Muir and Bankes seal Crystal Globes on historic day for British Snowsport

Overall Freeski Park & Pipe Globe and SBX Globe add further glamour to sparkling season

Kirsty Muir and Charlotte Bankes both secured historic Crystal Globe honours on another history-making day for British ski and snowboard athletes.

In Silvaplana, Muir ended a weather-affected final Slopestyle World Cup of the season with silver and a fourth World Cup podium of the season to secure double Crystal Globe honours, taking both the Freeski Slopestyle and Freeski Overall Park & Pipe titles for the first time in her career.

A dominant figure across the World Cup season, Muir’s titles were built on Big Air World Cup gold in Secret Garden in November, followed by a brace of Slopestyle victories in Snowmass and Tignes, bookmarking an Olympic Winter Games campaign which saw the 21-year-old finish fourth in both of her events.

Silver in Silvaplana ensured she would finish 69 points clear of Canada’s Elena Gaskell in the Slopestyle standings, and with an insurmountable lead in the Overall standings, marking the first time the Scottish sensation has taken Crystal Globe honours.

For Bankes, Crystal Globe titles are no stranger, having lifted the SBX trophy in both 2022 and 2023. Her third career Globe came having begun the day’s racing in Mt St Anne at the top of the standings, before coming through for her fifth individual podium and third victory of the 2026 season, adding to Team SBX wins alongside Huw Nightingale in the Cervinia World Cup in December and, most famously, at the Olympic Winter Games last month.

Bankes’ victory cements her position as one of Britain’s finest ever snowsport athletes, and one of the greatest Snowboard Cross racers of all time with a scarcely credible thirty World Cup victories now to her name.

GB Snowsport Chief Executive Vicky Gosling said: “To see British athletes lifting three Crystal Globes on a single day is a remarkable achievement, and yet another milestone on the incredible journey we’ve been on as a winter sport nation over the past eight years.

“Kirsty and Charlotte deserve an extraordinary amount of praise for their performances across this season and across the past four years as a whole, as do their coaches, support staff, and the entire team around them.

“These results, coming off the back of Britain’s best ever Olympic Winter Games, show once again that British snowsport is in good hands, and promises more extraordinary accomplishments in the years to come.”

Head Coach Pat Sharples added: “I don’t think there could have been a better way for Charlotte and Kirsty to end their seasons than we’ve seen today, both taking away Crystal Globes. It shows their consistency against the best in the world right through this whole season.

“It’s absolutely fantastic, and we’re incredibly proud of both of them, as well as the whole wider GB Snowsport coaching and support team who’ve worked tirelessly through this whole winter. The entire team have done an incredible job, and to end the season on a high like this is just reward for all the hard work from everyone involved with GB Snowsport.”