Twenty meters below the surface of the water probably isn’t where you’d expect to find three of the GB Freeski Park & Pipe team during summer training.
But in the year building up to an Olympic Winter Games, business-as-usual goes out the window, and deep underwater goes our Freeski training.
The initiative – a performance mindset camp conducted through the medium of freediving and devised by Freeski High Performance Coach Joe Tyler – was designed to help World Cup squad members Kirsty Muir, Chris McCormick, and Tom Greenway address their psychological responses to fear, stress, and uncertainty, a vital skill as each looks to develop their armoury in the build-up to Milan-Cortina.
“We wanted to design a programme that could expose each of the guys to their own minds in a different way and a different environment,” Tyler explains. “What we set out to do was find a safe and emotionally supportive setting to implement a programme of that nature, and what we landed on worked really well for the guys involved.
“A lot of it started in conversations with Kirsty, Chris, and Tom, initially about what they loved about skiing, and then about their perceptions of what was happening in their minds in their best moments, but also what their emotional regulation patterns were, what they were each doing in their day-to-day approach to competition and training.
“That really gave me the basis of a good framework for what we needed to do, as coaches, to help them unlock something new ahead of next season.”
Inspiration for the camp emerged from Tyler’s own experiences as an athlete and as a coach, and the mental toolkit that he would have liked to have available to him throughout his own competitive career.
“The idea probably came from my life, in a way,” Tyler explains. “When I used to be a professional skier myself, I used a lot of other activities to help me deal with certain situations, and once I began coaching I started using it more and more because I was seeing how mindset was such a critical thing for the athletes I was working with.”
“In the past, we’d recommended to athletes that they maybe try different activities to give them new tools to deal with situations they might come up against in the sport, but we’d never really had a structured environment to put them into action systemically, and that meant we weren’t really hitting the points I was hoping for as a coach and as someone who’d seen the benefit of this sort of approach in my own experiences.
“We’d identified a need to help the guys centre themselves in the present moment, and we identified a medium which was perfect for that, because it demands of you the ability to relax. Putting yourself below the water means you have got to relax in your body, and you’ve got to relax in your mind, because every distraction from that uses more oxygen in an environment where you need to use the least that you possible can.
“I had those exact same experiences the first time I did freediving, I felt the stress response of it and learned so much about the regulation of that stress, and that’s something that really stayed with me as I was thinking about how that same process might benefit our guys.”
Last season saw sprinkled with highlights for the Freeski Park skiers. In her injury comeback season, Kirsty Muir looked immediately competitive, landing four World Cup top 10 finishes including a maiden World Cup victory in March in Tignes. Chris McCormick was inside the top 20 four times at World Cup level, and again at the World Championships in Engadin. James Pouch saw a career-high sixteenth place finish at the Klagenfurt World Cup. Tom Greenway secured a third career World Cup top 30 finish in Stubai.
Still, the coaching staff around the team saw opportunities to find a new cutting edge ahead of the Olympic season. As Tyler explains, “there’s a whole performance journey that every athlete that we look after is on. For some of them, that’s got a real specific focus on the Olympics this winter, but there’s plenty of other athletes at other stages in their performance journey that we’re really mindful of. As coaches, when we’re working with athletes, there’s a really meaningful system that we’re building around them that covers all areas: Sports Psychology, Performance Lifestyle, and of course, coaching itself, so anything we look to implement is always about complementing the building blocks that we have in place already.”
With pre-season training plans in development, alongside highly targeted air bag and on-snow coaching blocks in Europe and New Zealand the coaching team, opted to implement Tyler’s proposal for a mindset focused camp for Greenway, McCormick, and Muir (circumstances prevented Pouch’s attendance).
While the genesis of the idea came from Tyler, the development and buy-in was a team effort.
“I’d been part of a study last summer with Emma Wood who works for UK Sports Institute, and through some of what we explored in that study and some thinking I’d been doing on these sort of tools to help with athlete psychology, the idea of a programme began to come together.
“Towards the end of last season, I had a lot of conversations with Jamie [Matthew, GB Snowsport Freeski Head Coach] and Pat [Sharples, GB Snowsport Head Coach] about the concept of how we support the athletes better when they’re approaching high-pressure situations in the sport, and how we could try to give them a bit of an internal mental training scenario to help them understand how they could deal with those situations better.”
With Matthew and Sharples both immediately supportive, Tyler began designing the programme with input from a range of specialists, while looking for a unique programme structure and activity as the template to help hit specific performance psychology targets responding to what he and other coaches were observing in the approaches of their athletes.
Working closely with Oli Cacioppo an instructor from Delphy Pool, the programme Tyler developed set out a structure that would allow athletes to meet their own minds in an environment specifically shaped to their needs.
The programme used freediving as a mirror – a way to compress mindset repetitions that would usually unfold over months into a series of back-to-back encounters with pressure, helping athletes uncover and train their regulation responses in real time.
Unsurprisingly, for such an introspective exercise, each team member’s response to the programme unfolded with distinct differences, but a central connecting theme that each athlete became aware of their own patterns of response to the experience, as well as the responses shown by the other athletes.
For Tyler, those individual responses were the key to what he hopes will be the success of the project.
“One of the things that was immediately amazing to see was the similarities between how each of the guys was approaching this programme, and how they approach their sport, and each of them was very aware of the others’ approach to that too.
“There’s been a really interesting set of residual effects for each of them too. We’re seeing different approaches already in terms of their engagement with support staff, and in terms of what specific parts each of them want to take from it moving into the new season.
“As a coaching team, our job now is to reinforce and drive it behind the scenes, so that they’re getting real-time experiences that help to strengthen the response even more, even as we get back into the normal day-to-day of the sport.”
For now, the team are back in more familiar surrounds, with a major southern hemisphere training camp taking place alongside the wider GB Snowsport Park & Pipe team. Deep water replaced by high mountains, and the jumps and features that will allow them to hone their technical repertoire ahead of what stands to be one of the biggest seasons in recent memory. But while the waters of Cornwall may be thousands of miles away, Tyler’s hope is that the psychological benefits of those minutes spent deep below the surface will transfer themselves to each athlete’s approach to the coming season.
“Seeing how they dealt with the situation in the freediving setting, watching them meet their own minds consistently 20, 30 times a day, it had a real impact. In that environment, they’re training their minds over and over again, and they can’t avoid that.
“Once they find themselves in those high-pressure environments in skiing, which they’re all going to face this season, it’s different. It’s maybe once a day, sometimes, but they’ve each now got a practical application of what’s going on in specific moments for them, in their fight or flight responses, or when they’re building themselves up for a run or a trick. Through what they did on that camp, they’ve not just learned it, they’ve actually lived it, and in a way that mimicked what they have to go through in this sport so clearly that it blew me away.”
The foundations have been laid on the snow, and beneath the waters. Now it’s time to see what they can build above them.
Seven Freeski and eight Freestyle Snowboard athletes named in World Cup squads for 2025/26 season
Fifteen World Cup squad athletes and seven Next Generation squad athletes have been selected to represent GB Snowsport in international Park & Pipe competition through the 2025/26 season.
In a seven athlete Freeski World Cup squad, reigning World Champion and Crystal Globe winner Zoe Atkin and 17-year-old breakthrough star Liam Richards are selected in Halfpipe. They will be joined by 2014 Olympic Winter Games silver medallist Gus Kenworthy, who returns to the international stage for the first time since the Beijing Olympic Winter Games in 2022. Kirsty Muir, who took her maiden World Cup victory last season on return from a serious knee injury, will compete in Slopestyle and Big Air alongside the returning Men’s World Cup team from last year of Tom Greenway, Chris McCormick, and James Pouch.
The Freestyle Snowboard World Cup squad will see eight athletes line up in British colours, with double Crystal Globe champion Mia Brookes, Maisie Hill, Charlie Lane, Txema Mazet-Brown, Katie Ormerod, Emily Rothney, and Ethan Smith all set to compete in Big Air and Slopestyle competitions. Siddhartha Ulla is once again named to the World Cup squad in the Halfpipe.
Meanwhile, seven highly promising young athletes have been selected to the Freestyle Snowboard Next Generation squad, with Saul Brown, Roahan Duncan, Kai Hamaini, Riley Sharpe, Fedde Smith, and Chase Weatherley all named in the Big Air and Slopestyle disciplines, with Aaron Wild selected for Halfpipe.
Speaking after confirmation of selections, GB Snowsport Performance Director Kearnan Myall said:
“Britain’s track record in Park & Pipe competition over recent years has been extraordinary, and we have every confidence that this year’s squads will continue to set new standards at the very highest levels of the sport.
“For every one of our athletes this will be a hugely important season, and we look forward to seeing each of them go out and perform to their full potential in the year ahead.”
The 2025-26 season will see British athletes compete in World Cup competition across three continents before the Milan-Cortina Olympic Winter Games kicks off in Italy in February.
Full Squad Selections:
Freeski – World Cup squad
- Zoe Atkin (Halfpipe)
- Tom Greenway (Big Air and Slopestyle)
- Gus Kenworthy (Halfpipe)
- Chris McCormick (Big Air and Slopestyle)
- Kirsty Muir (Big Air and Slopestyle)
- James Pouch (Big Air and Slopestyle)
- Liam Richards (Halfpipe)
Freestyle Snowboard – World Cup squad
- Mia Brookes (Big Air and Slopestyle)
- Maisie Hill (Big Air and Slopestyle)
- Charlie Lane (Big Air and Slopestyle)
- Txema Mazet-Brown (Big Air and Slopestyle)
- Katie Ormerod (Big Air and Slopestyle)
- Emily Rothney (Big Air and Slopestyle)
- Ethan Smith (Big Air and Slopestyle)
- Siddhartha Ullah (Halfpipe)
Freestyle Snowboard – Next Generation squad
- Saul Brown (Big Air and Slopestyle)
- Roahan Duncan (Big Air and Slopestyle)
- Kai Hamaini (Big Air and Slopestyle)
- Riley Sharpe (Big Air and Slopestyle)
- Fedde Smith (Big Air and Slopestyle)
- Chase Weatherley (Big Air and Slopestyle)
- Aaron Wild (Halfpipe)
Freestyle star takes Britain’s first World Championships title of 2025
Zoe Atkin has become Britain’s latest Freestyle World Champion after an incredible Freeski Halfpipe victory at the 2025 Freestyle World Championships in Engadin/St. Moritz.
Sitting in last place going into her second and final run, Atkin delivered a masterclass in performing under pressure landing a 93.50 run to take victory ahead of China’s Fanghui Li by just 0.5 points.
The result gives Atkin a third career World Championships medal following bronze in the 2021 World Championships and silver at the 2023 edition, and confirms her ascent and standing as one of the finest Halfpipe skiers of her generation.
Speaking afterwards, Zoe said:
“I feel amazing – I’m World Champion! I’m going to go celebrate, I’m going to eat all the Swiss chocolate I have in my bedroom, I’m going to have a drink out on the patio, I’m just so excited!
“I was so nervous going into my second run so to be able to put it down when the pressure was on felt so good, and to come back after I got third at my first World Champs and second at my second Champs, it just feels so good, I’m so excited!”
As the season draws towards a close, British athletes continued to set new standards across Europe
Taylor takes double bronze at Telemark World championships
Jaz Taylor‘s incredible season continued at the Telemark World Championships with a brace of bronze medals in the Sprint and Classic disciplines.
Having shown imperious form throughout the season to lead the overall World Cup standings, Taylor’s competitive pedigree remained on full show at the 2025 Telemark World Championships as she secured third place finishes in two events alongside a fourth place in the Parallel Sprint. Remarkably Taylor’s showing marked the second time she has taken multiple medals at a single World Championships, having left the 2023 Murren World Championships with silver and bronze.
The Telemark calendar now shifts back to World Cup races, with a single meet left and the Overall Crystal Globe title still on the line, with Taylor holding the advantage against Argeline Tan Bouquet in second place.
Jeannesson records best ever British World Championships Moguls result
Mateo Jeannesson confirmed his status as one of Britain’s most exciting young talents, with the best ever result for a British Moguls skier at World Championships. Jeannesson’s fifth place in the Dual Moguls competition goes one better than the country’s previous best performances, set by Makayla Gerken Schofield in 2023 and Thomas Gerken Schofield in 2021.
Elsewhere in the Moguls competitions, there were top-30 finishes for Makayla Gerken-Schofield (23rd in Moguls, 27th in Dual Moguls) and Cali Carr on her World Championships debut (28th in Moguls, 25th in Dual Moguls).
Bronze for Bankes and Nightingale impresses in pre-World Championships World Cup
The Montafon Snowboard Cross World Cup saw impressive showings for Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale as both tuned up for the start of the SBX World Championships programme this week.
In the individual World Cup races, Bankes secured third spot and a sixth individual women’s World Cup podium, while in the Men’s contest Nightingale came in in 21st place, his joint highest World Cup finish of the season.
The Team event saw Bankes and Nightingale make it through to the Big Final before being pipped at the last stage, taking fourth place with a World Championships team event to follow this week.
Cross-Country World Cup season draws to a close with brace of top-10s
Andrew Musgrave and the Sprint team of James Clugnet and Andrew Young brought the Cross-Country World Cup season to a close with a brace of top-10 finishes in Lahti.
The Team Sprint saw Clugnet and Young ski with great skill and speed to book tenth place in a stacked field for the country’s highest Team Sprint finish this season, while the 50km C gave Musgrave a seventh top-10 finish of the season as he also finished in tenth position to close off another outstanding season for the pre-eminent British Cross-Country skier of his generation.
Slew of Slopestyle top-20s for World Championship Brits
The Freestyle World Championships Snowboard and Freeski Slopestyle contests delivered five top-20 finishes with Mia Brookes (6th), Kirsty Muir (6th), Maisie Hill (14th), Katie Ormerod (16th), and Chris McCormick (17th) all hitting the higher marks. For Brookes the result represented a good showing having been suffeirng with illness since the beginning of the Championships, while for Muir it marks another excellent performance in the context of her continued return from injury. Hill and Ormerod both looks in good form in the Snowboard field, while McCormick delivered an outstanding run with only one small mistake towards the end of the run denying him a place in Finals.
Meanwhile, Txema Mazet-Brown came in 45th, Tom Greenway 39th, and James Pouch 36th, while in Ski Cross Ollie Davies took 32nd and Scott Johns 36th.
Kirsty Muir topped the podium, Billy Major climbed into the top-10, Maisie Hill landed a career best World Cup result, and Mia Brookes took the overall Globe in another superb week for Brits on snow
Muir breaks new ground in Tignes
Kirsty Muir‘s comeback from injury went into overdrive at the Tignes Freeski Big Air and Slopestyle World Cup, with two Finals appearances culminating in a career first World Cup victory in Slopestyle.
Following a serious knee injury sustained in December 2023, Muir spent more than 14 months out of action before making an encouraging return at the Aspen World Cup in February, immediately returning to the top-10 with an eighth place finish in the Slopestyle contest. Following another top-10 in Stoneham in late February, Muir landed another in the Tignes Big Air competition, finishing seventh, before raising her game to new levels to finish top of the standings in the Slopestyle event.
Elsewhere in Tignes, the best British performance came from Chris McCormick with 25th place in the Men’s Slopestyle, with James Pouch also notching a top-30 finish, coming 29th in Big Air.
Mia Brookes misses Flachau, wins Crystal Globe, while Maisie Hill secures career best finish
Mia Brookes put the seal on a stunning World Cup season by taking the Overall Snowboard Park & Pipe Crystal Globe, despite missing out on the Flachau Slopestyle World Cup.
Brookes was one of a number of athletes who elected to sit out the season closing World Cup competition, which saw the Men’s competition abandoned due to declining conditions across the week, but with final results taken from qualification runs, Brookes nevertheless ended up clear at the top of the Crystal Globe standings, taking her first Overall title and her second Globe of the season following confirmation of the Big Air crown earlier in the season.
Maisie Hill, meanwhile, performed superbly to finish in fifth place off the back of a superb qualifying round which had put her into third spot in her heat, a result that gives the 24-year-old her best ever World Cup finish just a year on from her return from career-threatening injury.
Billy Major breaks top-10 with excellent performance in Hafjell
Billy Major‘s Slalom World Cup season drew to a close with a best-ever World Cup finish, finishing ninth in Hafjell.
Sitting 14th at the turn, Billy delivered the sixth fastest second run in the field to propel him into the top 10 of a World Cup for the first time in his career and put a proud finish to another excellent season for Britain’s Men’s Slalom World Cup team.
Dave Ryding took a ninth World Cup top 20 of the season with seventeenth spot, while Laurie Taylor recorded a first run DNF in a nevertheless excellent season.
Meenagh podiums in Torsby to end Para Biathlon season in top-3
Scott Meenagh notched his first Para Biathlon World Cup podium of the season in the final World Cup race of 2024/25, finishing third in the Torsby Sprint World Cup.
The result, which comes off the back of a season of remarkable consistency from Meenagh, helped propel him into the top-3 of the overall standings, and delivered a richly deserved podium moment for one of Britain’s most trailblazing para snowsport starts.
And the rest…
The Moguls World Cup season drew to a close with World Cup Finals in Livigno, taking place on the course scheduled to host the event at next year’s Olympic Winter Games. Mateo Jeannesson finished 19th in Dual Moguls and 29th in Individual Moguls, while Makayla Gerken Schofield finished 15th and 22nd in Duals and Individuals respectively.
The Cross-Country squad followed up their successful World Championships campaign with a return to the World Cup tour in Oslo, Andrew Young taking the team’s best result with a 32nd place finish in the 10km F.
20-year-old victorious in only fifth World Cup competition following serious injury
Kirsty Muir sealed her maiden World Cup victory with a sensational performance at the Tignes Slopestyle World Cup this morning.
Having only returned to action from a serious knee injury in February, Muir’s performances in Tignes were a stunning showcase of the young Scot’s talent, delivering a richly-deserved victory after missing more than a year of competitive action.
Qualifying in first spot, Muir’s opening run of Finals was enough to propel her into top spot, a position she held ahead of Australia’s Abi Harrigan and New Zealand’s Ruby Star Andrews in second and third respectively.
Speaking afterwards, Kirsty said:
“I’m just so stoked, just over the moon, super happy to get a clean run down and make it onto the top of the podium for the first time.
“This just gives me the confidence that I’m back after my injury, and I’m back stronger than I was which is even better. This is what I wanted, and here I am – first World Cup win, and after my knee, I’m just so stoked!“
Jamie Matthew, GB Snowsport Freeski Head Coach, said:
“Kirsty has been working hard for over a year now coming back from her knee injury. It’s incredible to see all that hard work pay off with her first World Cup win today.
“We have a great team around her and she’s stuck to her plan and goals every step of the way these past 14 months, so it’s very exciting to have her back where she belongs – at the top of women’s freeskiing.”
GB Snowsport are delighted to confirm an 18-athlete travelling squad will represent the nation at this month’s Freestyle World Championships in St. Moritz/Engadin.
The squad, which is the largest ever to represent Britain in a Freestyle World Championships setting, features a roll call of some of the best Freestyle skiers and snowboarders in the world, and a raft of bright young talent making a mark on the world stage across multiple disciplines including eight World Championships stage debutants.
2023 World Champions Mia Brookes (Freestyle Snowboard Slopestyle) and Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale (Team Snowboard Cross) are joined by reigning Junior World Champions Mateo Jeannesson (Individual Moguls) and Txema Mazet-Brown (Freestyle Snowboard Big Air), current 2024/25 Freeski Halfpipe joint-Crystal Globe holder Zoe Atkin, and a host of World Cup podiuming athletes across multiple disciplines.
Opening on Wednesday 19 March with Moguls, the 2025 World Championships run until Sunday 30 March with British representation across Moguls, Ski Cross, Snowboard Cross, Freestyle Snowboard (Big Air. Slopestyle and Halfpipe) and Freeski (Big Air, Slopestyle, and Halfpipe).
Speaking after selections, GB Snowsport Head Coach, Pat Sharples, said:
“This year’s Freestyle World Championships is a huge moment for GB Snowsport, and I’m extremely excited about the depth of talent in the team that’s been selected to compete. Bakuriani 2023 gave us so many incredible moments, and I know everyone around the team is focused on performing to their best and hopefully giving us plenty more memorable moments over the next few weeks.
“It’s great to have a team that combines great experience with youthful promise; everyone selected and all the coaches and support teams behind them deserve huge credit for creating such an exciting and competitive group of athletes.”
Charlotte Bankes (Snowboard Cross) said:
“This has been another tough but positive season, and heading into World Championships I’m really happy with where my form’s at.
“Obviously last time out in Bakuriani was really special, winning the team event alongside Huw, and I’m going to give it my all to make sure this year is another great occasion.
“World Championships are always super competitive, and hopefully that will mean some great racing for the fans, and some good results to look forward to.”
Liam Richards (Freeski Halfpipe) said:
“I’m really proud to have been selected for World Championships and very much looking forward to getting into resort with the rest of the British team.
“I feel like I’ve made real strides with my skiing this year; competing in events like this is a great way to continue to test myself against the best in the world, and I’m excited to get out there, try to put down my best run, and see how far it can take me.”
Full Squad Selections:
Moguls
- Cali Carr*
- Makayla Gerken-Schofield
- Mateo Jeannesson
Freeski Park & Pipe
- Zoe Atkin (Halfpipe)
- Tom Greenway* (Slopestyle & Big Air)
- Chris McCormick (Slopestyle & Big Air)
- Kirsty Muir (Slopestyle & Big Air)
- James Pouch* (Slopestyle & Big Air)
- Liam Richards* (Halfpipe)
Snowboard Park & Pipe
- Mia Brookes (Slopestyle & Big Air)
- Maisie Hill* (Slopestyle & Big Air)
- Txema Mazet-Brown* (Slopestyle & Big Air)
- Katie Ormerod (Slopestyle & Big Air)
- Siddhartha Ullah* (Halfpipe)
Snowboard Cross
- Charlotte Bankes
- Huw Nightingale
Ski Cross
- Ollie Davies
- Scott Johns*
* Set for World Championships debut
Britain secured a 29th podium of the season through Mia Brookes, while there were encouraging performances in Beidahu and Stoneham
Brookes takes Bronze in Calgary
Mia Brookes took British headlines in Calgary, landing a seventh World Cup podium of the season with Bronze in Calgary to leave her top of the overall Snowboard Park & Pipe standings. With the Big Air Crystal Globe already in her grasp and a Slopestyle World Championships title to defend next month, Brookes’ season remains live with intrigue as it draws towards a close with just one World Cup meeting remaining prior to World Championships.
Maisie Hill joined Brookes in Finals in Calgary, coming in with a credible 12th place finish, while the qualifying round wasn’t the day for Txema Mazet-Brown, who nevertheless showed some excellent signs throughout training in a season which has seen him deliver enormous amounts of breakthrough promise.
In the Halfpipe, Siddhartha Ullah bagged a career best World Cup result with a 19th place finish in a deep field, while Aaron Wild came in in 32nd place.
Muir’s comeback continues in Stoneham
Kirsty Muir continued her comeback from the major knee injury sustained in December 2023, qualifying for her second Finals of the season in the Stoneham Slopestyle World Cup. A final position of sixth demonstrated the young Scot’s ability to swiftly get back to parity with the world’s best Freeski talent, and marks another important step in Muir’s return to high class competition ahead of next month’s World Championships.
In the Men’s competitions, Tom Greenway and Chris McCormick endured frustrating days to leave them in 38th and 54th position respectively after qualifiers.
Jeannesson impresses in Beidahu
Mateo Jeannesson landed a brace of strong performances in the Beidahu Moguls World Cup, finishing tenth in Dual Moguls and 12th in Individual Moguls, the former giving the 20-year-old a fourth career top-10 World Cup showing, and his second this season following an eighth place finish in Val St Come at the start of the month.
With two World Cup meets and a World Championships showing still to come this season, the team next moves on to Almaty where Jeannesson will be joined in the line-up by Cali Carr.
History rewritten as GB Snowsport athletes deliver series of stunning performances
Britain’s ski and snowboard athletes delivered one of the greatest weekends of action in living memory with a series of stunning performances across multiple disciplines.
Slalom teams rewrite history books in Saalbach
An already promising Alpine World Championships featuring strong performances in Speed led by Roy-Alexander Steudle went into overdrive in the closing Tech races. After a strong platoon performance in the Men’s and Women’s Giant Slalom races headlined by Molly Butler‘s 34th place finish, the Women’s and Men’s Slalom teams rewrote history across two stunning days in Saalbach.
First in the Women’s Slalom, Reece Bell delivered on her exceptional promise with a 20th place finish which marked Britain’s best result in the competition since Emma Carrick-Anderson’s 11th place in 1997 with Victoria Palla finishing in 23rd to give the nation its first double top-30 performance since 1993.
The following day’s Men’s Slalom saw history further rewritten as Dave Ryding secured the best result in a Men’s Alpine World Championships since 1934 taking sixth on the back of a barnstorming second run performance. Ryding was joined in the top-20 by Billy Major, whose 15th place finish included the fourth fastest second run in the entire field.
Atkin second in Calgary, shares Halfpipe Crystal Globe
Zoe Atkin‘s Halfpipe World Cup campaign delivered yet another podium with a second place finish in the Calgary Halfpipe World Cup and a share in the 2024/25 Crystal Globe alongside China’s Li Fanghui.
Atkin’s season record now stands at three podiums from five World Cup competitions, Silver medal winning performances in Copper and Calgary bookending a first World Cup victory in more than five years in Aspen at the start of February.
Atkin’s performances landed a second British Crystal Globe of the season following Mia Brookes’ Snowboard Big Air title.
There was more to celebrate in Calgary as Liam Richards made a World Cup Finals for the first time in his career, skiing brilliantly to secure a 13th place finish and continue his extraordinary trajectory in a stacked Men’s Halfpipe field.
Bankes’ brilliance continues in Cortina
Charlotte Bankes notched a third consecutive Snowboard Cross World Cup victory with a brilliantly orchestrated race in Cortina.
With a strategy built on express pace in the latter half of the circuit, Bankes battled back from trailing positions in the Quarter, Semi, and Big Final races to charge through for a third World Cup win of the season and a renewed demonstration of her racing prowess and ability to carve out results from within the most competitive fields.
Bankes now leads the Women’s SBX standings by 65 points from Lea Casta of France in second, and sits 100 points ahead of Australian Josie Baff in third.
Taylor’s Telemark season delivers yet another podium in Al
Jaz Taylor added to her proud Telemark World Cup podium record with a superb third place finish at the Al Classic World Cup, backing up a brace of fourth place finishes in the Sprint and Parallel Sprint races.
The latest performance marks a seventh World Cup podium of the season for Britain’s greatest ever Telemark skier, with World Cup Finals and a World Championships to follow.
Young talent excels at EYOF
The 2025 European Youth Olympic Festival concluded with five British snowsport medals highlighting the rich potential of the next generation of British ski and snowboard talent.
Following Freddy Carrick-Smith‘s GS gold in the opening days of competition, Zak Carrick-Smith made it two with Slalom bronze, before Sandra Caune seized a brace of medals with bronze in Freeski Slopestyle and gold in Freeski Big Air, the latter of which was matched by Emily Rothney in the Freestyle Snowboard competition.
The results mark an outstanding return for a talented team that travelled to Bakuriani, with the promise of more to come in the future.
Davies impresses in Falun Cross-Country World Cup
Joe Davies‘ excellent season continued with the two best British results at the Falun Cross-Country World Cup, headlined by an 18th place finish in the 20km F Mst event. Andrew Young made it two Brits in the top-30, coming in in 29th place.