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Australian teen snowboarder Valentino Guseli has underlined his phenomenal talent with another World Cup crystal globe as the season's overall park and pipe champion.
The 18-year-old, who hails from Dalmeny on the NSW south coast, sealed his triumph by winning bronze in the slopestyle event on the final day of the season at the Swiss resort of Silvaplana.
The overall title goes to the athlete who achieves the best combined results from halfpipe, big air and slopestyle events over the season, as Guseli did in 2023 with his historic triumph.
This time, victory had looked less likely as Guseli was trailing Ryoma Kimata in the standings, needing both a strong performance and an unlikely calamity from the Japanese rider.
But in slopestyle qualifying, Kimata endured his worst display of the season, finishing in 50th place, while Guseli powered into the final in first place.
Having to then finish in the top four to seal the victory, Guseli had two consistent runs in the final.
He opened with a score of 77.31 and improved to 83.77 on the second to take the bronze behind Canada's Liam Brearley (88.10) and Japan's Taiga Hasegawa (88.52).
"I am super-stoked with the way today went, in my second run I landed one of the best runs of my life," said Guseli, who now has three crystal globes to his name after having also won the big air title in 2023.
"To win the overall, which means to be the most consistent out of all three freestyle disciplines. I am honoured to have won it for the second year in a row."
On another superb weekend for Australian winter sports athletes, Cameron Bolton took silver in the World Cup snowboard cross big final in Mont-Sainte-Anne in Canada.
Bolton is third overall in the season's standings with one event left.
AAP