The GB Alpine Championships Children’s Week in association with Crystal Holidays saw the slopes of Tignes taken over by a festival of youth Alpine action

Britain’s ski fans got a glimpse of the country’s Alpine future this week as the GB Alpine Championships Children’s Week in association with Crystal Holidays saw dozens of young British skiers take to the slopes of Tignes.

Across four days of competition, eighteen different skiers topped the 24 podiums available with Sylvia Curtis (U10 Girls Kombi, U10 Girls Giant Slalom), Tia Freshwater (U14 Girls Giant Slalom, U14 Girls Super-G), Hamish Blyth (U14 Boys Giant Slalom, U14 Boys Super-G, U14 Boys Slalom), Darcy Davies (U12 Girls Giant Slalom, U12 Girls Slalom), and Zak Carrick-Smith (U16 Boys Giant Slalom, U16 Boys Super-G) each taking multiple victories across the week.

Returning after a two-year covid-enforced absence, the GB Alpine Championships Children’s Week saw a dedicated team of race organisers deliver a full race programme for around 100 U10/U12 and approximately 200 U14/U16 athletes, with strong support from academies and parents adding to the atmosphere across the week. U14 and U16 podiums each saw monetary prizes courtesy of Children’s Week sponsors Crystal Holidays, with presentations made by a range of industry figures including President of Ski Club of Great Britain, four-time Winter Olympian and Ski Sunday presenter, Chemmy Alcott.

As with the Senior Championships, the competitors during the Children’s Week faced a range of slope conditions offering technical and race management challenges which will prove invaluable in their continued development on the Alpine racing circuit.

Among those to take podium places were fourteen skiers previously named in the British Children’s Ski Team for the 2021/22 season, with Harry Black (U16 Boys Slalom – 3^rd place), William Freear (U16 Boys Super-G, U16 Boys Slalom – 2^nd place), Emerson Proctor (U16 Boys Giant Slalom, U16 Boys Super-G – 3^rd place), Maisie Blyth (U16 Girls Slalom – 1^st place, U16 Girls Super-G – 2^nd place), Olivia Howeson (U16 Girls Super-G, U16 Girls Slalom – 3^rd place), Hannah Skinner (U16 Girls Super-G, 1^st place), Emily Turner (U16 Girls Giant Slalom – 3^rd place), Hamish Blyth (U14 Boys Giant Slalom, U14 Boys Super-G, U14 Boys Slalom – 1^st Place), Freddy Carrick-Smith (U16 Boys Slalom – 1^st place), Zak Carrick-Smith (U16 Boys Giant Slalom, U16 Boys Super G – 1^st place), Molly Butler (U16 Girls Giant Slalom – 1^st place), Ryan Faber (U14 Boys Giant Slalom – 3^rd place), Tia Freshwater (U14 Girls Giant Slalom, U14 Girls Super-G – 1^st place, U14 Girls Slalom – 2^nd place), and Isabelle Sullivan (U14 Girls Giant Slalom – 3^rd place, U14 Girls Slalom – 1^st place) all featuring across the week.

The full list of race podiums from the week was confimed as:

Kombi:

U12 Girls

• Holly Klotz
• Evienne Arnold
• Audrey Curtis

U12 Boys

• Leo Gosling
• Jasper Freshwater
• Sebastien Anthony

U10 Girls

• Sylvia Curtis
• Cecilia Hamer
• Jolie Welsh

U10 Boys

• Samuel Greenland
• Cillean Morrison
• Felix Gladman

Giant Slalom

U16 Girls

• Molly Butler
• India Ridgway
• Emily Turner

U16 Boys

• Zak Carrick-Smith
• Fredy Carrick-Smith
• Emerson Proctor

U14 Girls

• Tia Freshwater
• Madison Gilson
• Isabella Sullivan

U14 Boys

• Hamish Blyth
• Matthew Butler
• Ryan Faber

U12 Girls

• Darcy Davies
• Lily Flitton
• Sophia Fielding

U12 Boys

• Sebastien Anthony
• Rufus Wontner
• Xavier Pointon

U10 Girls

• Sylvia Curtis
• Christina Dagne
• Cecilia Hamer

U10 Boys

• Jackson Schniewind
• Lucas Cox
• Samuel Greenland

Super-G

U16 Girls

• Hannah Skinner
• Maisie Blyth
• Olivia Howeson

U16 Boys

• Zak Carrick-Smith
• William Freear
• Emerson Proctor

U14 Girls

• Tia Freshwater
• Brooke Baxter
• Alice Beveridge

U14 Boys

• Hamish Blyth
• Oscar Flight
• Benjamin Wontner

Slalom

U16 Girls

• Maisie Blyth
• Emily Owen
• Olivia Howeson

U16 Boys

• Freddy Carrick-Smith
• William Freear
• Harry Black

U14 Girls

• Brooke Baxter
• Amelia Pietrzak
• Isabella Sullivan

U14 Boys

• Hamish Blyth
• Oscar Flight
• Matthew Butler

U12 Girls

• Darcy Davies
• Lily Flitton
• Evienne Arnold

U12 Boys

• Xavier Poynton
• Leo Gosling
• Toby Tweedle

U10 Girls

• Cecilia Hamer
• Christina Dagne
• Sylvia Curtis

U10 Boys

• Lucas Cox
• Samuel Greenland
• Leonardo Cross