Bronze for Kevin Hill and Chris Robanske in Sierra Nevada
Canada Snowboard – Vancouver, BC – Racing in the first ever team Snowboardcross World Championships event, Kevin Hill (Vernon, BC) and Chris Robanske (Squamish, BC) took home the Bronze medal in Sierra Nevada, Spain. Riders were neck and neck until the end, Robanske crossing the finish line in third place behind the USA’s Nick Baumgartner and Spain’s Lucas Eguibar.
The team event, which features a team of two riders racing in a relay style competition, officially made its World Championships debut at the Sierra Nevada on Monday morning. For Robanske and Hill, the bronze medal was their first international podium of the season.
“It’s been the hardest year of my life on the tour. Things haven’t been clicking, not going well. I had bad luck, kind of a little bit of everything.” Said Robanske, whose sheer determination was rewarded with a podium performance. “I told myself ‘We will be attacking [today], giving everything we have.’ So we took that, we believed in our team which is behind us, and today it worked.”
The Canadian national Snowboardcross team will now wrap up the World Cup season in Veysonnaz, SUI for a pair of World Cups from March 24-26, 2017.
This is Canada’s second snowboard medal at The FIS Snowboard World Championships 2017, as the competition continues with both Parallel Giant Slalom and Big Air events later this week.
Junior Slopestyle caps off the 2017 Sport Chek Air Nation Nationals
It’s been a solid week of riding for some of Canada’s rising stars, capped off with Sunday’s Junior Slopestyle National Championships. Following his third place finish in the Open category, Joshua Reeves (Calgary, AB) took home the top spot for the men while Jasmine Baird (Georgetown, ON) followed up on her 3rd place Open finish to win the womens’ competiton.
Jadyn Chomlack and John MacDougall rounded off the mens’ podium while Sommer Gendron & Marguerite Sweeney took 2nd and 3rd respectively on the womens’ side.
The focus now shifts from style to speed as Canada’s best Alpine, Snowboardcross and Para-athletes make their way to Mont Tremblant, QC for the Sports Experts Speed Nation Nationals 2017 presented by Mazda Canada and FA Design from April 4-9, 2017.
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