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
- Cali Carr*
- Makayla Gerken-Schofield
- Mateo Jeannesson
Freeski Park & Pipe
- Zoe Atkin (Halfpipe)
- Tom Greenway* (Slopestyle & Big Air)
- Chris McCormick (Slopestyle & Big Air)
- Kirsty Muir (Slopestyle & Big Air)
- James Pouch* (Slopestyle & Big Air)
- Liam Richards* (Halfpipe)
Snowboard Park & Pipe
- Mia Brookes (Slopestyle & Big Air)
- Maisie Hill* (Slopestyle & Big Air)
- Txema Mazet-Brown* (Slopestyle & Big Air)
- Katie Ormerod (Slopestyle & Big Air)
- Siddhartha Ullah* (Halfpipe)
Snowboard Cross
- Charlotte Bankes
- Huw Nightingale
Ski Cross
- Ollie Davies
- Scott Johns*
* Set for World Championships debut
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.
Snowboard Cross overall leader bounces back from shock qualification stage exit on Friday
Charlotte Bankes secured victory at this morning’s Gudauri Snowboard Cross World Cup, delivering an impressive comeback following a shock qualification stage exit in the first of the weekend’s double-header contests.
Having failed to progress to Quarter Finals in a surprise qualification stage elimination on Friday, Bankes bounced back in typically determined style with her fifth World Cup victory of the season in the Georgian resort of Gudauri.
Bankes dominated proceedings in Gudauri finishing top at each stage of today’s racing, before coming from the back of the field to seize victory in the Big Final, extending her lead at the top of the World Cup standings in the process, with three World Cup meets left to come this season.
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.
Bankes and Nightingale second in day of dramatic racing
Great Britain took silver in the first Team Snowboard Cross World Cup competition of the season in Erzurum, Turkey, this afternoon.
The British pair of Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale qualified second from their Quarter Final heat, before coming first in a photo finish Semi Final heat with Bankes nudging ahead of Josie Baff of the Australian pairing on the finish line.
That set the stage for a Big Final which pitched the GB team against Australia (Baff and Cameron Bolton), Austria (Pia Zerkhold and Lukas Pachner), and the USA’s second team (Acy Craig and Nathan Pare). Sitting in fourth place at the midway point, Bankes raced brilliantly to bring the British team into second position finishing just behind the Australians at the close, with Austria taking third.
The result means Bankes and Nightingale have podiumed in two of the three Team SBX races held over the past two seasons, in addition to the World Championships title they secured in Bakuriani in 2023 and will look to defend in St Moritz later this month.
Speaking afterwards, Huw said:
“It felt amazing to race the team event again with Charlotte. She’s such a great racer and a brilliant teammate.
“We’re really happy to have another team event podium under our belt, and we’re both really looking forward to the next one in Montafon.”
SBX star delivers dominant performance in Turkey
Charlotte Bankes won her fourth consecutive Snowboard Cross World Cup competition this afternoon in Erzurum, Turkey, to extend her lead in the overall 2024/25 season standings.
Bankes was made to battle hard through the Quarter Finals, progressing from second position having sat in last place at the first and second intervals, before again coming through from the back of the field in the Big Final to secure victory ahead of Lea Casta of France in second place, and Australia’s Josie Baff in third.
Bankes’ record for the season now reads four victories from five World Cup contests, putting her 85 points clear in the overall World Cup standings as she looks to retake the Crystal Globe that she won in 2021/22 and 2022/23.
Speaking afterwards, Charlotte said:
“The race went really well. It was a hard-fought final but really happy to come away with the win.
“Our tactics today were to get best start as possible which we fixed for the semi final and then keep my head up to find the opening and just push until the finish.”
History rewritten as GB Snowsport athletes deliver series of stunning performances
Britain’s ski and snowboard athletes delivered one of the greatest weekends of action in living memory with a series of stunning performances across multiple disciplines.
Slalom teams rewrite history books in Saalbach
An already promising Alpine World Championships featuring strong performances in Speed led by Roy-Alexander Steudle went into overdrive in the closing Tech races. After a strong platoon performance in the Men’s and Women’s Giant Slalom races headlined by Molly Butler‘s 34th place finish, the Women’s and Men’s Slalom teams rewrote history across two stunning days in Saalbach.
First in the Women’s Slalom, Reece Bell delivered on her exceptional promise with a 20th place finish which marked Britain’s best result in the competition since Emma Carrick-Anderson’s 11th place in 1997 with Victoria Palla finishing in 23rd to give the nation its first double top-30 performance since 1993.
The following day’s Men’s Slalom saw history further rewritten as Dave Ryding secured the best result in a Men’s Alpine World Championships since 1934 taking sixth on the back of a barnstorming second run performance. Ryding was joined in the top-20 by Billy Major, whose 15th place finish included the fourth fastest second run in the entire field.
Atkin second in Calgary, shares Halfpipe Crystal Globe
Zoe Atkin‘s Halfpipe World Cup campaign delivered yet another podium with a second place finish in the Calgary Halfpipe World Cup and a share in the 2024/25 Crystal Globe alongside China’s Li Fanghui.
Atkin’s season record now stands at three podiums from five World Cup competitions, Silver medal winning performances in Copper and Calgary bookending a first World Cup victory in more than five years in Aspen at the start of February.
Atkin’s performances landed a second British Crystal Globe of the season following Mia Brookes’ Snowboard Big Air title.
There was more to celebrate in Calgary as Liam Richards made a World Cup Finals for the first time in his career, skiing brilliantly to secure a 13th place finish and continue his extraordinary trajectory in a stacked Men’s Halfpipe field.
Bankes’ brilliance continues in Cortina
Charlotte Bankes notched a third consecutive Snowboard Cross World Cup victory with a brilliantly orchestrated race in Cortina.
With a strategy built on express pace in the latter half of the circuit, Bankes battled back from trailing positions in the Quarter, Semi, and Big Final races to charge through for a third World Cup win of the season and a renewed demonstration of her racing prowess and ability to carve out results from within the most competitive fields.
Bankes now leads the Women’s SBX standings by 65 points from Lea Casta of France in second, and sits 100 points ahead of Australian Josie Baff in third.
Taylor’s Telemark season delivers yet another podium in Al
Jaz Taylor added to her proud Telemark World Cup podium record with a superb third place finish at the Al Classic World Cup, backing up a brace of fourth place finishes in the Sprint and Parallel Sprint races.
The latest performance marks a seventh World Cup podium of the season for Britain’s greatest ever Telemark skier, with World Cup Finals and a World Championships to follow.
Young talent excels at EYOF
The 2025 European Youth Olympic Festival concluded with five British snowsport medals highlighting the rich potential of the next generation of British ski and snowboard talent.
Following Freddy Carrick-Smith‘s GS gold in the opening days of competition, Zak Carrick-Smith made it two with Slalom bronze, before Sandra Caune seized a brace of medals with bronze in Freeski Slopestyle and gold in Freeski Big Air, the latter of which was matched by Emily Rothney in the Freestyle Snowboard competition.
The results mark an outstanding return for a talented team that travelled to Bakuriani, with the promise of more to come in the future.
Davies impresses in Falun Cross-Country World Cup
Joe Davies‘ excellent season continued with the two best British results at the Falun Cross-Country World Cup, headlined by an 18th place finish in the 20km F Mst event. Andrew Young made it two Brits in the top-30, coming in in 29th place.
Snowboard Cross strengthens hold on overall lead with dominant showing
Charlotte Bankes secured her third World Cup win of the season with victory at the Cortina d’Ampezzo Snowboard Cross World Cup this evening.
Having sailed through qualifying in top spot, Bankes was made to battle through the knock out rounds, coming from behind at every stage before surging through to take victory in a hotly contested Big Final against a triumvirate of French riders, with Lea Casta finishing second and Manon Petit Lenoir in third. Julia Pereira de Sousa, meanwhile, took fourth.
The gives Bankes a third consecutive World Cup victory, with only fourth place in the season’s opening race preventing a clean sweep of victories to date.
The 29-year-old now boasts an incredible ten individual World Cup podiums since the beginning of last season, cementing her reputation as one of Britain’s most consistently dominant athletes.
Speaking afterwards, Charlotte said:
“I’m really happy. It was super tight racing today but I managed to pull off a good start and I knew we had the speed at the bottom. The boards are running well and we’d worked out a good line, so it was just a case of trying to pull it off.
“I didn’t quite believe it was going to happen, but really happy with how it went today, a great team effort.
“We’re not even halfway through for our season yet, so it’s just keeping that focus race after race, keeping working hard, keeping it going, and hopefully that gives us that momentum.”
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.
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