Eliot Grondin, Mikael Kingsbury adding to Olympic silver medal collections

It was 2022 all over again in Olympic men’s snowboard cross.

Canada’s Eliot Grondin captured silver on Thursday at Milano Cortina 2026, finishing just behind Austria’s Alessandro Haemmerle in a thrilling race.

Haemmerle and Grondin also placed 1-2 in a photo finish at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

This one was a wider gap — all of 0.03 seconds.

It marks Canada’s sixth medal at these Olympics — three silver and three bronze.

In snowboard cross, Grondin took the lead late in the race, but couldn’t quite hold off Haemmerle at the finish.

Grondin, 24, now has three career Olympic medals. He also won bronze in 2022 with Meryeta O’Dine in the team event.

Grondin captured gold at last year’s world championships, while Haemmerle got bronze. The Canadian is also the two-time reigning World Cup season champion.

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Just hours earlier, Canada’s Mikael Kingsbury also came as close as possible to gold in men’s moguls, dropping to silver on a tiebreaker when finishing with the same overall score as Australia’s Cooper Woods.

It is Kingsbury’s fourth career Olympic medal — three silver and one gold. Canada now has five medals — two silver, three bronze — at these Olympics.

Kingsbury, the second-last skier in the final, edged out Japan’s Ikuma Horishima (83.44 points) to take the lead. As the Deux-Montagnes, Que. athlete waited in the finish area, Woods put down a great run.

The same score came up, but it showed Woods in first place, triggering the Australian’s celebration.

Woods scored 48.4 turn points, while Kingsbury had 47.7.

Woods was a surprise winner. He finished ninth at last year’s world championships.

Kingsbury, 33, is the most dominant moguls skier of all time. He has 100 career World Cup wins and nine world championship golds.

The Canadian has been slowed by a groin injury this season, but still won gold at a home World Cup in Quebec last month before narrowly missing an Olympic title.