NSW teen breaks snowboard iconâs world record
A NSW teenager has broken an 11-year world record for the highest half pipe jump in the Laax superpipe competition in Switzerland.
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by KELSEY HOGAN
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in the Laax superpipe competition in Switzerland.
Valentino Guseli - just 15 and hailing from Narooma - made headlines earlier this year when he blitzed the snowfield in qualifying for the 2021 Laax Open Halfpipe World Cup.
And last week, March 31, the snowboarding phenomenon jumped 7.3m from the superpipe in the ski town of Laax, breaking the previous record of 7m set in 2010 by the American multiple Olympic champion Shaun White.