(Veysonnaz) Quebec snowboarder Eliot Grondin won the last stage of the season in the Snowboard Cross World Cup on Sunday in Veysonnaz.
Posted at 11:11 a.m.
Grondin, who is from Lévis, beat Frenchmen Merlin Surget and Léo Le Blé Jaques in the super-final.
It was his first World Cup victory this season, and his third podium.
Grondin, 20, won silver in snowboard cross at the Beijing Olympics last month and bronze in team snowboard cross.
Among the ladies, Quebecer Audrey McManiman, from Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare, finished at the foot of the podium.
The event was won by Britain’s Charlotte Bankes, ahead of American Faye Gulini and France’s Manon Petit Lenoir, respectively.
The other Canadian entered in the snowboard cross event, Maryeta Odine, settled for eighth place.