Josie Baff wins snowboard cross gold for Australia
Livigno: Josie Baff has won Australia’s second gold medal of the 2026 Winter Olympics with a victory in the women’s snowboard cross final on Friday (local time).
Baff’s victory is Australia’s second gold medal of the Milano Cortina Games, after skier Cooper Woods stunned to win gold in the men’s moguls a day earlier.
Australia’s Josie Baff in the women’s snowboard cross in Livigno.Credit: Getty Images
The last time Australia won two golds at a single Winter Olympics was in 2010 when Torah Bright and Lydia Lassila won gold in Vancouver, and before that, in 2002 when Steven Bradbury and Alisa Camplin won gold in Salt Lake City.
It’s a sensational win for the 23-year-old from Jindabyne, who defeated silver medallist and world No. 7 Eva Adamczykova of Czechia and bronze medallist and world No.4 Michela Moioli of Italy in the final.
The 23-year-old from Jindabyne, who is ranked world No.2, took down some heavyweights on her way to the podium, eliminating world No.1 Charlotte Bankes and No.9 Sina Siegenthaler in the quarter-finals, and world No. 3 Julia Nirani-Pereira in the semi-finals.
Baff won Australia’s first Youth Olympics gold in 2020 in Lausanne before making her Olympic debut in Beijing in 2022 where she finished 17th overall.
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