Cam Bolton

Fast Facts

Sport: Snowboard
Event: Men's Snowboard Cross, Mixed Team Snowboard Cross
Olympic History: Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018, Beijing 2022
Highlights: Gold at 2019 World Cup in Germany, silver at 2019 World Cup in Austria
Coaches: Harald Bendelin, Jan Klemsa
Year Born: 1990
State Born: Victoria

About Cam

Born in Melbourne and raised on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, Cam Bolton grew up splitting his time between winters on snow and summers in the surf. He competed in both skiing and snowboarding before committing to the snowboard at 15, and he was also an accomplished surf lifesaver, winning the Under-19 state title in the 2km beach run. 

Bolton made his World Cup debut in 2011 and cracked his first top‑10 in 2013. In the lead‑up to his Olympic debut he placed fifth at the X Games in Aspen, underlining his speed and race craft. At Sochi 2014 he was Australia’s best‑performed men’s snowboard cross rider in 11th, despite a bruising semi‑final incident and a broken wrist, he made the small final. A back injury hampered much of 2016, but he returned to make a second Olympic team for PyeongChang 2018 and finished 10th after another semi‑final crash. 

His real breakthrough came in 2018–19. Bolton won his first World Cup in Feldberg, Germany, added bronze at Veysonnaz, and ended the season ranked fifth overall, then the best end‑of‑season standing by an Australian in men’s snowboard cross. He backed up with silver at Montafon in 2019–20 before sitting out most international racing in 2020–21 due to the pandemic. 

At Beijing 2022, Bolton qualified eighth in seeding, advanced to the round of 16 and finished 13th in the individual event. He then teamed with Belle Brockhoff for the Olympic debut of the mixed team snowboard cross; Australia exited in the quarter‑finals, with official results recording ninth after both Australian teams crashed in the same run.  

Bolton’s consistency at the top level showed through the next two seasons. He placed sixth in the men’s event at the 2023 World Championships in Bakuriani, Georgia, after reaching the semi‑finals. He also logged multiple top‑10 World Cup finishes, including Sierra Nevada an Cervinia 

The 2024–25 campaign was one of his most complete. He opened with an individual silver at the Cervinia World Cup in December 2024, then added a fourth place at Gudauri in March 2025 and a sixth at Cortina d’Ampezzo, with further top‑10s at Mount St Anne and elsewhere. On home snow he also won Australian New Zealand Cup races at Mt Hotham in August 2024 as part of his build‑up. These results helped him finish the 2024–25 World Cup season inside the men’s top‑10 overall. 

Team racing added fresh highlights. On 3 March 2025, Bolton and Josie Baff won Australia’s first ever World Cup gold in the mixed team snowboard cross in Erzurum, Türkiye. Bolton led out the men’s leg before Baff sealed the win by four‑hundredths of a second. Later that month at the World Championships in St Moritz–Engadin, Bolton partnered 20‑year‑old Mia Clift to a silver medal in the mixed team event, his first World Championship podium. 

Known to teammates as “Big Bird” and based in Sorrento, Victoria, Bolton has been a long‑time member of the national high‑performance program with the New South Wales Institute of Sport. Across three Olympic Games, Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 2022 and more than a decade on tour, he has evolved from promising junior to team leader, combining resilience through injury with a sustained presence at the pointy end of World Cups and now the World Championships.