Results Round-Up: Brits take X Games 2026 by storm

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.