
Australia's top snowboarders have made a superb start to their top-level Winter Olympic preparations, with Josie Baff, Adam Lambert and 16-year-old Ally Hickman grabbing medals at their respective World Cup competitions.
Baff, a Youth Olympics champion who looks set to be in the mix for the senior title in Cortina next February, finished third in her four-racer women's 'Big Final' before her Jindabyne buddy Lambert replicated that result in a landmark men's race on Saturday.