Canada’s liot Grondin clinches snowboard cross Crystal Globe with silver-medal win in Quebec [Video]

Canada’s Éliot Grondin won a snowboard cross silver medal at Mont-Sainte-Anne, Que., on Saturday to clinch the overall World Cup season title.

The 23-year-old from Sainte-Marie, Que., needed a top-three finish in Saturday’s event to claim the Crystal Globe and accomplished that by narrowly losing the big final to Austria’s Jakob Dusek. Nathan Pare of the United States took bronze.

Grondin now has back-to-back Crystal Globe wins on the World Cup circuit, and it comes a week after he won world championship gold in Switzerland.

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A world junior champion in 2021, Éliot Grondin of Sainte-Marie, Que., earned his first senior world championship title at the 2025 FIS snowboard world championships in Corviglia, Switzerland.

Grondin has won two golds, three silvers, and a bronze medal on the World Cup circuit this season.

On the women’s side, France Lea Casta earned …