Hill gets bronze at Worlds

Photo: King Snow Snowboard Magazine/Matt Forsythe

Vernon's Kevin Hill and Chris Robanske of Squamish captured the bronze medal at the first ever team Snowboardcross World Championships event.

Riders were neck and neck until the end, with Robanske crossing the finish line in third place behind the USA’s Nick Baumgartner and Spain’s Lucas Eguibar.
 
The team event, which features a team of two riders racing in a relay style competition, officially made its World Championships debut at the Sierra Nevada, Spain on Monday morning.

For Robanske and Hill, the bronze medal was their first international podium of the season.
 
“It's been the hardest year of my life on the tour," said Robanske after the finish of the race. "Things haven't been clicking, not going well. I had bad luck, kind of a little bit of everything.”

Robanske the two-man team gave everything they had.

"So we took that, we believed in our team which is behind us, and today it worked.”
 
The Canadian national Snowboardcross team wrap up the World Cup season in Veysonnaz, Switzerland in races Mar. 24-26.
 
This is Canada’s second snowboard medal at The FIS Snowboard World Championships 2017.