Australia's snowboard cross racers have claimed two silver medals on the World Cup circuit to give them the ideal boost as they prepare to go for gold at the World Championships in Switzerland.
Across the Austrian border in the winter resort of Montafon, Adam Lambert finished second in the individual men's event on Saturday before joining forces with Josie Baff as the pair took silver in the mixed team event.
Jindabyne's ever improving 27-year-old Lambert continued his terrific recent form, making it back-to-back World Cup medals as he won three races on his way to the semi-final, before qualifying second in the last-four race for the Big Final.
The lone Australian against three French riders, Loan Bozzolo, Aidan Chollet and Merlin Surget, Lambert battled from midfield and overtook Chollet in a powerful run to the finish to earn the fifth World Cup podium of his career.
Bozzolo took the gold, with Chollett third and Surget fourth.
Baff, individual silver medallist at the last world championships, got through to her fourth Big Final final of the season, but missed out on the medals, finishing last as Frenchwoman Lea Casta took gold ahead of compatriot Julia Pereira de Sousa, with Britain's Charlotte Bankes taking bronze.
The 22-year-old from Cooma, NSW, put aside her disappointment to combine for Australia's second team medal of the season, showing they should prove a formidable combination when they link up again at the global showpiece in St Moritz.
Baff was at her inspirational best in the mixed final against two French pairs and a British duo, pulling back a 0.44sec deficit and roaring through the field to only fall just short of an unlikely victory as she sprawled across the line amid a thrilling finish.
The photo-finish, though, went to the second-string French team of Pereira de Sousa and Chollet, who edged to victory by three-hundredths of a second.
Qualifying in the individual snowboard cross events in St Moritz takes place on Thursday, with the finals the next day, while the mixed team event will be on Saturday.
