GB Snowsport

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.

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 added three more World Cup podiums on another impressive week of action

Bankes and Nightingale take Turkish podiums

An impressive weekend of Snowboard Cross performances yielded podiums in the Women’s and Team events, with Charlotte Bankes continuing her run of dominant form.

In the individual competitions, Bankes was once again flawless as she executed a well-developed race strategy to secure Gold in the women’s competition, taking a fourth consecutive World Cup win in the process. Having finished fourth in the season’s opening competition, Bankes hasn’t missed a beat since and currently sits atop the overall standings with the World Cup season now more than halfway to completion.

The following day’s Team event saw Bankes and Huw Nightingale combine for a superb Silver medal winning performance behind a highly-rated Australian team. The result continues a rich vein of form for Bankes and Nightingale in the team event, with sights firmly set on the next Team race in Montafon before the pair set out to defend their Team World Championships title in St Moritz.

Barnes-Miller secures first World Cup podium of season in Steamboat

James Barnes-Miller grabbed his first Para Snowboard World Cup podium of the 2024-25 season with a third-place finish in the Snowboard Cross event in Steamboat, Colorado.

Having finished fifth in the week’s opening races, Barnes-Miller broke through into the Big Final in the second of the double-header competition, before coming through in third place to notch his first podium appearance this season.

In the women’s races, Nina Sparks took a heavy fall in the opening competition on her way to consecutive eighth-place finishes, with the team now set to be reunited with fellow World Cup squad members Ollie Hill and Matt Hamilton for the Para Snowboard World Championships in Big White, Canada, which kick off this week.

Musgrave and Clugnet impress in Trondheim

Andrew Musgrave and James Clugnet were the pick of the performances in the opening races of the 2025 Cross-Country World Championships with a seventh-place finish in the 20km Skiathlon and 19th place in the Sprint Free respectively.

In a nail-biting Skiathlon race, Musgrave was right up in the leading pack from the midway point, leading with 2.5km to go before a brutally fast finish saw him nudged back into seventh place for a result which confirms his continued status as one of the world’s top Cross-Country skiers.

In the opening races of the Championships, James Clugnet demonstrated his enduring Sprint capabilities with a top 20 placing in the Sprint Free event, registering one of the best British Sprint results of the season to date in the process.

Elsewhere, Joe Davies looked in excellent form in his sole World Championships appearance finishing 24th in the Skiathlon, with Gabriel Gledhill taking 55th spot.

Jeannesson at the double in Almaty

Mateo Jeannesson delivered another pair of solid performances at the Almaty Mogul World Cups, landing 15th in Dual Moguls and 24th in Individual Moguls. In a season where Jeannesson has delivered consistent top-30 finishes, the 20-year-old’s Almaty performances continued to show why he is rated as one of the sport’s brightest young talents, and a real prospect in the coming seasons.

Two top 30s for Brits in Kranjska Gora

Billy Major and Dave Ryding secured top 30 berths in the Kranjska Gora Slalom, with Laurie Taylor narrowly missing out on the second run with a 33rd place finish.

On a famously challenging surface, Major was the pick of the Brits coming 22nd after a solid second run performance, with Ryding marginally back from him in 24th spot.

Davies and Johns both in top 30 in Gudauri

Ollie Davies and Scott Johns both featured in the top 30 in the Gudauri Ski Cross World Cup races, finishing 29th and 30th respectively in the second of the weekend double header.

Having struggled in qualification for the first World Cup, the British pair looked in immediately better form in the second coming through comfortably in qualification, before delivering solid races to finish inside the top 30 positions in the Georgian resort.

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.

All eyes on World Championships, while Freestyle World Cup action continues

Alpine World Championships – Saalbach

The Austrian resort of Saalbach plays host to an Alpine World Championships for the first time since 1991, with Britain sending its largest ever contingent of athletes to an Alpine WSC.

Action gets underway today with the Team Parallel featuring Gieslle Gorringe, Lois Jackson, Calum Langmuir, and Owen Vinter, with the schedule then shifting to Super-G, Downhill, Team Combined, and Giant Slalom before closing with the Slalom races on 14-16 February.

Alongside the Team Parallel racers, Roy Steudle, Billy Major, Molly Butler, Abi Bruce, Jack Irving, Dominic Shackleton, Victoria Palla, Reece Bell, Dave Ryding, and Laurie Taylor are all set to compete across twelve days of action.

Viewers in the UK will be able to catch live action from the 2025 Alpine World Championships across BBC Sport.

Alpine world championships – British Line-Up:

Para Biathlon World Championships – Pokljuka

Scott Meenagh will be Britain’s sole representative at the Pokljuka Para Biathlon World Championships, competing in three races across the Championships.

A silver medallist at the 2023 World Championships, Meenagh’s campaign will open with the Biathlon Sprint, followed by the Biathlon Sprint Pursuit and finally the Biathlon Individual.

Biathlon World Championships – British Line-Up:

Para Alpine World Championships – Maribor

Weather impact has forced a late change to the Para Alpine World Championships schedule, where Neil Simpson and guides Rob Poth and Andrew Simpson are set for action.

With the Downhill programme cancelled, the Championships will open with Super-G races tomorrow, and will close with Slalom later in the week.

Para Alpine World Championships – British Line-Up:

Cross-Country World Junior championships – Schilpario

The next generation of Cross-Country skiers are underway in their U23/WJC campaigns in the Italian resort of Schilpario.

Tabitha Williams, Gabriel Gledhill, and James Slimon will feature across the U23 Championships, with Thomas Duncan, Ewan McAdam, Elke Hammerstein, Elspeth Cruickshank, and Sophie Forth set for the Junior Championship races.

Cross-Country World Junior Championships – British Line-Up:

Moguls World Cup – Deer Valley

The North American leg of the Moguls World Cup calendar continues in Deer Valley with a full contingent of British athletes set for action. Makayla Gerken Schofield and Mateo Jeannesson will be looking to build on excellent performances in Val St Come last weekend, joined by Cali Carr and Will Feneley.

Deer Valley Moguls World Cup – British Line-Up:

Park & Pipe World Cup – Aspen

The Aspen Park & Pipe World Cup concludes with the Freeski and Freestyle Snowboard Big Air competitions following a brace of podiums for Zoe Atkin and Mia Brookes in last week’s Halfpipe and Freestyle Snowboard Slopestyle contests.

Brookes will be joined by Maisie Hill, Tom Greenway, Caoimhe Heavey, Txema Mazet-Brown, Chris McCormick and Kirsty Muir for the final contests of one of the biggest World Cup meets of the season.

Aspen Big Air World Cup – British Line-Up:

Ski Cross World Cup – Val di Fassa

Ollie Davies and Scott Johns will return to Ski Cross World Cup action in Val di Fassa across 6-9 February, marking a first World Cup visit to the Italian resort.

Val di Fassa Ski Cross World Cup – British Line-Up:

Where to Watch

British audiences can catch live coverage of the Alpine World Championships across BBC Sport and Eurosport, with the Aspen and Deer Valley World Cups available via Eurosport.

World Cup podiums in China and the US lit up a sparkling weekend

Bankes’ brilliance lights up Beidahu

Charlotte Bankes’ customary brilliance was on full display in Beidahu as the second leg of the Snowboard Cross World Cup circuit yielded a brace of victories for the 29-year-old Brit.

After a fourth place finish in the season’s first World Cup meet, Bankes was on imperious form throughout the weekend’s racing, finishing first in her Quarter, Semi, and Big Final races on both days to give her a commanding lead in the overall season standings.

The results gave Bankes her 22nd and 23rd career World Cup victories, and further stated her case to be recognised as one of the pre-eminent British athletes of her generation.

In the men’s competitions, Huw Nightingale continues to show good progress, finishing inside the top-30 in 28th and 21st place across the two days’ racing, the latter representing his second best career World Cup finish to date.

Atkin and Brookes take Gold and Bronze in Aspen

Aspen proved a fruitful hunting ground for British Park & Pipe athletes once again, with Zoe Atkin securing a brilliant Gold in the Freeski Halfpipe World Cup, and Mia Brookes demonstrating her ability to consistently take podiums with Bronze in the Freestyle Snowboard Slopestyle.

For Brookes, her latest podium marked a third in Slopestyle for the current season in addition to the three Big Air podiums already to her name, with the Aspen Big Air World Cup to follow this week.

Atkin’s victory, meanwhile, gave her a second career World Cup win and a second podium of the season, having previously taken silver at Copper Mountain in December.

In the Women’s Freeski Slopestyle contest, Kirsty Muir marked a remarkable return from a serious knee injury by making Finals in her first competition back on snow for a year, the 20-year-old qualifying in sixth spot, before finishing eighth in Finals as she made an assured return to the competitive scene.

Elsewhere in Aspen there were top-30 finishes for Chris McCormick (Freeski Slopestyle – 27th), Txema Mazet-Brown (Freestyle Snowboard Slopestyle – 26th), Liam Richards (Freeski Halfpipe – 24th), and Siddhartha Ullah (Freestyle Snowboard Halfpipe – 30th).

Meenagh Fourth in Para Biathlon Sprint World Cup

Scott Meenagh took his best result of the season so far with an excellent fourth place in the Val di Fiemme Para Biathlon World Cup Sprint, a result made even more remarkable for coming in Meenagh’s least favoured discipline.

The competition, which comes just before the Para Biathlon World Championships, marks an important step in Meenagh’s preparations for an event which saw him take Britain’s first ever Para Biathlon World Championships medal with silver in the 2023 edition.

Jeannesson and Gerken Schofield impress in Val st come Moguls

Makayla Gerken Schofield‘s return from injury yieleded a first top-10 finish since March 2024 with tenth place in the Val St Come Moguls World Cup, followed by 12th in the Dual Moguls competition. Having not skied competitively for almost a year between March and January, Gerken Schofield’s return has delivered four successive top-20 finishes to reaffirm their position as one of Britain’s most talented Mogul skiers of this generation.

Mateo Jeannesson meanwhile secured a first top-10 of the season with eighth place in the Dual Moguls, having come 30th in the previous day’s individual Moguls competition.

And elsewhere…

Ollie Davies took the weekend’s best British Ski Cross World Cup result with a 28th place finish in Veysonnaz…

James Clugnet and Gabriel Gledhill came 23rd in the Cogne Team Sprint Cross Country World Cup…

Ski Cross and Snowboard Cross World Cup seasons resume, as athletes spread across Europe, North America, and Asia

Park & Pipe World Cup – Aspen

Aspen plays host to one of the biggest Park & Pipe World Cup meets of the season, with Freeski and Freestyle Snowboard athletes in action across Halfpipe, Slopestyle, and Big Air competitions.

A sizeable British contingent will be set to compete, with Kirsty Muir set to make her return from injury after more than 12 months out of action, Mia Brookes looking to cement a second consecutive Big Air Crystal Globe, and Caoimhe Heavey lined up for her first World Cup appearance of the season.

Zoe Atkin will be back in action in Freeski Halfpipe as will Liam Richards, while in Freestyle Snowboard Halfpipe, Gidget Holden, Siddhartha Ullah, and Aaron Wild are all set to compete.

The Freestyle Snowboard Big Air and Slopestyle contests will see Maisie Hill and Txema Mazet-Brown line up alongside Brookes, and in the Freeski contests, Chris McCormick is confirmed to compete, with Tom Greenway on the standby list.

Aspen World Cup – British Line-Up:

Alpine Slalom World Cup – Schladming

The legendary Schladming Night Slalom race will see Billy Major, Dave Ryding, and Laurie Taylor in action, after a successful Kitzbuehel race which saw Ryding and Taylor share 16th spot.

One of the most iconic races on the annual Slalom circuit, Britain’s best Schladming result remains Ryding’s eighth place finish in 2020, while last year’s race saw Ryding finish highest of the Brits in 14th position.

Schladming World Cup – British Line-Up:

Para Biathlon World Cup – Val di Fiemme:

Scott Meenagh‘s 2024/25 campaign continues with the first of the year’s Para Biathlon World Cups in Val di Fiemme. Coming just ahead of the Para Biathlon World Championships early next month, Meenagh is set to compete across two days of action in the well-regarded Italian resort.

Val di Fiemme World Cup – British Line-Up:

Snowboard Cross World Cup – Beidahu

The next step on the Snowboard Cross World Cup circuit takes Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale to Beidahu, in the Chinese province of Jilin, made famous as the site of the 2007 Winter Asian Games.

Following the cancellation of the Dolni Morava World Cup races, Beidahu marks just the second stop on the 2024/25 SBX World Cup calendar, with competitions coming thick and fast throughout February and March, following this weekend’s double-header.

Beidahu World Cup – British Line-Up:

Moguls World Cup – Val St. Come

Following successful returns from injury at least weekend’s Waterville World Cup from Makayla Gerken Schofield and Will Feneley, the full Moguls squad heads to Val St. Come with some encouraging results and positive progress under their belt.

Joining Makayla and Will in the line-up will be the two youngest members of the team, Cali Carr and Mateo Jeannesson.

Val St. Come World Cup – British Line-Up:

Ski Cross World Cup – Veysonnaz

The two-man World Cup line-up of Ollie Davies and Scott Johns are both set to compete in this weekend’s Veysonnaz World Cup, a race which marks the mid-point of the Ski Cross World Cup season.

Double header races will see qualification runs on 30 and 31 January, with Finals set for 1 and 2 February.

Veysonnaz World Cup – British Line-Up:

Where to Watch

British audiences can tune in to Eurosport to follow the Schladming Slalom, Val St Come Moguls, Veysonnaz Ski Cross, and Aspen Park & Pipe World Cup competitions throughout the week.

Mia Brookes and Jaz Taylor continued their podium crusades, while there were strong performances across Europe for British athletes

X Games ends with double podiums for Mia Brookes

The 2025 Winter X Games ended with two Mia Brookes medals in Slopestyle and the non-Olympic Knuckle Huck discipline, as well as an excellent fourth place in Big Air.

Coming into the Slopestyle competition as defending champion, Brookes looked set for a medal from the outset with her usual style and dynamism on full show, landing her a blistering 94.00 in her first playoff run to qualify for Finals in top spot. What followed was possibly the highest quality Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle contest in X Games history, as Brookes, Kokomo Murase, and Zoi Sadowski-Synnott each delivered sensational runs to blow the competition wide open. In the final reckoning, Brookes’ 88.33 was enough to comfortably secure bronze, with Murase taking silver with a second run 90.33, and Sadowski-Synnott landing a run for the ages for 94.66.

Later in the day, Brookes’ X Games Knuckle Huck debut yielded an excellent silver medal, coming in second behind Murase and ahead of Lily Dhawornvej of the US who took the bronze medal slot. In three visits to X Games, Brookes now boasts three medals and two fourth-place finishes, marking her out as one of the competition’s most reliably competitive athletes.

Elsewhere, Zoe Atkin fell just short of a third X Games medal of her won in the Freeski Superpipe, coming fourth in a highly competitive Final won by Cassie Sharpe. Atkin’s qualification score of 89.00 had been enough for a second place finish during Playoffs, and would have secured Gold in the Finals, but in a high grade Final, could only muster a 68.00 to leave her in fourth place.

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Ryding and Taylor share 16th in Kitzbuehel

The legendary Kitzbuehel Slalom, won so memorably by Dave Ryding in 2021, yielded dual 16th place finishes for Ryding and Laurie Taylor amid a rainy 2025 edition. In imperfect conditions, Ryding and Taylor each navigated two challenging runs to give Britain another brace of top-20 finishes in a season marked by impressive consistency from the British Men’s Alpine team.

The result continues Ryding’s streak of top-20 finishes on the iconic Austrian course, which now stretches to an increadible eight consecutive seasons since a second run DNF in 2016, while for Taylor it marks a best ever result Kitzbuehel result, bettering his 19th place finish last year.

Earlier, the team came close to a three-man second run contingent, with only a sector two error preventing Billy Major from breaking into the top-30, while in the earlier Super G races, Roy-Alexander Steudle‘s first World Cup of the season finished agonisingly close to the top-30 with only a late error forcing him into 36th spot, the result marking a storming return from injury for the experienced Speed skier, and Britain’s best Men’s World Cup SG result since Finley Mickel took 33rd in Gardena/Groeden in 2006.

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Taylor first and fifth in Melchsee-Frutt

Jaz Taylor maintained her grip on the Overall Telemark World Cup leaderboard with first and fifth place finishes at the back-to-back Melchsee-Frutt Parallel Sprint World Cup races.

A barnstorming display of head-to-head racing in the week’s first race saw Taylor comfortably hold off Argeline Tan Bouquet to secure her third World Cup victory and fifth podium of the 2025 season, before the weekend’s second race saw her off the podium for the first time in nine races, as Strom Goril Eriksen came through for victory, again ahead of Tan Bouquet of France.

Taylor’s overall standings lead now sits at 60 points with 485, with Tan Bouquet sitting second on 425, and Augustine Carliez in third on 355.

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Gerken Schofield makes Moguls return in impressive Waterville showing

Makayla Gerken Schofield‘s return from injury saw the Beijing 2022 Olympian deliver a pair of hugely impressive performances to take 14th in Dual Moguls and 16th in the single event, having not skied competitively since March following a knee injury sustained during the summer. The results mark the 37th and 38th top-20 World Cup finishes of Gerken Schofield’s career, and confirms their continued ability to mix it with the best in the sport, even after almost a year on the sidelines.

Elsewhere, Will Feneley also made his comeback from injury almost two years on from his last World Cup appearance, while Mateo Jeannesson‘s 23rd and 19th in Dual and Single Moguls showed impressive consistency from the Junior World Champion. Cali Carr, meanwhile, took 31st in the single event.

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Musgrave 14th in Engadin

Andrew Musgrave notched another top-20 World Cup finish at the Engadin 20km F Mass Start Cross Country race this weekend, finishing in 14th spot. His time of 53:39.3 put him less than 10s outside of the top-10 in a race dominated by the Norwegian and French teams, who secured nine of the top-10 spots. Teammate James Clugnet finished in 55th spot having taken 34th place in the Sprint Free races the previous day.

More weather impacts curtail Para Snowboard Lenk World Cup

The Lenk Para Snowboard Cross World Cup races saw a curtailed race programme after poor weather locally left the course out of action in the first day of competition, but recovered sufficiently to permit racing in the competition’s second day of action. Ollie Hill was the pick of the British competitors, taking eighth spot in the Men’s Lower Limb 2 category.

Some of the season’s most iconic contests land in a week of intense competition

X Games – Aspen

The Winter X Games rolls back into Aspen, with defending Slopestyle champion Mia Brookes and two-time X Games medallist Zoe Atkin set for action.

Brookes will drop into Snowboard Slopestyle and Big Air action having secured a stunning victory at least year’s Slopestyle competition, while Atkin is set for the Freeski Superpipe where she won Gold in 2023 and Silver in 2024.

X Games – British Line-Up:

Alpine World Cup – Kitzbuehel

Alpine action heads to one of the most iconic World Cup venues on the calendar, with the Kitzbuehel Slalom and Super-G World Cups this weekend.

Site of Dave Ryding‘s history-making Slalom World Cup victory in 2022 and second place finishes in 2017 and 2023, this weekend will also see Billy Major and Laurie Taylor in Slalom action, while Roy-Alexander Steudle will start his first World Cup of the 2024/25 season in the Super-G after an impressive recovery from injury which has a slew of promosing EC and FIS race performances over the past month.

Kitzbuehel wOrld Cup – British Line-Up:

Moguls World Cup – Waterville

The first Moguls World Cups of 2025 will see a full World Cup squad contingent compete across Moguls and Dual Moguls contests in Waterville, USA. Makayla Gerken Schofield and Will Feneley are set for their first World Cup competitions of the season after periods out with injury, while Mateo Jeannesson and Cali Carr are set to continue their campaigns after the Christmas and New Year hiatus.

waterville World Cup – British Line-Up:

Cross Country World Cup – Engadin

Engadin marks the next stop on the Cross Country World Cup circuit, with James Clugnet and Andrew Musgrave set for action, with the Swiss resort hosting World Cup competition for the first time since 2021.

Two days of racing for the British contingent will see Sprint Free and 20km Mass Start Free races set for the Saturday and Sunday.

Engadin World Cup – British Line-Up:

James Clugnet

Andrew Musgrave

Para Snowboard World Cup – Lenk

The Para Snowboard team move onto the next Snowboard Cross World Cup of the season in Lenk, with James Barnes-Miller, Ollie Hill, and Nina Sparks lining up for the second PSB World Cup meet of the year. The team will be looking to build on a solid set of performances in Pyha last weekend, with Matt Hamilton potentially set to join the team’s World Cup field pending confirmation of entry.

Lenk Snowboard Cross World Cup – British Line-Up:

Telemark World Cup – Melchsee-Frutt

Jaz Taylor will look to continue her podium streak at the Melchsee-Frutt Telemark Parallel Sprint World Cup races, with Hamish Ross and Jamie Dykes also both set to compete in the Men’s competition. With four podiums under her belt already this season, Taylor’s Crystal Globe defence has got off to a flying start which she will be looking to carry into Swiss territory at this week’s races.

Melchsee-Frutt Parallel Slalom World Cup – British Line-Up:

Where to watch

British viewers can catch X Games 2025 live on X Games’ YouTube channel, while Cross-Country, Alpine, and Moguls action will be avaialble across Eurosport throughout the weekend.