A teenage Australian snowboarder from a small coastal town has just beaten a world record that was held by an American legend for 11 years.
Valentino Guseli, 16, jumped 7.3 metres on the halfpipe at the Laax superpipe competition in Switzerland, easily beating the seven metres jumped by three-time Olympic gold medalist Shaun White in 2010.
He achieved the new world record mark the day before his 16th birthday.
Valentino Guseli in training during the men s halfpipe competition in Aspen, Colorado in March 2021
The new halfpipe highest air world record holder Valentino Guseli, from Dalmeny NSW with snowboard coach Mike Lund I ve had the idea to break the world record for a pretty long time, he said.
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