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Snowboarding news - Golds for Claudia Riegler and Stefan Baumeister in Bad Gastien
Claudia Riegler and Stefan Baumeister claimed World Cup parallel slalom snowboarding golds in Bad Gastein, Austria.Louise.
It was delight and a home win for Riegler as the Austrian rider delivered a sixth career World Cup showing that at 45 years old, age is just a number.
Watch Winter Sports live on Eurosport and the Eurosport Player She beat Poland’s Aleksandra Krol by just over half a second (0.63s) in the big final while another Austrian Sabine Schoeffmann pipped Swiss rider Patrizia Krummer to the final podium position.
Germany's Stefan Baumeister celebrated victory in the men's competition as he finished 0.40s faster than Switzerland's Dario Caviezel in the big final.
It was the German’s third career World Cup gold while the current overall standings leader, Benjamin Karl, had to settle for third as he denied Lukas Mathies a podium finish on home snow.