Austria's Alessandro Haemmerle won gold in the men's snowboard cross final on Thursday at the Beijing Games, finishing ahead of Canadian Eliot Grondin in a neck-and-neck final race.
Haemmerle, who came in seventh at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, won the final race by 0.02 seconds, beating out Grondin, who came in 36th at the Olympics four years ago.
Canada's Grondin, who won silver, had led Thursday's races from the seeding runs, bolting over the course's opening technical section faster than all the other competitors. "I'm so happy to land on the podium at the Olympics with guys I've been battling for years," Grondin said, adding that he had grown up watching Italy's Omar Visintin compete.Visintin, 32, fell back in the final and could never make up the time, finishing after Grondin to take the bronze.
The Olympic snowboard cross course at the Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou runs for a distance of 1,310 metres and includes sharp turns, drops and jumps.
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