GB Snowsport

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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


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.

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.

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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.

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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.