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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.

Para Nordic trailblazer secures first World Cup podium of season

Scott Meenagh delivered a superb bronze medal winning performance at the Para Biathlon Sprint World Cup in Torsby, Sweden, to take his first World Cup podium of the 2024/25 season.

After a number of near misses this season, Meenagh put together a near flawless performance to take third place at the final of the Torsby World Cup races, finishing with a time of 10:24.8s behind Aaron Pike of the USA in first place and Kazakhstan’s Yerbol Khamitov in second. Scott’s podium finish in the final World Cup races of the season puts him in third place in the overall World Cup standings, a career-best placing for the 35-year-old.

The result means British athletes have now secured World Cup podiums in all three Para Snowsport disciplines, with Neil Simpson and Rob Poth having done so in Para Alpine, and Ollie Hill and James Barnes-Miller both taking Para Snowboard medals this season.

Speaking afterwards, Scott said:

“I am incredibly proud of today’s result. I put myself under a lot of pressure going into the final day, as I knew there was not only medals, but a best-ever placing in the overall World Cup standings at stake.

“I’m so proud I was able to deliver a medal on the final day. The team have worked so hard all season to help me turn out some very consistent results. I felt I owed it to them to take one step further, and reach the podium.“

Britain’s superb 2025 continued with World Cup, World championships, and Junior world Championships successes

Bankes’ brilliance returns fifth World Cup gold of season

Charlotte Bankes demonstrated the skill and resilience that makes her one of Britain’s greatest contemporary athletes with a fifth World Cup victory of the season in the second of the weekend’s two World Cup races in Gudauri, Georgia.

A shock qualification stage elimination in the first of the weekend’s races was put swiftly in the rear-view mirror as Bankes showed her trademark dominance to come through the second of the weekend’s double header contests in first place, giving her a commanding lead in the overall standings in the process.

In the Men’s competitions, Huw Nightingale delivered one of his best performances of the season to finish in the top-30 for the third time this season, taking 28th place following a 1/8th final stage exit.

Cross-Country team secure three top-10 World Championships finishes

The Trondheim Cross-Country World Championships drew to a close at the weekend with Britain delivering a raft of memorable results, including three top-10 finishes across the Championships.

Andrew Musgrave secured the best result of the competition, with sixth place in the 50k Free providing a best British individual World Championships result since 2017. Elsewhere, a monumental effort in the Relay saw Musgrave, James Clugnet, Gabriel Gledhill, and Andrew Young take ninth place, while Joe Davies was in excellent form in the Skiathlon on his way to a 24th place finish.

Read our dedicated Cross-Country World Championships round-up here.

Alpine next generation make history in Tarvisio

The next generation of British Alpine skiers showed superb form in the Tarvisio World Junior Championships, as the team demonstrated why there’s so much excitement building around the future of British Alpine skiing.

Leading the charge was Luca Carrick-Smith, whose bronze medal winning performance in the Men’s Slalom gave Britain its first Alpine World Junior Championships podium since Graham Bell took Downhill silver in 1984.

In the U18s category, Freddy Carrick-Smith secured U18 titles in Slalom and GS, the latter coming in a race which saw three Brits in the top-12 including Jack Irving whose fifth place finish had been the best British Alpine World Junior Championships result since Chemmy Alcott’s fourth place in 2002, prior to Luca’s podium on the final day’s racing.

Taylor dominates in Krvarvec

Jaz Taylor‘s incredible run of form continued in the Slovenian resort of Krvarvec, as she returned a silver and two gold medals from two Sprint events and one Classic race, extending her lead in the overall Telemark World Cup standings in the process.

Indeed, so remarkable is Taylor’s form that she currently stands atop the Overall, Sprint, and Classic leaderboards with a remarkable ten World Cup podiums with fourteen of the season’s twenty World Cup competitions completed.

Meenagh fourth in Para Biathlon World Cup

Scott Meenagh finished just outside of the podium places at the Torsby Para Biathlon World Cup, coming fourth in the 12.5km Individual races over the weekend.

The result adds to an encouraging body of work for Meenagh in Para Biathlon this season, which has seen him edging ever closer to the podium with strong skiing and excellent shooting execution.

Carpenter into top 10 in Alpine Snowboard World junior Championships

Sam Carpenter showed his rich promise in at the Alpine Snowboard World Junior Championships with a seventh place finish in the Parallel Slalom in Zakopane/Suche.

The result comes in 18-year-old Carpenter’s fourth appearance at a World Junior Championships, and marks his best result at that level, coming hot on the heels of a breakthrough FIS level victory in Val Saint Come last month.

6 March 2024 marks the start of the one year countdown to the Milan-Cortina Paralympic Winter Games

One year from now, British Paralympic athletes will be readying themselves for the opening of the Milan-Cortina Paralympic Winter Games, the first Winter Paralympics on European soil since Sochi 2014.

Standing behind them will be a proud track record of British snowsport success in the world’s biggest Paralympic competition, including six medals from the last Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing in 2022.

Of Britain’s Beijing medallists, Neil Simpson (Gold, Men’s Super-G VI; Bronze, Men’s Super Combined VI), Menna Fitzpatrick (Silver, Women’s Super-G VI; Bronze, Women’s Super Combined VI) and Ollie Hill (Bronze, Men’s Snowboard Banked Slalom LL2) will all be aiming to make a return to the Paralympic stage having built an impressive body of results in the years since in the World Cup and World Championships arenas, while Millie Knight (Bronze, Women’s Downhill VI) announced her retirement shortly after the Beijing Games.

Over the coming year, we are committed to continuing our work with our Para Alpine, Para Nordic, and Para Snowboard athletes and ensuring we prepare the strongest possible team ready for competition in Milan-Cortina in 2026.

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.

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.

And the rest…

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…

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…

Neil Simpson and Scott Meenagh set for Para Alpine and Para Biathlon World Championships

GB Snowsport will be represented at the Para Alpine and Para Biathlon World Championships by Neil Simpson and Scott Meenagh.

In the Para Alpine Championships, Simpson will be accompanied by Rob Poth and Andrew Simpson as guides as he looks to defend the Slalom and Giant Slalom medals and Super-G title he secured at the 2023 Championships, while also lining up for the Combined and Downhill events. The Championships, which will be hosted in Maribor, Slovenia, run from 4-11 February.

Meenagh’s Para Biathlon World Championships campaign will take him to the Slovenian resort of Pokljuka, where he will be looking to build on the best ever British result recorded at the last World Championships, where he left with silver from the 12.5km individual biathlon. Races get underway with the opening events taking place on 6 February.

Everyone at GB Snowsport wishes the best of luck to Neil, Rob, Andrew, and Scott.