Canada’s Eliot Grondin won a silver medal in men’s snowboard cross on Thursday at the Beijing Olympics.
Three-time reigning World Cup champion Alessandro Haemmerle of Austria beat out Grondin in a photo finish in the big final.
The 20-year-old native of Sainte-Marie, Que., was dominant all day, posting the fastest time in the seeding run and then winning his first-round, quarterfinal and semifinal races.
It marked Canada’s 10th medal of the Olympics.
Grondin positioned himself as an Olympic contender by finishing third at the World Championship last year. He added two medals on the World Cup circuit this season.
Grondin gives Canada two medals in snowboard cross in Beijing after Meryeta O’Dine took bronze in the women’s event Wednesday.
