Valentino Guseli claims the biggest win of his snowboarding career in Edmonton, and at 17 years old is the youngest ever Australian World Cup winner on the snowboard circuit.
abc.net.au/news/val-guseli-wins-fis-world-cup-big-air-canada/101759484Australia's teenage snowboard sensation Valentino Guseli has claimed his first FIS World Cup gold medal at the Edmonton Style Experience Big Air competition.Valentino Guseli is the youngest Australian winner of an FIS World Cup event at 17 years oldAustralia has won four other World Cup gold medals in the past two weeksThe 17-year-old is also Australia's youngest ever gold medallist at an FIS World Cup event.
"It's been a long and very bumpy road the last three years trying to work my way to some podiums and I have finally got a win, and I am so hyped, I am hoping to just keep it rolling to the next comps." The victory marks out Guseli — described as the worst kept secret in snowboarding ahead of February's Olympics — as a genuine three-discipline star in snowboarding.
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