Who says you can't win Olympic gold at age 40? This guy surely doesn't.

Competing in his fifth Games, Austrian Benjamin Karl on Sunday successfully defended his title in the men's Alpine snowboarding parallel giant slalom (PGS) at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics in Livigno, Italy. 

At 40 years, 115 days old, Karl is now the oldest individual gold medalist in Winter Olympic history, surpassing Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjorndalen's mark of 40 years, 12 days.

Scottish curler Robin Welsh remains the oldest overall Winter Olympic gold medalist at 54 years, 102 days.

Karl also eclipsed snowboarding's overall winning-age record set during the 2022 Beijing Olympics by American Nick Baumgartner, who claimed gold in mixed team snowboard cross at 40 years, 57 days old.

What's more, Karl's gold gives him four career Olympic medals, breaking a tie with 10 other snowboarders — including Shaun White, Jamie Anderson and Lindsey Jacobellis — for most-ever in the sport.

Karl beat Korean Kim Sang-Kyum in the big final. Kim himself is 37, making the combined age of just the gold and silver medalists 77 years old — a whole 12 years more than the combined podium of Saturday's big air men's final (65 years).

Karl announced in December via social media that he will retire at the end of the season. After finishing this race, he stripped off his shirt and laid face down in the snow.

"It was a tribute to Hermann Maier, maybe you know him? He was one of the greatest skiers of all time in Austria and he once did this. I always wanted to do the same," he said.

"I lost the chance in Beijing because I was so overwhelmed from emotions, and today I took the chance. I needed to wait 25 years to make this pose like Hermann Maeir. Now I did it and this is the crown of my career (laughs). I enjoyed it."

Italy's Roland Fischnaller, the event's reigning world champion, lost to Kim in the quarterfinals. At 45, he competed in his seventh Winter Olympics. Following the Games, he said he will return to being a farmer in South Tyrol.