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…

Jaz Taylor added another Sprint podium at a thrilling race in Trillevallen

Jaz Taylor added the sixth podium of a remarkable season at today’s Trillevallen Telemark Sprint World Cup with a battling third place finish.

Fresh off a fourth place in the preceding day’s races, Taylor’s bronze medal finish came behind the French pair of Laly Chaucheprat in first and Angeline Tan Bouquet in second, with the Brit’s time of 1:48.59 putting her just 2.60s off first place.

Taylor now boasts six podiums from eight World Cup races this season and stands top of the overall Telemark World Cup standings, 50 points clear of second placed Tan Bouquet, while she also tops the Sprint standings with Chaucheprat 44 points behind her.

The Telemark circuit next moves to the Norwegian resort of Al for races across 14-16 February, before a break until early March.

Mia Brookes and Jaz Taylor continued their podium crusades, while there were strong performances across Europe for British athletes

X Games ends with double podiums for Mia Brookes

The 2025 Winter X Games ended with two Mia Brookes medals in Slopestyle and the non-Olympic Knuckle Huck discipline, as well as an excellent fourth place in Big Air.

Coming into the Slopestyle competition as defending champion, Brookes looked set for a medal from the outset with her usual style and dynamism on full show, landing her a blistering 94.00 in her first playoff run to qualify for Finals in top spot. What followed was possibly the highest quality Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle contest in X Games history, as Brookes, Kokomo Murase, and Zoi Sadowski-Synnott each delivered sensational runs to blow the competition wide open. In the final reckoning, Brookes’ 88.33 was enough to comfortably secure bronze, with Murase taking silver with a second run 90.33, and Sadowski-Synnott landing a run for the ages for 94.66.

Later in the day, Brookes’ X Games Knuckle Huck debut yielded an excellent silver medal, coming in second behind Murase and ahead of Lily Dhawornvej of the US who took the bronze medal slot. In three visits to X Games, Brookes now boasts three medals and two fourth-place finishes, marking her out as one of the competition’s most reliably competitive athletes.

Elsewhere, Zoe Atkin fell just short of a third X Games medal of her won in the Freeski Superpipe, coming fourth in a highly competitive Final won by Cassie Sharpe. Atkin’s qualification score of 89.00 had been enough for a second place finish during Playoffs, and would have secured Gold in the Finals, but in a high grade Final, could only muster a 68.00 to leave her in fourth place.

Ryding and Taylor share 16th in Kitzbuehel

The legendary Kitzbuehel Slalom, won so memorably by Dave Ryding in 2021, yielded dual 16th place finishes for Ryding and Laurie Taylor amid a rainy 2025 edition. In imperfect conditions, Ryding and Taylor each navigated two challenging runs to give Britain another brace of top-20 finishes in a season marked by impressive consistency from the British Men’s Alpine team.

The result continues Ryding’s streak of top-20 finishes on the iconic Austrian course, which now stretches to an increadible eight consecutive seasons since a second run DNF in 2016, while for Taylor it marks a best ever result Kitzbuehel result, bettering his 19th place finish last year.

Earlier, the team came close to a three-man second run contingent, with only a sector two error preventing Billy Major from breaking into the top-30, while in the earlier Super G races, Roy-Alexander Steudle‘s first World Cup of the season finished agonisingly close to the top-30 with only a late error forcing him into 36th spot, the result marking a storming return from injury for the experienced Speed skier, and Britain’s best Men’s World Cup SG result since Finley Mickel took 33rd in Gardena/Groeden in 2006.

Taylor first and fifth in Melchsee-Frutt

Jaz Taylor maintained her grip on the Overall Telemark World Cup leaderboard with first and fifth place finishes at the back-to-back Melchsee-Frutt Parallel Sprint World Cup races.

A barnstorming display of head-to-head racing in the week’s first race saw Taylor comfortably hold off Argeline Tan Bouquet to secure her third World Cup victory and fifth podium of the 2025 season, before the weekend’s second race saw her off the podium for the first time in nine races, as Strom Goril Eriksen came through for victory, again ahead of Tan Bouquet of France.

Taylor’s overall standings lead now sits at 60 points with 485, with Tan Bouquet sitting second on 425, and Augustine Carliez in third on 355.

Gerken Schofield makes Moguls return in impressive Waterville showing

Makayla Gerken Schofield‘s return from injury saw the Beijing 2022 Olympian deliver a pair of hugely impressive performances to take 14th in Dual Moguls and 16th in the single event, having not skied competitively since March following a knee injury sustained during the summer. The results mark the 37th and 38th top-20 World Cup finishes of Gerken Schofield’s career, and confirms their continued ability to mix it with the best in the sport, even after almost a year on the sidelines.

Elsewhere, Will Feneley also made his comeback from injury almost two years on from his last World Cup appearance, while Mateo Jeannesson‘s 23rd and 19th in Dual and Single Moguls showed impressive consistency from the Junior World Champion. Cali Carr, meanwhile, took 31st in the single event.

Musgrave 14th in Engadin

Andrew Musgrave notched another top-20 World Cup finish at the Engadin 20km F Mass Start Cross Country race this weekend, finishing in 14th spot. His time of 53:39.3 put him less than 10s outside of the top-10 in a race dominated by the Norwegian and French teams, who secured nine of the top-10 spots. Teammate James Clugnet finished in 55th spot having taken 34th place in the Sprint Free races the previous day.

More weather impacts curtail Para Snowboard Lenk World Cup

The Lenk Para Snowboard Cross World Cup races saw a curtailed race programme after poor weather locally left the course out of action in the first day of competition, but recovered sufficiently to permit racing in the competition’s second day of action. Ollie Hill was the pick of the British competitors, taking eighth spot in the Men’s Lower Limb 2 category.

Jaz Taylor and Mia Brookes’ excellent seasons continued in MElchsee and Aspen

GB Snowsport athletes were celebrating two more podiums this evening, as Jaz Taylor and Mia Brookes took Gold and Bronze in Telemark World Cup and X Games Slopestyle respectively.

Up first for the day, Taylor’s victory in the Melchsee-Frutt Parallel Sprint World Cup marked her seventh consecutive World Cup podium and her third victory of the season, as she saw off the challenges of Argeline Tan Bouquet and Augustine Carliez, both of France, in second and third respectively.

Taylor’s result strengthens her lead at the top of the overall Telemark standings, as she looks to defend the Crystal Globe that she secured last year.

Speaking afterwards, Taylor said:

“It’s so intense racing head to head and the great thing about it is when you cross the finish line ahead, knowing you’ve won, it’s just the best feeling. Thank you to everyone making this possible!

The evening’s competition saw Mia Brookes take third as she set out to defend her X Games Slopestyle title, having finished fourth In the previous night’s Big Air contest.

Sitting in first place after the playoff heat, the Finals saw some of the highest quality women’s Slopestyle snowboarding ever recorded in competition, with Brookes securing third place behind Zoi Sadowski-Synott and Kokomo Murase having gone down attempting a gold-medal challenging run at her final attempt.

Some of the season’s most iconic contests land in a week of intense competition

X Games – Aspen

The Winter X Games rolls back into Aspen, with defending Slopestyle champion Mia Brookes and two-time X Games medallist Zoe Atkin set for action.

Brookes will drop into Snowboard Slopestyle and Big Air action having secured a stunning victory at least year’s Slopestyle competition, while Atkin is set for the Freeski Superpipe where she won Gold in 2023 and Silver in 2024.

X Games – British Line-Up:

  • Zoe Atkin (Freeski Superpipe)
  • Mia Brookes (Freestyle Snowboard Slopestyle and Big Air)

Alpine World Cup – Kitzbuehel

Alpine action heads to one of the most iconic World Cup venues on the calendar, with the Kitzbuehel Slalom and Super-G World Cups this weekend.

Site of Dave Ryding‘s history-making Slalom World Cup victory in 2022 and second place finishes in 2017 and 2023, this weekend will also see Billy Major and Laurie Taylor in Slalom action, while Roy-Alexander Steudle will start his first World Cup of the 2024/25 season in the Super-G after an impressive recovery from injury which has a slew of promosing EC and FIS race performances over the past month.

Kitzbuehel wOrld Cup – British Line-Up:

  • Billy Major (SL)
  • Dave Ryding (SL)
  • Roy-Alexaner Steudle (SG)
  • Laurie Taylor (SL)

Moguls World Cup – Waterville

The first Moguls World Cups of 2025 will see a full World Cup squad contingent compete across Moguls and Dual Moguls contests in Waterville, USA. Makayla Gerken Schofield and Will Feneley are set for their first World Cup competitions of the season after periods out with injury, while Mateo Jeannesson and Cali Carr are set to continue their campaigns after the Christmas and New Year hiatus.

waterville World Cup – British Line-Up:

  • Cali Carr
  • Will Feneley
  • Makayla Gerken Schofield
  • Mateo Jeannesson

Cross Country World Cup – Engadin

Engadin marks the next stop on the Cross Country World Cup circuit, with James Clugnet and Andrew Musgrave set for action, with the Swiss resort hosting World Cup competition for the first time since 2021.

Two days of racing for the British contingent will see Sprint Free and 20km Mass Start Free races set for the Saturday and Sunday.

Engadin World Cup – British Line-Up:

James Clugnet

Andrew Musgrave

Para Snowboard World Cup – Lenk

The Para Snowboard team move onto the next Snowboard Cross World Cup of the season in Lenk, with James Barnes-Miller, Ollie Hill, and Nina Sparks lining up for the second PSB World Cup meet of the year. The team will be looking to build on a solid set of performances in Pyha last weekend, with Matt Hamilton potentially set to join the team’s World Cup field pending confirmation of entry.

Lenk Snowboard Cross World Cup – British Line-Up:

  • James Barnes-Miller
  • Ollie Hill
  • Nina Sparks
  • Matt Hamilton TBC

Telemark World Cup – Melchsee-Frutt

Jaz Taylor will look to continue her podium streak at the Melchsee-Frutt Telemark Parallel Sprint World Cup races, with Hamish Ross and Jamie Dykes also both set to compete in the Men’s competition. With four podiums under her belt already this season, Taylor’s Crystal Globe defence has got off to a flying start which she will be looking to carry into Swiss territory at this week’s races.

Melchsee-Frutt Parallel Slalom World Cup – British Line-Up:

  • Jamie Dykes
  • Hamish Ross
  • Jaz Taylor

Where to watch

British viewers can catch X Games 2025 live on X Games’ YouTube channel, while Cross-Country, Alpine, and Moguls action will be avaialble across Eurosport throughout the weekend.

Mia Brookes and Jaz Taylor delivered World Cup podiums on another weekend of British snowsport successes

Brookes dominant in Brilliant Laax showing

An already spectacular season from Mia Brookes added another World Cup victory as the teenager laid down a phenomenal display at the Laax Open Slopestyle World Cup.

After a comfortable qualifying run at a venue that practically counts as a home park, Brookes set the bar at an unmatchable 84.86 in the first Final run, ensuring her second run counted for little more than a victory lap. In a performance shot through with the style and technical supremacy that has become a hallmark of her riding, Brookes’ margin of victory stood at more than seven points, with Zoi Sadowski Synnott in second on 77.29 and Kokomo Murase in third on 71.15.

The performance gave Brookes her fifth World Cup podium and third World Cup victory of the season, while also marking a first World Cup victory in the Slopestyle discipline, which she famously took a World Championship title in at 16.

Elsewhere in Laax, Maisie Hill took 16th in the Women’s Freestyle Snowboard competition, Chris McCormick delivered his best Slopestyle World Cup performance of the season to finish in 16th in the Men’s Freeski, Siddhartha Ullah and Aaron Wild finished 28th and 34th respectively in Men’s Snowboard Halfpipe, Txema Mazet-Brown was solid with 30th in Men’s Freestyle Snowboard, and James Pouch came 52nd in Men’s Freeski.

Ryding and Major secure World Cup points in Wengen

On the notoriously challenging Wengen piste, Dave Ryding and Billy Major took more Slalom World Cup points with 19th and 26th place finishes respectively, while Laurie Taylor just missed out on a second run coming in 34th.

The result gives Ryding his sixth top-20 finish in seven World Cup races this season, while Major made the top-30 for the second consecutive World Cup, while Ryding’s second run saw him deliver the second fastest time in the field.

Taylor delivers double podiums in Carezza

Jaz Taylor‘s imperious Telemark Sprint World Cup form continued with first and second place finishes at the Carezza World Cup this week. The results leave Taylor, the defending Crystal Globe holder, top of the overall standings with 340 points to Argeline Tan’s 265, with Tan’s fellow French athlete Augustine Carliez in third.

In the Men’s races, Hamish Ross finished 23rd and 25th.

The Telemark tour continues into Melchsee-Frutt with Sprint and Parallel Sprint World Cups in the coming week.

Musgrave continues to impress in Les Rousses

The evergreen Andrew Musgrave continued his impressive form with an 11th place finish at the Les Rousses 10km F World Cup race this weekend, alongside 31st spot in the 20km C Mass Start. The result gives the 34-year-old his sixth top-20 finish of the season as well as his best ever result in Les Rousses, improving on the 17th place he secured at the same event in 2023.

And the rest…

The Pyha Para Snowboard World Cup saw heavy disruption after overnight rain ahead of the first day of competition saw the opening World Cup of the weekend cancelled due to dangerous conditions. In the second scheduled set of races, James Barnes-Miller was pick of the bunch with an eighth place finish.

Victoria Palla continued her Alpine Slalom World Cup progress with another outing in Flachau, but was unable to complete the first run, while in Ski Cross Ollie Davies managed 41st in the first World Cup’s qualification run followed by a DSQ in the second.

Header Image: Kristina Lubyova/GB Snowsport

Jaz Taylor maintained a 100% podium record in the third Telemark World Cup of the season

Defending Telemark Crystal Globe holder, Jaz Taylor, banked her third World Cup podium and second victory of the season at yesterday’s Carezza Sprint World Cup race.

Having taking first and third places in the season’s opening two Sprint World Cups in Pinzolo before Christmas, Taylor’s rich vein of form continued in Carezza as she saw off Laly Chaucheprat of France and the Norwegian Goril Strom Eriksen by a margin of 3.54 and 3.66 seconds respectively.

Taylor’s latest finish means she has podiumed in fourteen of her last fifteen Sprint World Cup races, dating back to February 2023, with her only non-podium finish in that time coming with a fourth place result in Al in February of last year.

The result puts Taylor in a strong position as she fights to defend the dual Crystal Globes that she picked up in 2023/24, with one more Sprint World Cup race in Carezza today before the Telemark tour moves on to the Swiss resort of Melchsee-Frutt at the end of January with Sprint and Parallel Sprint races.

Pre-Christmas podium rush in excellent week for GBS athletes

Simpson and Poth take Gold in Courchevel

Neil Simpson and Rob Poth delivered a timely reminder of their class and racing capabilities at the Courchevel Para Alpine GS World Cup this week, securing Gold in the week’s second race, after a second run DNF when well positioned in the opening contest.

The result marks a first World Cup podium for Simpson since the 2022/23 season, having been absent from snow for the majority of the 2023/24 season, and provides a meaningful springboard back into elite competition as the clock ticks towards the Milan-Cortina Paralympic Winter Games, where he will be due to defend the Super-G title won alongside his brother, Andrew, in Beijing.

Atkin strikes Silver in Copper

Zoe Atkin delivered her finest performance of the season so far, and one of the best demonstrations of the richness of her talent as a Halfpipe skier, with a Silver medal winning show at the Copper Mountain Halfpipe World Cup.

Having finished outside of the podium positions in Cardrona and Secret Garden Atkin soared to her fourth World Cup podium of the calendar year in a brilliant contest that saw the Brit battling it out with China’s Eileen Gu and Cassie Sharpe of Canada in a contest which saw the rankings determined on the third and final run.

In the end, Atkin’s score of 89.75 was enough to hold off Sharpe, who secured third with an 89.00, and sat only marginally behind Gu whose first round score of 90.50 took the honours on the day.

In the Men’s Freeski contest, Liam Richards impressed again with a 16th place finish, while in Freestyle Snowboard, Siddhartha Ullah took the best result coming 23rd, with Aaron Wild and Gidget Holden also representing Britain in the men’s and women’s competitions respectively.

Taylor doubles up in Telemark Sprint opener

Jaz Taylor‘s reign as Telemark Crystal Globe holder got off to a strong start at the Pinzolo Sprint World Cup opening races, taking Gold and Bronze across the week’s two races.

At the venue which marked the springboard towards her overall title glory last season, Taylor’s racing instinct and technical strength was on clear display amid challenging conditions, with weather rapidly setting in.

The results leave Taylor top of the nascent Overall World Cup standings with two races completed, ahead of Bjoernstad Konow of Norway, and France’s Augustine Carliez and Argeline Tan who share third spot.

Elsewhere, Jamie Dykes, Josh Wisbey, Hamish Ross, and Matthew Deane all competed in the Men’s Sprint races, with Dykes’ second race 25th place the pick of the performances.

Ski Cross team impress in Arosa and Innichen

Ollie Davies and Scott Johns delivered impressive showings in Arosa and Innichen, with Davies landing two top-10 finishes, and Johns the highest World Cup finish of his career to date.

For Davies, the pick of the races was the first Innichen World Cup, which saw him take victory in the Small Final, securing fifth place and the second best World Cup finish of his career, behind his Reiteralm Silver medal in 2023. The Arosa World Cup, meanwhile, saw him clinch tenth spot and an at-the-time sixth top-10 World Cup finish, marking a promising return from the season’s early races.

Johns, meanwhile, in his first season of full-time World Cup racing managed a career-first top-30 finish and the first FIS World Cup points of his career with an excellent performance in Arosa, highlighting the 21-year-old’s excellent potential in only his sixth World Cup race.

Ryding lands yet another top-10 in Alta Badia

Dave Ryding continued to fly the flag for British Alpine skiing with a powerful top-10 finish in the Alta Badia Slalom. His eighth place finish, 2.04s behind race winner Timon Haugan, marked a third consecutive top-10 performance for the 38-year-old, putting him only one top-10 finish behind his overall record from last season with the majority of the race calendar still to come.

Fellow Brits Laurie Taylor and Billy Major took 32nd and 36th spots respectively, each narrowly missing out on a second run in the final pre-Christmas Slalom races.

Jeannesson 15th in Bakuriani

Mateo Jeannesson landed an impressive fifteenth place finish at the Bakuriani Dual Moguls World Cup, following up a 26th place finish in the individual Moguls the previous day.

Another superb day of British skiing saw Jaz Taylor take bronze in Pinzolo before zoe Atkin seized silver in the US

Atkin takes first podium of season in Copper Mountain Halfpipe

Zoe Atkin secured her first podium of the season with one of her best ever displays of Halfpipe skiing, taking Silver at tonight’s Copper Mountain World Cup.

In a hotly-contested battle, Atkin improved on each run and landed a monster 89.75 on her third run to take Silver behind Eileen Gu, who led from the front with a 90.50 in the first run. Heading into the final run, Atkin had trailed Cassie Sharpe of Canada, whose second run 89.00 had pushed the Brit down into third spot, before a super clean third run catapulted Atkin back into second, less than a point from the Gold medal position.

Speaking afterwards, Zoe said:

“I’m super hyped to put down a solid run and be back on the podium after a tough event in China. Feeling excited and motivated to keep pushing as I move forward with the next few comps.”

Joe Schuster, Freeski Halfpipe Coach, said:

“Zoe’s been training super hard lately and I couldn’t be more proud to see her back on the podium where she belongs.”

Taylor goes back-to-back podiums in Pinzolo

Jaz Taylor followed up her Gold medal winning performance in Pinzolo with a third place finish at the second of the weekend’s Telemark Sprint World Cups in Pinzolo.

The result, which saw Taylor finish behind Kaja Bjoernstad Konow of Norway and France’s Argeline Tan Bouquet in first and second respectively, continues the Telemark Crystal Globe holder’s remarkable podium record at Pinzolo, which now stands at four in four races. It also takes Taylor to 13 World Cup podiums since the beginning of last season.

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