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.
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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
- 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.
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
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.
Freestyle Snowboard star delivers on final jump to seal Big Air gold
Emily Rothney made it five British snowsport medals at EYOF 2025 with a superb performance in the Freestyle Snowboard Big Air contest.
Sitting second after the first jump, Rothney’s second effort left her trailing in the standings, before an outstanding third attempt pushed her to the top of the standings with an overall score of 156.75.
The 16-year-old snowboard sensation now holds podiums at EYOF, World Junior Championships, Europa Cup, and Junior levels, and has helped push Britain to fourth place in the EYOF 2025 medal table behind only the traditional snowsport powerhouses of France, Italy, and Switzerland.
Podiums and accolades continue to amass for British skiers and snowboarders
Freddy Carrick-Smith opens Bakuriani Games with a bang
Freddy Carrick-Smith delivered a performance for the ages in the opening Alpine races of the Bakuriani European Youth Olympic Festival, taking Gold for Team GB.
Sitting second at the turn, Freddy delivered the fastest second run of the competition to take Gold in a strong field which included three other Brits, including twin brother Zak Carrick-Smith who finished in fifth.
Taylor takes sixth Telemark World Cup podium of season
Jaz Taylor‘s remarkable season continued in typically impressive form with third and fourth place at the weekend’s Sprint World Cup races in Trillevallen. After just missing out on the podium on the first day’s racing, Taylor roared back into the top-3 with a third place finish at the second of the weekend’s races, a result which marked her sixth World Cup podium of the season.
Mia Brookes’ Big Air Crystal Globe lends sparkling finish to Aspen world Cup
Mia Brookes’ incredible consistency on the Big Air World Cup stage was rewarded with a defence of the Crystal Globe she secured last year. Having elected to sit out the final Big Air World Cup of the season on the back of an intense recent schedule, Brookes nevertheless secured the Globe on the back of her World Cup wins in Klagenfurt and Beijing.
Elsewhere in Aspen, Maisie Hill came 17th in the Women’s Snowboard Big Air, Txema Mazet Brown was 50th in the Men’s competition, Kirsty Muir continued her injury comeback with 12th place in the Freeski Big Air, with Caoimhe Heavey in 16th, while Chris McCormick, James Pouch, and Tom Greenway were 24th, 28th, and 31st respectively in the Men’s competition.
Steudle impresses at Alpine World Championships before injury curtails campaign
Roy Steudle was the pick of the British athletes in the first week of the Alpine World Championships in Saalbach, taking 29th place in the Men’s Super-G and giving Britain it’s best result in the event since 2009 in the process. He was joined in the top-40 by Owen VInter who skied impressively to come in in 37th spot.
Unfortunately, Steudle’s World Championships campaign subsequently came to a premature end after sustaining an injury in Downhill Training which ruled him out of the main race and also the Team Combined.
Elsewhere in the first week, the British team of Giselle Gorringe, Lois Jackson, Calum Langmuir, and Owen Vinter finished 14th in Team Parallel after a tough draw against an experienced French team, while Gorringe notched a DNF in Super-G after losing a ski early in the race.
Young Guns impress in Schilpario Cross-Country Championships
The future of Britain’s Cross-Country team looks in good hands after an excellent week of performances from the Junior and U23 squads athe World Junior and U23 Cross-Country Championships in Schilpario.
There were impressive results across the week, but highlights came with a tenth placed finish in the Mixed Relay, coming through from a starting position of 16th, and finishing just behind Canada and the USA.
Elsewhere, Tabitha Williams and Gabe Gledhill delivered strong performances in the U23 10k Interval Start, finishing 19th and 20th respectively.
Nightingale grabs maiden Europa Cup victory
Huw Nightingale took a first career Snowboard Cross Europa Cup victory in Reiteralm. In a strong field comprising youthful and experienced SBX competitors, Nightingale raced brilliantly to come through in a tightly contested Big Final to top the podium in a result which marked a first individual podium since coming second and third in Junior races in Isola 2000 in 2021.
Meenagh delivers solid World Championship showing in Pokljuka
Scott Meenagh’s Para Biathlon World Championships campaign finishing 9th, 7th, and 8th across the competition’s three races.
Scott’s final race, the Individual Biathlon, probably came closest to a podium, where one missed shot out of 20 taken proved to be the difference between his top-10 finish and a podium position.
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Scott Johns equalled his best ever World Cup result, with the 21-year-old finishing in 30th spot in Val di Fassa…
Cali Carr was the pick of the Moguls team in Deer Valley, the 17-year-old finishing 20th in the individual contest for her best Individual Moguls World Cup result…