Another tragedy for the world of snowboarding: former world champion Julie Pomagalski died in an avalanche

The 40-year-old French, snowboard cross world champion in 1999 and vice world champion in PGS in 2003, died together with guide Bruno Cutelli.

Tuesday 23 March 2021 2 minutes reading time

An incredible destiny that united them, they who had been great rivals on the track. Almost twelve years after the tragedy of Karine Ruby, who fell into a crevasse on Mont Blanc, another great snowboarder of the 2000s, Julie Pomagalski, left us today. World champion in snowboard cross in Berchtesgaden in 1999, vice world champion in the parallel giant of Kreischberg in 2003, as well as sixth at the 2006 Turin Olympic Games and with nine successes in the World Cup, the French born in 1980 died under a avalanche in Switzerland. As reported by Le Matin, Pomagalski was surprised while traveling the Steintaeler area, coming down from the Gemsstock, being overwhelmed along with two other freeriders. Despite the timely rescue by helicopter, it was only possible to ascertain the death of Julie and the guide and rescuer of the CRS des Alpes in Albertville, Bruno Cutelli. Pomagalski, after retiring from competition, had worked in communications at the tourist office in Méribel, where he ran a sports shop and where he had also created a ski school.

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