Canada's Éliot Grondin clinches snowboard cross Crystal Globe with silver-medal win in Quebec
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Caption: Canada's Eliot Grondin, shown in this file photo, won World Cup silver medal on Satruday to clinch a Crystal Globe for overall season winner. (Paul Brechu/)
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.
WATCH | Grondin shreds to a snowboard cross world championship title:
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 her third World Cup win of the season while Mia Clift of Australia took silver to land on a World Cup podium for the first time in her career. Swiss racer Sina Siegenthaler claimed bronze.
Tess Critchlow was the top Canadian, finishing fifth by winning the small final.
The final World Cup event of the season streams live on CBC Gem and CBCSports.ca beginning on Sunday at 11 a.m. ET.
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