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.
Second victory of 2025/26 season comes in Parallel Sprint World Cup
Jaz Taylor recorded her second World Cup victory and third podium of the 2025/26 season with a vintage Parallel Sprint performance in the Swiss resort of Melchsee-Frutt today.
Having qualified in second spot, Taylor displayed her trademark speed, technical discipline, and race acumen to beat out the competition and secure victory ahead of the French 2-3 pairing Camille Bourbon and Laly Chaucheprat.
The win marks a sixth career Parallel Slalom World Cup victory for 32-year-old Taylor and her second in Melchsee-Frutt, having also taken victory on the same course almost exactly a year ago to the day.
Taylor, the reigning overall Telemark Crystal Globe holder, now sits second in the overall rankings after six World Cup contests this season, which have yielded three podiums.
A jam-packed week saw success across multiple disciplines for GB Snowsport athletes
Neil Simpson goes four-from-four in Para Alpine
Neil Simpson delivered a series of standout performances at the Saalbach Para Alpine World Cup, taking four podiums from four races across Downhill and Super-G disciplines. A pair of DH bronze medals, guided by Andrew Simpson and by Rob Poth, and Super-G silver and bronze with Poth and Simpson respectively guiding made it a blue ribbon week for a discipline steeped in British Paralympic heritage.
Bankes’ brilliance to the fore in Snowboard Cross
Charlotte Bankes showed her world class standing in back-to-back World Cups in Dongbeiya, China, taking gold and bronze on consecutive days. A dominant performance in the weekend’s first race saw Bankes top the standings in qualifiers, quarters, semis, and finals, while the second day’s competition saw her grab bronze in a tightly-contested final races.
On the men’s side, Huw Nightingale continued to show his ability to mix it with the best in the world coming 17th in the weekend’s first contest after qualifying in 14th, while in the second of the weekend’s races, Max Vardy progressed to the knockout stages for the first time before finishing in 20th place.
Barnes-Miller bags silver in Kuehtai Para Snowboard World Cup
James Barnes-Miller grabbed a sensational silver medal in the Kuehtai Para Snowboard Banked Slalom World Cup alongside a seventh place finish in a typically competitive Men’s UL field. Barnes-Miller’s podium, his first of the World Cup season, came amid a week of strong Para Snowboard performances across the board, with Ollie Hill also taking a top-five finish, Nina Sparks twice finishing inside the top-ten, and Davy Zyw taking a brace of Europa Cup podiums with a silver and a bronze.
Taylor takes Telemark silver
Jaz Taylor‘s podium successes continued with a silver medal winning performance in the first of back-to-back Carezza World Cup races, and giving her a second podium of the season following her Sprint World Cup win in Pinzolo in December.
And the rest…
The Men’s Slalom team faced down battling conditions in the Lauberhorn slope in Wengen, with Luca Carrick-Smith the pick of the bunch, finishing 34th after the first run in a personal best World Cup showing. Billy Major and Laurie Taylor came in 41st and 42nd on the first run respectively, while Dave Ryding was a first run DNF with a straddle.
The Women’s night Slalom in Flachau saw Vici Palla record a first run DNF.
In Cross-Country, James Clugnet delivered the weekend’s best showing, finishing 32nd in Sprint Free qualifying to narrowly miss out on Finals, while in Moguls Makayla Gerken Schofield finished 26th in the individual women’s event in a race week impacted by poor weather conditions.
Simpson seals second consecutive Downhill World Cup in Saalbach
Neil Simpson continued his impressive start to the season by claiming his second World Cup podium in two days, taking third in the men’s Downhill Para-Alpine (Vision Impaired) event in Saalbach Austria, guided by Rob Poth.
The result marks Simpson’s second career World Cup Downhill Podium on only his fourth elite level Downhill race and Rob Poth’s debut Downhill race as Simpson’s guide. Today’s performance follows Simpson’s third place finish from yesterday’s race, which was achieved alongside long-term guide Andrew Simpson, as the team further develops its preparations for the Milan-Cortina Paralympic Winter Games.
Simpson clocked a time of 56.28 seconds securing the second of his back-to-back podiums in Downhill, finishing just 2.29 second behind Austria’s Johannes Aigner, who took the victory and Italy’s Giacomo Bertagnolli, who finished second.
Taylor takes second World Cup podium of season with Sprint Silver in Carezza World Cup
In the Telemark World Cup in Carezza, Italy, Jaz Taylor took Silver in the women’s Sprint event, claiming her second podium of the season in the process.
Taylor posted a combined time of 2:16.62 seconds across the two runs, finishing just 1.11secs behind the winner, Lea Lathion. With a particularly fast leading first run, putting her firmly in contention for the podium spots, Taylor was able to back the performance up with a composed second run to seal her place on the podium.
GBS athletes add sixth and seventh podiums in final pre-Christmas competitions
Atkin takes gold, Kenworthy and Richards impress in Copper
Zoe Atkin delivered another standout performance for her second career victory in Copper Mountain, while Gus Kenworthy and Liam Richards both impressed in an enthralling pair of Freeski Halfpipe World Cup contests in the US resort.
Atkin, the reigning Halfpipe World Champion, was in imperious form, leading all the way through qualification and Finals to seal victory, while a dramatic men’s Finals saw Kenworthy finish fourth and only marginally off the podium, with Richards finishing in ninth spot to take a first career World Cup top-10 berth.
Taylor takes first World Cup victory of 25/26 season in Pinzolo
Jaz Taylor‘s continued run of success on the Telemark World Cup tour saw her add a first World Cup podium of the season with victory in the second of the weekend’s double-header Sprint World Cup races in Pinzolo. Taylor, who boasts back-to-back overall Crystal Globes, had already recorded a battling fourth-place finish in the first of the weekend’s races before coming through victorious in an incredibly tight contest to stand on the top of the podium for the seventh time since the beginning of the 2024/25 season.
Davies pick of the bunch in hectic Ski Cross season
Ollie Davies was the standout performer for British Ski Cross World Cup entrants over a three-race week in Arosa and Innichen, taking 12th spot in the Arosa World Cup and 31st in the second of the Innichen meets. Scott Johns finished just outside the top-30 with a strong 34th place showing in Arosa, while Tommy Dade and Andrew Wilson made overall and British World Cup debuts across the week, with Dade 59th in Arosa and Wilson 48th and 44th in Innichen.
Two in the top-20 in Alta Badia Slalom
Dave Ryding and Laurie Taylor rounded out their pre-Christmas racing with top-20 finishes in the Alta Badia Slalom World Cup, while Billy Major was unfortunate to finish just outside the top-30 after the first run despite a bout of illness in the build-up to the event.
15th for Ryding and 18th for Taylor marked decent results in a tricky race where the second run in particular threw up significant drama throughout, and caps an impressive first half of the season from the British Slalom team which has seen all three members of the Men’s Slalom World Cup team battling for the top spots on a regular basis.
And the rest…
Neil Simpson and Rob Poth were unfortunate to record a DNF when well-placed on their first Para Alpine World Cup race of the season in St. Moritz…
Aaron Wild, Siddhartha Ullah, and Sam Gaskin put up battling showings in the Copper Mountain Halfpipe Snowboard (Wild, Ullah) and Freeski (Gaskin) World Cups…
Luca Carrick-Smith‘s World Cup career continued with another start in Alta Badia, in a week in which brother Freddy recorded British history with a first ever Europa Cup GS victory for British Alpine racers…
GB Snowsport athletes take World Cup wins in Copper and Pinzolo
Zoe Atkin victorious in Copper Mountain Halfpipe
Zoe Atkin followed up a second place finish in last week’s Secret Garden Halfpipe World Cup with victory in Copper Mountain this evening.
The reining Halfpipe World Champion was on dominant form throughout, qualifying in top spot, and then soaring to the top of the standings after the first run of the final with a score of 89.25 which proved insurmountable for the rest of the field.
The 22-year-old now boasts four World Cup podiums in the US resort, with today’s win marking her second Copper Mountain victory, having also been the site of her first ever World Cup win back in December 2019.
Atkin’s final score gave her a victory margin of 9.25 points over her nearest competitor, Australia’s Indra Brown, while Kexin Zhang of China finished in third 11.75 points back from Atkin.
Jaz Taylor takes Gold in Pinzolo Sprint World Cup
32-year-old Jaz Taylor landed her first World Cup podium of the season with victory in the second of athedouble-header Pinzolo Sprint World Cup meet.
Having landed back-to-back fourth place finishes to start the World Cup season, Taylor, the reigning Crystal Globe holder, came out on top in an incredibly tight race which saw the top-3 separated by less than a second.
Taylor’s winning time of 2:22.54 saw her come in 0.64s ahead of France’s Laly Chaucheprat, while Goril Strom Eriksen of Norway rounded out the podium just 0.09s further behind.
The result continues a proud track record for Taylor in World Cup meets in Pinzolo, with the Briton now boasting four World Cup victories in the Italian resort over the six races across the past three seasons.
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.