KIRSRY MUIR QUALIFIES FOR HER FOURTH OLYMPIC FINALS
Kirsty Muir returned to action for the second time at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games, taking to the Big Air jump which saw her qualify for finals in fourth place.
The 21-year-old put down a left double 1440 safety on her opening run, backing it up with a right double 1080 safety on run two, to earn her a combined score of 167.50 and a spot in Monday’s finals.
This marks Muir’s fourth Olympic finals of her career, following her fourth place finish in Slopestyle earlier this week and building on her Olympic debut at the Beijing Games in 2022.
The women’s Freeski Big Air finals will take place on Monday 16 February at 18:30 GMT.
A HISTORIC DUAL MOGULS DEBUT FOR GERKEN SCHOFIELD
Makayla Gerken Schofield took to the slopes again in Livigno for the first-ever Dual Moguls event at the Winter Olympic Games.
The 26-year-old lined up in Heat 11 of the 1/16 finals, where she faced Austria’s Avital Carroll in Heat 11 of the 1/16 final, in the head-to-head knockout format.
A fiercely competitive run saw Gerken Schofield cross the line just 0.75 seconds behind her opponent, earning her 12 points and placing her 22nd overall – matching her individual Moguls performance earlier in the week.
While she did not progress beyond the opening round, it was a milestone moment for both athlete and discipline, and a Dual Moguls debut to be proud of for the two-time Olympian.
PRyce and clugnet take on the cross country sprint classic
Anna Pryce delivered a historic performance at her first Winter Olympics, recording the best-ever British Women’s result in Olympic Cross Country skiing with a 32nd place in the Women’s Sprint Classic.
James Clugnet recorded a solid 45th place in the Men’s Cross Country Sprint Classic in his first race of the Games as he continues to build towards the next events of the Cross Country programme.
Moguls Qualification Update
In the first Moguls qualification run, Mateo Jeannesson made his Olympic debut putting down a 28th place finish, while Makayla Gerken Schofield secured 18th place.
Both athletes will return for the second qualification run as they look to secure their places in the final. The Women’s second qualifying run takes place on Wednesday 11th February while the Men’s second qualifying run will be held on Thursday 12th February.
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.
Park & Pipe athletes bank first podiums of the new year
Muir secures Slopestyle gold
Kirsty Muir dominated the women’s field in Aspen in her first Slopestyle World Cup of the season, taking the second World Cup Slopestyle victory of her career in the process. Having topped the leaderboard in qualifications, Muir backed it up in the finals with another composed and challenging run to seal gold ahead of the Canadian pair of Megan Oldham and Elena Gaskell.
Chris McCormick and James Pouch also competed in their first Slopestyle World Cup of the season, both finishing inside the top 50 in a highly challenging field.
In the snowboard competition, Txema Mazet-Brown finished 46th and will be looking to improve on that result when he takes to the slopes in the Swiss resort of Laax this week.
Elsewhere, Mia Langridge continued her impressive season by taking her first Europa Cup win at the ‘Rock A Rail’ Europa Cup in Budapest. The win adds to three silver medals already collected this season, and underlines her growing reputation on the rail-jam scene.
Atkin takes silver while Kenworthy delivers in Finals
Zoe Atkin stood on the Freeski Halfpipe podium for the third time this season, securing silver at the Aspen World Cup in a Finals of exceptional quality. Atkin led the field in qualification and produced another strong showing in finals, showcasing her signature left-5 mute, and finishing the run with a switch cork-5 safety, to step onto the podium once again, with China’s Fanghui Li just pipping her to the gold medal by 0.25 points.
Gus Kenworthy also impressed, making his third final of the season after qualifying sixth in heat one. He opened finals with a huge right double-12 mute, into a left double-14, finishing the event in eighth place
Earlier in the men’s competition, Sam Gaskin finished 40th, while on the snowboard side, Siddhartha Ullah landed 28th and Aaron Wild 34th.
Double header for Alpine athletes in Madonna and Adelboden
A packed week for the men’s Alpine Slalom squad, started in Mandonna di Campiglio, Italy, before moving onto Adelboden, Switzerland.
In Madonna, Laurie Taylor qualified in 11th ahead of the second run, before a second run DNF. Billy Major and Dave Ryding sat just outside of the top 30 in 33rd and 34th, while Luca Carrick-Smith recorded a DNF on run one.
An improvement in Adelboden, saw Major, Ryding, and Taylor all make the top 30. Ryding led the charge with a hard-fought 13th place, while Major and Taylor put on a strong show to claim 19th and 22nd respectively.
Luca Carrick-Smith and Freddy Carrick-Smith both recorded DNF’s on their first run in the Slalom and Giant Slalom, but the pair gained valuable experience competing on the World Cup circuit.
Battle at the Para Biathlon in Notschrei
Scott Meenagh produced a strong showing at the IBU Para-Biathlon World Cup in Notschrei. Despite a rifle malfunction in the 12.5km Individual, Scott battled back to secure sixth place in the Sprint Pursuit. He rounded off the week with another consistent performance in the 7.5km Sprint, finishing seventh to cap a positive competition for the British athlete.
Weather interferes with Moguls
Challenging weather conditions forced a delayed start to the final women’s Moguls World Cup. That didn’t stop Makayla Gerken-Schofield from showing up and pushing through in a highly competitive field to finish 32nd.
Olympic hopefuls selected to World Cup squad
Makayla Gerken Schofield and Mateo Jeannesson will make up a two-person British Moguls World Cup squad for the coming season, following selection meetings earlier this month.
The pair, who have between them delivered some of the best British Moguls performances in history over recent seasons, are set to compete on the World Cup circuit for their eighth (Gerken Schofield) and sixth (Jeannesson) seasons respectively before attention turns to the Milan-Cortina Olympic Winter Games in 2026, with both athletes currently on track to qualify for the Games.
The squad marks a slimmed down selection for British Moguls athletes compared to recent seasons following the retirement of Beijing 2022 Olympian Will Feneley at the end of the 2024/25 season, and 18-year-old Cali Carr’s decision to step away from competition for the coming season after two years on the World Cup circuit.
GB Snowsport Performance Director, Kearnan Myall, said:
“Makayla and Mateo are both extremely exciting athletes who have shown over recent years their ability to hold their own against the world’s top Moguls skiers, and we look forward to seeing both continue their World Cup squad journey in the coming season.
“We’d like to extent a heartfelt thank you to Will Feneley, who is stepping away from World Cup competition after several years representing Great Britain at the highest level in Moguls. Will has competed with passion and professionalism across multiple seasons, and his commitment and dedication to Moguls skiing should be warmly recognised.
“We also wish Cali Carr the very best as she works to pursue her academic endeavours.“
Makayla and Mateo are set to get their 2025/26 World Cup campaigns underway in Ruka, Finland, on 3-8 December 2025.
Beijing 2022 Olympian, Will Feneley, has announced his retirement from competition
Will, who took a top-30 finish in the Beijing Olympic Winter Games individual Moguls as a 22-year-old, has been a central figure in British Moguls skiing since making his World Cup debut in 2019.
Across his World Cup career, Will twice recorded top-10 Dual Moguls results, firstly in Alpe d’Huez in 2022 and subsequently in Deer Valley in 2023, while also recording Europa Cup podiums on four occasions between 2019 and 2022.
Hailing from Norfolk and growing up in the British dry slope scene, Will carved a singular path through the Moguls circuit demonstrating excellent style and competitive instincts before sustaining a significant injury in 2023, shortly after his eighth place finish in the Deer Valley Dual Moguls World Cup in February 2023.
Will made a brief comeback to World Cup competition making three starts in January 2025, before confirming his decision to step away from competition following the end of the 2024/25 season.
Will has made a significant impact on British Moguls skiing across his career, and everyone involved with GB Snowsport wishes him all the best in the next chapter of his career.
Will Feneley Career Highlights
- March 2015: Makes Europa Cup debut in Jyvaskyla finishing in 28th spot
- February 2017: First Europa Cup top-10 with back-to-back eighth place finishes in Gaissau
- January 2019: World Cup debut in Mont Tremblant, finishing 48th
- March 2019: Comes second in back-to-back Airolo Europa Cup competitions, for first EC level career podiums
- March 2021: Achieves highest career World Championships result with 24th in Almaty World Championships
- February 2022: Becomes an Olympian, representing Team GB in Individual Moguls in Beijing, coming in 27th place
- February 2022: Records two more Europa Cup podiums with third and second place finishes in Krispl
- December 2022: Finishes in top-10 of World Cup competition for the first time, coming eighth in Alpe d’Huez Dual Moguls
- February 2023: Records second World Cup top-10, with eighth place in Dual Moguls in Deer Valley
- January 2025: Final World Cup appearance in Val St. Come
- June 2025: Confirms retirement from competitive Moguls skiing
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.