Five medals, three of them gold, see Zoe Atkin, Mia Brookes, and Kirsty Muir make history
Gold Rush in Aspen
British athletes stormed to an historic five-medal showing at X Games 2026, with Zoe Atkin, Mia Brookes, and Kirsty Muir all leaving an indelible mark on the most storied of freestyle sport competitions.
Gold medal winning performance Atkin in Freeski Halfpipe, Brookes in Snowboard Slopestyle, and Muir in Freeski Slopestyle were backed up by Big Air silver and bronze medals for Muir and Brookes respectively, giving British athletes their biggest ever X Games medal haul, and confirming Britain’s standing as one of the most progressive nations in Park & Pipe competition.
Brookes kicked things off in spectacular style with a dominant Slopestyle victory, before Atkin put her own polish on proceedings with gold in the Superpipe. Brookes’ day two Big Air medal, delivered with a signature cab-14, put Britain at three podiums from three performanecs, before Muir capped things off in spectacular form with a brace of day three medals, and a best ever set of British X Games results.
Ryding signs off in Kitzbuehel with 20th
On a slope steeped in British Slalom history, Dave Ryding marked his final Kitzbuehel performance with a battling 20th place finish. The site of three of Ryding’s seven World Cup podiums, Kitzbuehel was written into British history when the country’s greatest ever Alpine ski racer took the nation’s first ever Slalom World Cup victory there in 2022, before following it up with a second place finish just a year later. While a fourth Kitzbuehel podium never appeared in the offing, Ryding was nevertheless the pick of the Brits, finishing just over a second outside of the top-10.
Billy Major secured a fifth top-30 berth of the season finishing in 24th, while Laurie Taylor was a first run DNQ and Luca Carrick-Smith a first run DNF, while in the Speed events Roy Steudle recorded a Super-G DNF and 53rd in Downhill.
Para squad deliver solid performances in Lenk and Jakuszyce
The Para Nordic and Para Snowboard squads recorded solid performances in the Jakuszyce Para Biathlon World Cup and Lenk Para Snowboard Cross World Cup and Europa Cup races, as teams gear up towards the Paralympic Winter Games in early March.
In Para Nordic, Scott Meenagh‘s best result came in the 7.5km Sprint where he finished fifth, before coming eighth and seventh in the Sprint Pursuit and 12.5km Individual events.
In Para Snowboard, James Barnes-Miller came closest to a medal finishing sixth and fourth in back-to-back showings, while Ollie Hill took seventh and ninth berths. In the Europa Cup field, Davy Zyw took his third EC podium of the season, and first in SBX, with a third place finish.
Taylor victorious in Melchsee-Frutt
Jaz Taylor added another Telemark World Cup victory to her illustrious record, winning the first of back-to-back Parallel Sprint World Cups in Melchsee-Frutt. The result gives Taylor her third podium and second victory of the 2025/26 World Cup season, and the third of her career in Melchsee-Frutt.
Returning Paralympians make up first cohort of Milan-Cortina Paralympic Winter Games Snowsport team
Six athletes competing across three Para Snowsport disciplines have been named in the first wave of Snowsport selections for the ParalympicsGB team set to travel for the Paralympic Winter Games in Milan-Cortina next year.
Beijing 2022 Para Alpine double-medallist Neil Simpson is selected alongside guides Andrew Simpson and Rob Poth, while in Para Snowboard Ollie Hill and James Barnes-Miller return for their second and third Games respectively. Scott Meenagh, meanwhile, rounds out the first wave of selections being named to represent Britain in Para Nordic skiing for a third Paralympic Winter Games having made his debut in PyeongChang in 2018.
All six athletes were nominated and selected having fulfilled the A Band selection criteria, with a second wave of selections in Para Alpine and Para Snowboard due to be made in February 2026.
Speaking after selections were confirmed, James REdpath, GB Snowsport Head of Paralympic Programmes said:
“Everyone at GB Snowsport would like to congratulate Scott, Ollie, James, Neil, Andrew, and Rob on their selections for the ParalympicsGB team for next year’s Games. These selections are the result of four years of hard work and dedication from the athletes, their coaches, and the whole team that surrounds them, and represent a really proud moment for everyone involved in the process.
“As everyone knows, this isn’t the end of the hard work, but just the beginning of the next phase, for both these six athletes and the other skiers and snowboarders looking to cement their selection in the second round of nominations in February. All our athletes, and the whole team, are laser focused on ensuring we’re in a position to peak in March next year and make the Milan-Cortina Paralympic Winter Games another celebration of Britain’s strength in Para Snowsport.“
Beijing 2022 Para Snowboard bronze medallist, Ollie Hill, said:
“Lovely. Let’s see what we can cook up this games. Can’t believe it’s been 4 years already! How time flies….”
Scott Meenagh added:
“I am incredibly proud to be selected to represent Great Britain at the Paralympic Winter Games. Every time is incredibly special, and this year will be my third Games. This is a testament to the powerful dream we had as a group, when this journey was conceived in a coffee shop in 2016.
“A Games in Italy will be extra special as it’s much closer to home. To have my wife, children, family, and friends travelling to support me will help push me to another level.”
Everyone at GB Snowsport would like to congratulate all six of our selected athletes.
Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale hit gold, Atkin clinches Silver in China, and XC team impress in Davos
Bankes and Nightingale top Team standings in Cervinia
Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale took Snowboard Cross World Cup victory on the season’s first week of SBX action with a sensational display of racing speed and tactics.
The 2023 Team SBX World Champions raced brilliantly throughout Sunday’s event, qualifying in second spot from the Quarter Final stage before victory in the Semi Final saw them through to a Big Final showdown against teams representing Italy, France, and Germany.
Sitting in third position after the men’s run, Bankes then dominated the women’s run to seal victory ahead of Italy in second and France in third.
In the individual competitions, Bankes marked her first appearance since sustaining a broken collarbone to take ninth spot, while in the Men’s contest, Nightingale finished 34th and Max Vardy took 37th on his World Cup debut.
Atkin wins Silver in Secret Garden
Zoe Atkin marked her first appearance of the season with silver in the Secret Garden Halfpipe World Cup. The reigning Halfpipe World Champion skied brilliantly in challenging conditions to lead the standings after the first run, before she was overhauled by China’s Eileen Gu by a margin of 1.50 points.
Earlier, the men’s competition saw Gus Kenworthy and Sam Gaskin finish 34th and 35th respectively, while Siddhartha Ullah came 30th in the Men’s Snowboard competition.
Clugnet and Musgrave headline strong showing for Cross-Country team in Davos
James Clugnet and Andrew Musgrave put in superb showings amid a strong team performance in Davos on the latest leg of the Cross-Country World Cup. Clugnet’s tenth place finish in the Men’s SP F was followed by sixth place for Musgrave in 10km F to give both athletes their best finish of the season so far. Earlier, the Team Sprint had seen both Clugnet and Andrew Young and Anna Pryce and Tabitha Williams finish in 17th, just outside of Finals, while Pryce was also on impressive form to take 35th in the Sprint Free, and Young 41st in the 10km F. Joe Davies, meanwhile, made his first appearance of the season taking an excellent 17th place in the 10km F.
Meenagh secures brace of Biathlon top-10s in Canmore
Scott Meenagh‘s first Para Biathlon World Cup showing of the season yielded a brace of top-10 finishes alongside an 11th place in the 12.5km Individual. The highlight came with a 5th place in the Sprint discipline which saw Meenagh in striking distance of a podium before a crash and damaged ski held back further progress, before following up with an 8th place in the Sprint Pursuit.
Two in top-30 in Men’s Val d’Isere Slalom
A challenging course delivered two top-30 finishes for the Men’s Alpine Slalom team, with Laurie Taylor finishing 12th and Billy Major 24th. With three Brits in the top-15 after the first run omens looked good for a strong showing, but course challenges saw a DNF for Dave Ryding while Taylor and Major both battled through to cement their top-30 standings.
Luca Carrick-Smith and Freddy Carrick-Smith both recorded first run DNFs in the Slalom and Giant Slalom respectively.
And the rest…
Ollie Davies was pick of the Brits in the Ski Cross Val Thorens World Cup finishing 21st in the second of the back-to-back World Cups, taking 46th in the first race. Scott Johns finished 53rd and 57th.
Fred Warburton and guide James Hannan were Britain’s only representatives in the Steinach Para Alpine World Cup, finishing 7th in Alpine Combined, 8th in the SG Speed Event, and 8th and 7th in back-to-back SG World Cups.
Britain’s Park & Pipe team shone on two of China’s biggest stages, while there was Cross-Country, Moguls, Para Nordic, and Alpine action in Europe and North America
Brits Shine on the Beijing Big Air Stage
Mia Brookes banked her fourth career World Cup victory with a masterclass performance in the Beijing Big Air World Cup to see off a strong field in the Chinese capital. Making her first competitive appearance of the season, Brookes breezed through qualifiers in top spot with a score of 173.73, before bringing out a backside-12 melon and a cab-14 stale in Finals to below away the competition, delivering a 30-point victory margin. In the Men’s competition, Txema Mazet-Brown qualified from heat one with a well-executed cab-12, before delivering a personal best World Cup result of seventh place in a strong showing against some of the world’s best Big Air riders.
In Freeski, Kirsty Muir showcased her grit and resilience, bouncing back from a heavy crash in the second run of Finals to take fourth place and a share of the yellow bib having earlier qualified in second position.
Tom Greenway earned his best World Cup result in the Men’s Freeski contest with an overall 17th place finish, stomping a double-12 tail and switch left double-18 stale to secure an excellent score of 153.00 in qualifiers.
Elsewhere in Women’s Snowboard, Katie Ormerod finished 30th after a run one knuckle led to a decision to pull out after the first run of competitions, while Maisie Hill was a DNS following a practice run crash and Chris McCormick was also a DNS in Men’s Freeski after a crash in practice.
Kenworthy returns to podium on first competition in four years
In Snow League Halfpipe, Gus Kenworthy made an astonishing return to competition after four years’ absence, delivering a third place finish and his first major podium since 2020 with a classic demonstration of Halfpipe skiing.
The 34-year-old, who announced his return to action earlier this year, rolled back the years to progress to the Semi Final stage of the new knockout format competition, before winning the third-place playoff after his opponent was forced to withdraw with injury.
Zoe Atkin, despite her best efforts, was unable to compete due to illness.
A weekend of breakthroughs and momentum for the Cross Country squad
The Cross Country squad delivered a solid set of results across Sprint Classic, 20km Skiathlon and 10km Interval Start Free in Trondheim. For the first time since 2019, Britain fielded a team across the men’s and women’s competition with World Cup debuts from Tabitha Williams and Anna Pryce.
In the 20km Skiathlon, Andrew Musgrave was in solid form as he came in 13th, with Gabriel Gledhill following behind crossing the line in 65th.
In the women’s Skiathlon, World Cup debutants Tabitha Willams and Anna Pryce put down a strong showing to return home with 51st and 55th place finishes.
The Sprint Classic saw Pryce and James Clugnet take 63rd and 65th place respectively.
Over in the 10km Interval Start Free, Williams and Pryce secured 57th and 68th positions while in the men’s race, Musgrave ended up in 53rd, Gledhill 68th and Clugnet 76th.
Meenagh gets season underway in Canmore
In the Para-Nordic 10km Mass Start Classic sitting classification, Scott Meenagh opened his World Cup campaign with a hard-earned 13th place in the Canadian resort of Canmore, with Britain’s most successful ever Para Nordic skier now set to take on three Para Biathlon World Cup competitions this week in the Sprint, Sprint Pursuit, and 12.5km Individual events.
Moguls athletes Kick-Off the season in Ruka
Makayla Gerken-Schofield got her World Cup season underway with battling 26th and 33rd place finishes on an incredibly gnarly course. whilst Mateo Jeannesson was a DNS as he and the team build a strategy to see him peak in the coming months of the season.
Hard-Fought Alpine Results on the Birds of Prey
Downhill action in Beaver Creek saw Roy-Alexander Steudle to 63rd place as he battled through a demanding set on a challenging track; while unsafe weather conditions saw the Super G race to be cancelled for Steudle as his start bib fell outside of the top 30.
Paralympians selected in all three Para disicplines for Milan-Cortina season
13 skiers and snowboarders have been named to GB Snowsport’s World Cup squads across three Paralympic disciplines ahead of the start of the 2025/26 season.
In a year which will see the season culminate in the Paralympic Winter Games in Milan-Cortina in March, the squads bear significant Paralympic experience with previous Paralympic Games medallists Neil Simpson, Ollie Hill, and Britain’s most decorated Winter Paralympian Menna Fitzpatrick all set to compete in the year ahead.
In Para Alpine, Simpson and Fitzpatrick are joined by Hester Poole, while Katie Guest, Adam Hall, Alistair Hall, Andrew Simpson, and Rob Poth are selected as Guides. Scott Meenagh is the lone selection in Para Nordic, coming off the back of a season which saw him finish third in the overall IBU Para Biathlon World Cup standings, while Para Snowboard will see the four-athlete World Cup squad of last season return, with James Barnes-Miller, Matt Hamilton, Ollie Hill, and Nina Sparks all set for action.
Commenting on selections, James Redpath, GB snowsport Head of Paralympic Programmes, said:
“This is an experienced, talented group of athletes who have all proven themselves at the highest levels of our sport.
“For many of them, this year will mark the culmination of four years of hard work in both competition and training, but before our focus shifts too far towards Milan-Cortina, we’re all aware that we have important work to do to put ourselves in the best position for success at the Games.
“Every athlete selected to the squad has earned their place through real commitment and dedication, and we look forward to watching them continue to deliver throughout the coming season.”
The Para Alpine World Cup season is scheduled to begin at Steinach, Austria in December, with Para Nordic beginning with both Biathlon and Cross Country competitions in Canmore, Canada in December, while the Para Snowboard season gets underway in Landgraaf in the Netherlands at the end of November.
Full Squad Selections:
Para Alpine World Cup squad
- Menna Fitzpatrick
- Hester Poole
- Neil Simpson
- Katie Guest (Guide)
- Adam Hall (Guide)
- Alistair Hall (Guide)
- Andrew Simpson (Guide)
- Rob Poth (Guide)
Para Nordic World Cup squad
- Scott Meenagh
Para Snowboard World Cup squad
- James Barnes-Miller
- Matt Hamilton
- Ollie Hill
- Nina Sparks
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.