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Mia Brookes secures back-to-back Big Air Crystal Globes

18-year-old defends Big Air title in spectacular season

Mia Brookes’ list of career accomplishment received a new entry last night as she secured the 2024/25 Snowboard Big Air Crystal Globe, becoming the first back-to-back winner of the Women’s Big Air title since Reira Iwabuchi took consecutive titles in the 2018/19 and 2019/20 seasons.

In a repeat of last year’s top-3, Brookes topped the overall standings ahead of Japanese riders Mari Fukada in second and Reira Iwabuchi in third. With Brookes and Fukada both earning 305 points over the season, it was the Brit’s two World Cup victories in Beijing and Klagenfurt which gave her the edge over Fukada, whose sole victory of the season came in Chur in October.

Mia’s victory was confirmed at the Aspen Big Air World Cup, where she and the coaching team made a late decision to withdraw from the contest in order to provide additional rest time ahead of an intense schedule building up to the World Championships in March, where she will attempt to defend the Slopestyle World Championship title she won as a 16-year-old in 2023.

Speaking afterwards, Mia said:

“I thought maybe I’d finish second this season if I was lucky, but definitely not a win. It’s really special when you’ve worked so hard over the season.”

Ben Kinnear, Freestyle Snowboard Head Coach, said:

“Retaining the Crystal Globe in such a competitive era of women’s snowboarding is testament to Mia’s hard work. Mia’s pre season trick learning, meant she could put those tricks into competition so consistently in some of the most progressive snowboard events to date, winning back to back Big Airs in Beijing & Klagenfurt.“