Britain’s superb 2025 continued with World Cup, World championships, and Junior world Championships successes

Bankes’ brilliance returns fifth World Cup gold of season

Charlotte Bankes demonstrated the skill and resilience that makes her one of Britain’s greatest contemporary athletes with a fifth World Cup victory of the season in the second of the weekend’s two World Cup races in Gudauri, Georgia.

A shock qualification stage elimination in the first of the weekend’s races was put swiftly in the rear-view mirror as Bankes showed her trademark dominance to come through the second of the weekend’s double header contests in first place, giving her a commanding lead in the overall standings in the process.

In the Men’s competitions, Huw Nightingale delivered one of his best performances of the season to finish in the top-30 for the third time this season, taking 28th place following a 1/8th final stage exit.

Cross-Country team secure three top-10 World Championships finishes

The Trondheim Cross-Country World Championships drew to a close at the weekend with Britain delivering a raft of memorable results, including three top-10 finishes across the Championships.

Andrew Musgrave secured the best result of the competition, with sixth place in the 50k Free providing a best British individual World Championships result since 2017. Elsewhere, a monumental effort in the Relay saw Musgrave, James Clugnet, Gabriel Gledhill, and Andrew Young take ninth place, while Joe Davies was in excellent form in the Skiathlon on his way to a 24th place finish.

Read our dedicated Cross-Country World Championships round-up here.

Alpine next generation make history in Tarvisio

The next generation of British Alpine skiers showed superb form in the Tarvisio World Junior Championships, as the team demonstrated why there’s so much excitement building around the future of British Alpine skiing.

Leading the charge was Luca Carrick-Smith, whose bronze medal winning performance in the Men’s Slalom gave Britain its first Alpine World Junior Championships podium since Graham Bell took Downhill silver in 1984.

In the U18s category, Freddy Carrick-Smith secured U18 titles in Slalom and GS, the latter coming in a race which saw three Brits in the top-12 including Jack Irving whose fifth place finish had been the best British Alpine World Junior Championships result since Chemmy Alcott’s fourth place in 2002, prior to Luca’s podium on the final day’s racing.

Taylor dominates in Krvarvec

Jaz Taylor‘s incredible run of form continued in the Slovenian resort of Krvarvec, as she returned a silver and two gold medals from two Sprint events and one Classic race, extending her lead in the overall Telemark World Cup standings in the process.

Indeed, so remarkable is Taylor’s form that she currently stands atop the Overall, Sprint, and Classic leaderboards with a remarkable ten World Cup podiums with fourteen of the season’s twenty World Cup competitions completed.

Meenagh fourth in Para Biathlon World Cup

Scott Meenagh finished just outside of the podium places at the Torsby Para Biathlon World Cup, coming fourth in the 12.5km Individual races over the weekend.

The result adds to an encouraging body of work for Meenagh in Para Biathlon this season, which has seen him edging ever closer to the podium with strong skiing and excellent shooting execution.

Carpenter into top 10 in Alpine Snowboard World junior Championships

Sam Carpenter showed his rich promise in at the Alpine Snowboard World Junior Championships with a seventh place finish in the Parallel Slalom in Zakopane/Suche.

The result comes in 18-year-old Carpenter’s fourth appearance at a World Junior Championships, and marks his best result at that level, coming hot on the heels of a breakthrough FIS level victory in Val Saint Come last month.