Announcement comes ahead of 22 March Championships opening
GB Snowsport are delighted to welcome CMC Markets as the presenting partner for the GB Alpine Championships 2026.
A long-term fixture in the British ski racing calendar, the 2026 edition of the GB Alpine Championships are set to take place from 22 March – 14 April in the Italian resort of Santa Caterina, and stand to welcome some of the most exciting upcoming and established British and international Alpine skiing talent across FIS and Children’s race programmes.
This year’s Championships sees established GB Snowsport partners CMC take an active role in supporting the event, which will see the race piste prepared by renowned Alpine race director Omar Galli and his team, who most recently had the responsibility for delivering the Alpine hill programme in Bormio for the Milano-Cortina Olympic Winter Games.
Throughout its long history, the GB Alpine Championships has seen some of Britain’s finest Alpine skiing talent walk away with National Championship titles, with past winners including Alain Baxter, Emma Carrick-Anderson, Graham Bell, Chemmy Alcott, Dave Ryding, Ed Drake, Alex Tilley and Laurie Taylor. This year’s races are expected to feature many of Britain’s most exciting Alpine skiers in a race schedule that includes full Speed, Tech, and Children’s race programmes.
Discussing the partnership, GB Snowsport Head of Partnerships Matt Lloyd, said: “CMC Markets have been a committed supporter of GB Snowsport over recent seasons, and we are delighted that they will be presenting this year’s GB Alpine Championships.
“The GB Alpine Championships celebrate everything that is best about British Alpine skiing talent. Success in Alpine skiing takes skill, dedication, and an ability to manage risk in high-stakes situations on a day-to-day basis. These are all attributes shared by CMC, which makes them a natural fit for what promises to be an incredibly exciting Championships.”
Laurence Booth, Global Head of Markets, CMC Markets, added: “We’re proud to present the 2026 GB Alpine Championships and continue our support of GB Snowsport. The Championships are a key moment in the British Alpine calendar and an important platform for both emerging and established athletes. We’re excited to support an event that helps showcase the strength and future of British Alpine skiing.”
The GB Alpine Championships presented by CMC open on 23 March with Downhill Training, with National Championships races scheduled for 25 March (Downhill), 26 March (Super G), 28-29 March (Giant Slalom), and 31 March (Slalom). The first races of the Children’s programme will take place on 7 April, with the Championships closing on 14 April.
Milano-Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games draw to a close, while Charlotte Bankes and Freddy Carrick-Smith take World Cup and World Junior Championships podiums
Simpson and Poth named flagbearers as Milano-Cortina Games draw to a close
Neil SImpson and Rob Poth, ParalympicsGB’s sole medal winners at the Milano-Cortina Paralympic Winter Games, were named as Closing Ceremony flagbearers as the 2026 Games drew to a close. Silver medallists in the Alpine Combined event, the pair experienced a frustrating end to the Games’ races with a DNF in the VI Slalom, before carrying the flag alongside curler Jo Butterfield.
Elsewhere, Brits pointed to a promising future in the final weekend of Paralympic Games skiing action with strong showings from a young Para Alpine cohort including Dom Allen, Sam Cozens, Hester Poole, and an impressive final race of the Games from Menna Fitzpatrick. Scott Meenagh, meanwhile, drew his storied Paralympic Winter Games career to a close, the legendary sit skier bringing to an end a journey which broke the mould for Britain’s standing in Para Nordic skiing.
Bankes soars to top of SBX standings with Montafon World Cup bronze
Charlotte Bankes’ bid for a third career Snowboard Cross Crystal Globe received a boost as she finished third at the Montafon World Cup, leaping rival Lea Casta to top the standings in the process.
After battling through qualifiers in twelfth position, Bankes’ raced with her customary nous and determination to reach the Big Final, holding on for bronze after a difficult start. With previous overall leader Casta finishing seventh, Bankes now sits thirteen points clear at the top of the table on 373, with Casta on 360, and Australia’s Josie Baff third on 339.
Freddy Carrick-Smith seals World Junior Championships silver
Freddy Carrick-Smith added another notch to his impressive Alpine track record with silver in the Men’s Alpine WJC Slalom. Carrick-Smith, who sat in second behind brother Luca at the turn, put down a composed second run to seal a first World Junior Championships podium of his career, and cement his standing as one of Britain’s most promising Alpine skiers in a generation.
Elsewhere, Zak Carrick-Smith also skied into a top-10 finish in the GS after a blistering second run performance saw him catapult up the standings from a mid-20s berth to the top-10.
And the rest…
Jaz Taylor finished just outside the podiums in the latest round of Telemark World Cup races, coming fourth in Parallel Sprint in Bardonecchia…
Andrew Musgrave was the pick of the Cross-Country World Cup showings, finishing 23rd in the Men’s 50k Mass Start in Oslo…
Ollie Davies secured a top-30 berth in the Montafon Ski Cross World Cup, finishing in 29th position.
Muir seals fourth to deliver Britain’s best ever Olympic Freeski big Air result
Kirsty Muir captured the hearts of the nation with a sensational performance in one of the most progressive women’s Freeski competitions ever witnessed on the Olympic stage.
Giving it absolutely everything she had, Muir sealed her second fourth place finish of the Games, surpassing her previous Olympic best of fifth and Great Britain’s best-ever result in Olympic Freeski Big Air.
She opened her final with a beautifully executed right double 1080 mute, stomping the landing to get her first score on the board of 81.75 and immediately put her in contention.
She then raised the bar even higher, throwing down with a massive left double 1620 safety – one of only two 1620s landed in the entire field, to move into a podium position with a combined score of 174.75.
Dropping in reverse order, Muir remained in medal contention until the closing stages, until Italy’s Flora Tabanelli matched her left double 16 to edge ahead and push the Brit outside the podium places by just 3.50 points. Unable to land her final run, Muir ultimately sealed fourth place.
While a medal narrowly eluded her, courage, composure and sportsmanship embodies everything it means to be an Olympian, further cementing her status an icon of the sport.
TWO IN THE TOP 20 IN MEN’S SLALOM AS RYDING SIGNS OFF on Olympic CAREER
Dave Ryding marked an incredible end to his legendary Olympic career, dropping into his fifth and final Winter Olympic Games, lining up alongside teammates Billy Major and Laurie Taylor in the men’s Slalom.
Billy Major had a standout charge, laying down an impressive first run to sit 13th at the halfway mark. He followed it up with another strong showing, clocking a combined time of 1:57.25 to secure 16th overall – a powerful response to his DNF on Olympic debut at Beijing 2022 and clear evidence of his continued progression on the world stage.
Ryding followed close behind, sitting in 19th after the opening run, he gave it everything he had on his second run to climb into 17th place, just 0.23 seconds behind Major, ensuring he signed off with another top-20 Olympic finish.
Taylor unfortunately recorded a DNF on the first run after straddling a gate midway down the course, ending his fight early. Nonetheless, his presence alongside Major and Ryding, marked a significant moment for British Alpine Skiing, with three athletes starting in the top 30 at an Olympic Games.
It was a fitting conclusion to Ryding’s extraordinary Olympic journey, while Major and Taylor continue to build momentum as part of an exciting new chapter for British Slalom.
NEIL SIMPSON CLAIMS PARA ALPINE SILVER FOR FIFTH WORLD CUP MEDAL OF THE SEASON
Neil Simpson continued his impressive World Cup campaign with another top performance at the Para Alpine World Cup in Meribel, securing silver in Slalom to claim his fifth World Cup podium of the season. Guided by Rob Poth, the pair produced a strong showing to finish just 0.43 seconds off the top spot, marking Simpson’s first Slalom podium of the season.
The duo continued their week with two consecutive Giant Slalom races, finishing 6th in the first, before recording a DNF2 on day two.
PODIUM PERFORMANCE FROM BARNES-MILLER IN PARA SNOWBOARD CORSS
James Barnes-Miller stepped onto the podium at Big White to claim third place and his first Snowboard Cross medal of the season. The 36-year-old took an impressive third place behind Aron Fahrni of Switzerland and second placed Jacopo Luchini of Italy for his first SBX World Cup medal since February 2025. Ollie Hill finished 15th on day one of competition, but showed clear progression on day two, racing to eighth place after qualifying for the small final.
FINAL ALPINE WORLD CUP BEFORE THE OLYMPIC STAGE
Dave Ryding, Billy Major and Laurie Taylor lined up in Schladming for their final Slalom World Cup ahead of the Milan-Cortina Olympic Games. Ryding secured a place inside the top 30 on his opening run, before recording a DNF on run two. Major and Taylor both battled hard but narrowly missed qualification. Luca Carrick-Smith also saw his race cut short with a first run DNF on the demanding course.
Elsewhere, Owen Vinter took on his first Downhill World Cup in Crans Montana, finishing 57th and gaining valuable experience on the World Cup circuit.
SKI CROSS DOUBLE HEADER FOR DAVIES
Ollie Davies returned to action in with a Ski Cross World Cup double header in Val di Fassa. He finished 37th on day one, just a few spots away from qualifying, before placing 42nd on day two. The back-to-back races provided important mileage in the final phase of preparation ahead of his second Olympic Games.
Five medals, three of them gold, see Zoe Atkin, Mia Brookes, and Kirsty Muir make history
Gold Rush in Aspen
British athletes stormed to an historic five-medal showing at X Games 2026, with Zoe Atkin, Mia Brookes, and Kirsty Muir all leaving an indelible mark on the most storied of freestyle sport competitions.
Gold medal winning performance Atkin in Freeski Halfpipe, Brookes in Snowboard Slopestyle, and Muir in Freeski Slopestyle were backed up by Big Air silver and bronze medals for Muir and Brookes respectively, giving British athletes their biggest ever X Games medal haul, and confirming Britain’s standing as one of the most progressive nations in Park & Pipe competition.
Brookes kicked things off in spectacular style with a dominant Slopestyle victory, before Atkin put her own polish on proceedings with gold in the Superpipe. Brookes’ day two Big Air medal, delivered with a signature cab-14, put Britain at three podiums from three performanecs, before Muir capped things off in spectacular form with a brace of day three medals, and a best ever set of British X Games results.
Ryding signs off in Kitzbuehel with 20th
On a slope steeped in British Slalom history, Dave Ryding marked his final Kitzbuehel performance with a battling 20th place finish. The site of three of Ryding’s seven World Cup podiums, Kitzbuehel was written into British history when the country’s greatest ever Alpine ski racer took the nation’s first ever Slalom World Cup victory there in 2022, before following it up with a second place finish just a year later. While a fourth Kitzbuehel podium never appeared in the offing, Ryding was nevertheless the pick of the Brits, finishing just over a second outside of the top-10.
Billy Major secured a fifth top-30 berth of the season finishing in 24th, while Laurie Taylor was a first run DNQ and Luca Carrick-Smith a first run DNF, while in the Speed events Roy Steudle recorded a Super-G DNF and 53rd in Downhill.
Para squad deliver solid performances in Lenk and Jakuszyce
The Para Nordic and Para Snowboard squads recorded solid performances in the Jakuszyce Para Biathlon World Cup and Lenk Para Snowboard Cross World Cup and Europa Cup races, as teams gear up towards the Paralympic Winter Games in early March.
In Para Nordic, Scott Meenagh‘s best result came in the 7.5km Sprint where he finished fifth, before coming eighth and seventh in the Sprint Pursuit and 12.5km Individual events.
In Para Snowboard, James Barnes-Miller came closest to a medal finishing sixth and fourth in back-to-back showings, while Ollie Hill took seventh and ninth berths. In the Europa Cup field, Davy Zyw took his third EC podium of the season, and first in SBX, with a third place finish.
Taylor victorious in Melchsee-Frutt
Jaz Taylor added another Telemark World Cup victory to her illustrious record, winning the first of back-to-back Parallel Sprint World Cups in Melchsee-Frutt. The result gives Taylor her third podium and second victory of the 2025/26 World Cup season, and the third of her career in Melchsee-Frutt.
28 March – 14 April 2025, Santa Caterina, Italy
We are delighted to confirm that race entries for the FIS and Children’s GB Alpine Championships 2026 are now open.
Following on from a very successful 2025 Championship we are delighted to announce that we will be returning to Santa Caterina, Italy for the GB Alpine Championships 2026 with continued support from MVA, the award winning online school.
The organising team will be running a full programme, with FIS races being run from 22nd March to 1st April and Children’s races from 6th to 14th April. All races will be run on the Deborah Compagnoni piste in Santa Caterina. We are very much looking forward to working with Omar Galli and his team who will have been running the hill team in Bormio at the Olympic Winter Games.
For more details, including invitations and a detailed race programme, visit the GB Alpine Championships hub here.
A jam-packed week saw success across multiple disciplines for GB Snowsport athletes
Neil Simpson goes four-from-four in Para Alpine
Neil Simpson delivered a series of standout performances at the Saalbach Para Alpine World Cup, taking four podiums from four races across Downhill and Super-G disciplines. A pair of DH bronze medals, guided by Andrew Simpson and by Rob Poth, and Super-G silver and bronze with Poth and Simpson respectively guiding made it a blue ribbon week for a discipline steeped in British Paralympic heritage.
Bankes’ brilliance to the fore in Snowboard Cross
Charlotte Bankes showed her world class standing in back-to-back World Cups in Dongbeiya, China, taking gold and bronze on consecutive days. A dominant performance in the weekend’s first race saw Bankes top the standings in qualifiers, quarters, semis, and finals, while the second day’s competition saw her grab bronze in a tightly-contested final races.
On the men’s side, Huw Nightingale continued to show his ability to mix it with the best in the world coming 17th in the weekend’s first contest after qualifying in 14th, while in the second of the weekend’s races, Max Vardy progressed to the knockout stages for the first time before finishing in 20th place.
Barnes-Miller bags silver in Kuehtai Para Snowboard World Cup
James Barnes-Miller grabbed a sensational silver medal in the Kuehtai Para Snowboard Banked Slalom World Cup alongside a seventh place finish in a typically competitive Men’s UL field. Barnes-Miller’s podium, his first of the World Cup season, came amid a week of strong Para Snowboard performances across the board, with Ollie Hill also taking a top-five finish, Nina Sparks twice finishing inside the top-ten, and Davy Zyw taking a brace of Europa Cup podiums with a silver and a bronze.
Taylor takes Telemark silver
Jaz Taylor‘s podium successes continued with a silver medal winning performance in the first of back-to-back Carezza World Cup races, and giving her a second podium of the season following her Sprint World Cup win in Pinzolo in December.
And the rest…
The Men’s Slalom team faced down battling conditions in the Lauberhorn slope in Wengen, with Luca Carrick-Smith the pick of the bunch, finishing 34th after the first run in a personal best World Cup showing. Billy Major and Laurie Taylor came in 41st and 42nd on the first run respectively, while Dave Ryding was a first run DNF with a straddle.
The Women’s night Slalom in Flachau saw Vici Palla record a first run DNF.
In Cross-Country, James Clugnet delivered the weekend’s best showing, finishing 32nd in Sprint Free qualifying to narrowly miss out on Finals, while in Moguls Makayla Gerken Schofield finished 26th in the individual women’s event in a race week impacted by poor weather conditions.
She Who Dares and Keep Calm and Slalom to focus on some of country’s biggest name athletes ahead of Milan-Cortina Games
GB Snowsport athletes are set to feature in two major new TNT Sports documentaries in the build-up to the Milan-Cortina Olympic Winter Games.
Coming shortly before the first Winter Olympics on a European timezone since Sochi 2014, both documentaries have seen film crews and producers granted unprecedented access to some of Britain’s most exciting ski and snowboard athletes, and will provide a new and unique viewpoint on the journey towards Milan-Cortina.
She Who Dares
In She Who Dares, the experiences of female Freestyle stars Zoe Atkin, Charlotte Bankes, Mia Brookes, Makayla Gerken Schofield, and Kirsty Muir as well as GB Snowsport chief Executive, Vicky Gosling, will be brought to the fore, giving viewers a chance to gain unique insight into the preparation and reflections of the some of the biggest names in women’s snowsport through their build-up towards the Olympic Winter Games.
Filmed over almost a year, the documentary will give new and experienced fans the most in-depth view yet of the characters behind some of Britain’s most remarkable sporting successes of recent years.
Keep Calm and Slalom
Billed as an underdog story in the greatest tradition of British sporting successes, Keep Calm and Slalom follows the Men’s Alpine World Cup team of Billy Major, Dave Ryding, and Laurie Taylor as the three push for selection for the Milan-Cortina Games. Up against teams with budgets far in excess of their own, the documentary team goes behind-the-scenes with the team as they travel for training and World Cup competitions in a bid to secure the spots needed to represent Team GB in Milan-Cortina.
Both documentaries will premiere on TNT Sports later this month, ahead of the opening of the Milan-Cortina Games in 6 February.
Find out more here.
Britain to be represented in Andorra, Slovenia, Croatia, and Italy by 10-athlete teams
Following a meeting of the GB Snowsport selection committee, we are delighted to confirm that 30 athletes have been selected to represent the nation as members of the 2025/26 British Children’s Ski Team.
The BCST will enter teams into races at U14 and U16 level in Arcalia Borrufa (Andorra), Soriska Planina (Slovenia), Rijeka-Platak (Croatia), and Folgaria (Italy) with ten athletes due to race at each meet.
Everyone at GB Snowsport would like to offer warm congratulations and good luck to each athlete selected.
Arcalia Borrufa Races
U14 Female
- Sylvia Curtis
- Lottie Williams
U14 Male
- Elliot Walker
- Alex Owen
U16 Female
- Darcy Davies
- Scarlett McLaughlin
U16 Male
- Nathaniel Stringer
- Henry Pratt
- Lewis Oakes
- Robert Savage
Soriska Planina (SLO) and Rijeka-Platak (CRO) races
U14 Female
- Jolie Welsh
- Hattie Taylor
U14 Male
- Brian Zhu
- Henry Hawkins
U16 Female
- Tallulah Winter
- Ava Sheloff
U16 Male
- Gabriel Welsh
- Henry Stoneham
- Edward Lloyd
- Charlie Miller
Folgaria (ITA) races
U14 Female
- Cecilia Hamer
- Giselle Davies
U14 Male
- Joshua Taylor
- Max Hannah
U16 Female
- Lily Flitton
- Audrey Curtis
- Emma-Josephine Martineau-Fortin
U16 Male
- Sebastien Anthony
- Xavier Poynton
- Rufus Wontner