also had a defining season, delivering the best campaign of his career thus far finishing sixth overall in the world cup standings. In addition to the silver medal he won with Baff in Montafon, the Jindabyne local earned two individual podiums including silver at Montafon and Gudauri (GEO).

Mia Clift enjoyed a breakout 2024/25 season highlighted by three consecutive podium finishes to close out the year. She also won silver in the snowboard cross mixed team event at the World Championships in Switzerland alongside Bolton, then followed up with her first individual world cup medal - a silver - in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada. Clift capped off the season with a bronze at the World Cup Final, making it three podiums in a row.

Australia was represented by a team of nine athletes at the Junior World Championships in Isola (FRA), where Angus Young make his debut at this event and Maya Billingham achieved podium results in both the individual and team events. She finished silver behind the overall world cup winner Lea Casta individual and combined with Cameron Turner to win silver in the mixed team event. Billingham delivered consistently across the northern winter earning 11 top 10 finishes including two four places. Billingham’s performances confirmed her as one of Australia’s most promising young snowboard cross talents.