Photo: Hartford, Vermont Police Department
A former U.S. Open Snowboarding champion has been indicted on charges of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, and fentanyl, according to the United States Attorney’s Office. Rahm Klampert entered a not guilty plea to those charges on July 31, 2025, just over a month after Vermont law enforcement seized a massive haul of drugs, weapons, and money from the 45-year-old former professional snowboarder’s home and personal training studio.
Three separate departments — the Hartford Police Department Criminal Investigations Division, Hartford Police Department Patrol Division, and the Vermont Drug Task Force — reported recovering approximately “1.1 kilograms of methamphetamine, 1.5 kilograms of cocaine, and 75 grams of fentanyl; 12 firearms including multiple suspected short-barreled shotguns, assault rifles, and handguns, three of which have been identified as stolen; a money-counter machine; and over $100,000 in U.S. currency.” According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Klampert will face a 10-year mandatory prison sentence and up to a lifetime sentence if found guilty.
Klampert competed in the late-1990s and professionally in the early 2000s. He won the Vermont State slopestyle championship in 2001 and then two U.S. Open titles in 2002 and 2004. According to his own Linkedin profile, Klampert moved on from snowboarding professionally in 2008 and began pursuing a career in fitness. He held different personal training roles in Massachusetts before starting his own business in Vermont, Rahm’s Results Fitness, in 2023. The 5,000-foot personal training facility is presumably one of the locations Vermont law enforcement raided on June 20 after multiple sources in the community informed them Klampert had been trafficking drugs.
Another former professional snowboarder made similar headlines in late 2024. The FBI offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder before then adding him to their 10 Most Wanted List earlier this year. The FBI claims Wedding is responsible for drug trafficking and murder throughout Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
