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A huge day for British Freestyle athletes yielded World Cup victory for Mia Brookes and an immediate podium on Gus Kenworthy’s return to competition

Brookes takes Big Air victory in Beijing

Mia Brookes recorded a fourth career World Cup victory as she finished top of the pile in this morning’s Beijing Freestyle Snowboard Big Air World Cup

Making her first appearance of the season, Mia breezed through qualification in first place before delivering the standout moment of the event in her second Finals jump, landing a perfect execution of her signature Cab14 to soar to the top of the standings ahead of the third run.

Mia’s score of 176.50 saw her finish ahead of Canada’s Hanna Karrer in second with 146.75, and Japanese rider Momo Suzuki whose 145.25 was good enough for third.

Kenworthy soars to podium on return to competition

Gus Kenworthy’s first competitive appearance since the Beijing Olympic Winter Games in 2022 yielded a remarkable return to the podium as he finished third in the China leg of the Halfpipe Snow League.

Kenworthy, whose last competitive podium came in 2020, looked in stunning form to progress to the Semi Final stage, before taking an automatic third place finish as his opponent in the third-place matchup, Nick Goepper, withdrew following a crash in his own Semi Final.

The 2025/26 winter season continued to build momentum this week as British athletes delivered impressive performances across Alpine, Park and Pipe and Cross Country with much more to come as the winter unfolds.

breaking records on the world cup start list

Following last weekend’s historic showing in Levi for the Alpine Slalom World Cup, the British men’s team returned for their second race of the World Cup circuit in Gurgl for another highly competitive slalom event.

Billy Major delivered the standout British result of the day, skiing with pace and confidence to secure 17th place. His slick second run showcased the form he has carried into the early season and marks another strong World Cup finish to build on as the season progresses.

Dave Ryding, competing in his final race in Gurgl took to the start gate in a resort that has supported him for 8 years, delivered a 25th place finish that keeps him firmly within the World Cup points as the season unfolds.

Laurie Taylor fresh off a career-best 4th place in Levi, battled through tight margins and difficult conditions to finish 33rd.

Gurgl was, again, a history defining race for our athletes as, for the first time ever, Britain left with three athletes ranked in the top 30 of the World Cup start list.

It was also an Alpine race weekend for the Carrick-Smith brothers on the Europa Cup circuit, as Zak, Freddy and Luca took on the men’s slalom in Storklinten, Sweden. Despite strong intent from the trio, it was a challenging day on a demanding set, with Zak and Freddy enduring difficult first runs to leave them outside the qualification spots, while Luca recorded a DNF as he skied out mid-course.

Weather plays havoc with Stubai schedule

Poor weather and challenging conditions saw disruption and cancellations at the Stubai Freeski Slopestyle World Cup, with the men’s competition nixed in the face of dangerous winds throughout the weekend, and the women’s competition reduced to qualification round only. Caoimhe Heavey and Ash Clayton each looked at home in a highly competitive international field, with Heavey finishing 22nd and Clayton 30th, both continuing their progress on the World Cup stage.

On the Rail Jam scene, it was a standout weekend for snowboarder Mia Langridge, who claimed second place at Snowfest in Innsbruck, showcasing her technical and creative rail skills. The win further cements Mia’s status as an exciting young British freestyle talent, while in the ski competition, Ella Hall’s third place finish marked another impressive moment in the young Brit’s international career.

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Cross-Country team tunes up ahead of World Cup season

Over in Norway, rising cross-country athlete Tabitha Williams produced an excellent early-season performance, finishing 25th in a strong field in Beitosølen for the women’s 10km Interval Start Free. Against multiple World Cup and Olympic-level athletes, Tabby’s result highlights her continued upward trajectory and marks another positive step in her international development. In the men’s 1.3km Sprint Classic, James Clugnet finished in 33rd spot, while the weekend’s best result fell to veteran figurehead Andrew Musgrave, who came in in 17th place.

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

Freestyle Snowboard – World Cup squad

Freestyle Snowboard – Next Generation squad

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.

18-year-old adds Overall title to Big Air globe in sensational 2024/25 season

Mia Brookes has taken the Overall Snowboard Park & Pipe title after the cancellation of the Finals of the Absolut Park Slopestyle World Cup this morning.

In a sensational season, Brookes has delivered seven World Cup podiums including victories in Beijing, Klagenfurt, and Laax, with three top-3 finishes in the Big Air discipline and four in Slopestyle, confirming her strength across both World Cup disciplines.

Brookes’ title was secured with 500 World Cup points, a margin of 35 clear of Japan’s Mari Fukada in second, while New Zealander Zoi Sadowski-Synott claimed third with 436 points.

More to follow…

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

Freeski Park & Pipe

Snowboard Park & Pipe

Snowboard Cross

Ski Cross

* 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.

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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.

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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.

18-year-old leads overall standings with one World Cup to go

Mia Brookes earned a seventh World Cup podium of the season with Bronze at the Calgary Slopestyle World Cup this weekend, a result which leaves her top of the overall SB Park & Pipe standings with a single World Cup competition to come.

In a season marked by the 18-year-old phenom’s incredible consistency, Brookes’ latest podium means she has finished in the top-3 of all four Slopestyle World Cup contests this season, beginning in Cardrona, New Zealand in September and culminating next month in Austria’s Absolut Park.

In Calgary, Brookes’ score of 74.08 was enough to claim third ahead of Australia’s Tess Coady, and saw her under 2.5 points behind Annika Morgan in second and just 3.5 points short of Mari Fukada of Japan in first place.

Brookes now sits 50 points clear of Fukada in the 2025 overall standings and 118 points ahead of Fukada’s counterpart Kokomo Murase in the Slopestyle standings.

The final World Cup of the season is scheduled for 13-14 March with the Freestyle World Championships to follow later the same month.t