31-year-old ends season with three Globes and two World championships medals
Jasmin Taylor’s remarkable defence of the Telemark World Cup title she secured last season ended in success as she claimed an incredible third Crystal Globe in three days on the final day of the 2024/25 Telemark World Cup season.
Having confirmed the Classic and Sprint Globes in the first two days of World Cup Finals actions in Thyon, Taylor was crowned Overall champion on the back of a season which saw her deliver twelve World Cup podiums including six victories. In the final standings, Taylor stood 75 points clear of her nearest rival, France’s Argeline Tan Bouquet, and more than 200 points ahead of Augustine Carliez in third place.
Taylor’s first podium of the season came in the opening World Cup Sprint race in PInzolo on 20 December, and it wasn’t until the sixth World Cup contest of the season, more than a month later, that her first non-podium position arrived, by which point the defending champion had built up a lead which would prove insurmountable at the head of the standings.
Having achieved history last season as Britain’s first ever Telemark Crystal Globe winner, Taylor has now attained sporting immortality with five Globes across two seasons confirming her status as one of Britain’s greatest ever winter sport athletes.
Telemark star defends Sprint Globe at culmination of stunning season
Jaz Taylor secured her second Crystal Globe in two days as a sixth place finish in the final Telemark Sprint World Cup of the 2024/25 season left her with an insurmountable lead at the top of the Sprint standings.
Having won the Sprint Globe in the 2024/25 season, Taylor’s defence of the title was nothing short of extraordinary coming from seven podiums including three victories in Pinzolo, Carezza, and Krvarvec.
With the season now headed for its final World Cup contest in the Parallel Sprint discipline, Taylor remains at the head of the Overall Crystal Globe rankings chasing what would be a scarcely believable three Globe season.
Telemark star continues record-breaking globe haul with classic title
Jaz Taylor secured the Telemark Classic Crystal Globe with a phenomenal performance at the Thyon 4 Vallees Classic World Cup this morning, taking victory by a margin of more than two seconds.
Racing in her fourth Classic World Cup of the season, Taylor completed a podium clean sweep having earlier taken third place in Al, second in Pra Loup and victory in Krvavec to leave her 68 points ahead of Augustine Carliez in the race for the Classic Globe and almost a hundred points clear of Kaja Bjoernstad Konow in third place in the standings.
Taylor’s Thyon victory came in a time of 1:52.93, 2.19s ahead of Norway’s Konow in second, with Argeline Tan Bouquet of France in third on the day 2.84s behind Taylor’s finishing time.
Victory in Thyon also sets up Taylor’s quest for back-to-back Overall Telemark titles with Sprint and Parallel Sprint races to go, while she also remains in the hunt for both remaining individual discipline Globes heading into the final World Cup races of the season.
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.
Telemark star takes second podium of the week
Jaz Taylor secured a second podium of the 2025 Telemark World Championships with bronze in the Classic discipline, banking a sixth career World Championships podium in the process.
Having qualified in first place, Taylor’s finishing time of 2:04.25 was enough to take third spot behind Johanna Holzmann of Germany in first and France’s Argeline Tan Bouquet who secured silver.
The result marks Taylor’s third Classic discipline bronze at World Championships level, and means she has now taken two medals at back-to-back World Championships having first achieved the feat in Murren in 2023.
Attention now turns to the final Telemark races of the World Cup season in Thyon 4 Vallees, where Taylor will be battling to defend the Crystal Globe title she won last season, and where she currently holds a 115 point advantage over Tan Bouquet in second place.
Brit seals fifth career World Champs podium
Jaz Taylor took the fifth World Championships podium of her career with a battling third place finish in the Sprint discipline at the 2025 Telemark World Championships in Les Contamines.
In a race won by Germany’s Johanna Holzmann in her first competitive appearance in almost three years, Taylor put in a strong performance across the two runs to take bronze and a twelfth major podium of the season, with Augustine Carliez of France in second.
Taylor’s World Championships campaign continues Team and individual Parallel Sprint and Classic races to follow over the course of the week.
Telemark star extends Overall standings lead
An 11th podium of the season extended Jaz Taylor’s lead in the Overall Telemark World Cup standings with silver in this morning’s Telemark Classic World Cup race in Pra Loup.
The first race of the Pra Loup meet saw a tight battle between Taylor and Augustine Carliez tip in the French skiers favour, with the British defending Crystal Globe holder finishing 2.29s behind Carliez in second, with Laly Chaucheprat taking a distant third some 5.5s behind Taylor.
Taylor’s Overall World Cup lead now stands at 115 points with four World Cup races to go, including Classic and Sprint races to follow this week in Pra Loup.
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.
Jaz Taylor’s latest World Cup win sees her extend Overall World Cup standings lead
Jaz Taylor continued her incredible Crystal Globe defence with a second consecutive World Cup victory in Krvarvec, the latest coming in the Classic discipline.
Coming hot off the back of her Sprint discipline win on Friday, Taylor’s latest victory saw her win out over Argeline Tan Bouquet in second with the French skiers’s counterpart, Lily Chaucheprat in third.
Taylor’s World Cup standings lead now sits at 85 points over Tan Bouquet, while she also leads the Sprint and Classic standings by 35 points and 10 points respectively, with the next World Cup races coming in Pra Loup on 10-14 March.