
Kirsty Muir topped the podium, Billy Major climbed into the top-10, Maisie Hill landed a career best World Cup result, and Mia Brookes took the overall Globe in another superb week for Brits on snow
Muir breaks new ground in Tignes
Kirsty Muir‘s comeback from injury went into overdrive at the Tignes Freeski Big Air and Slopestyle World Cup, with two Finals appearances culminating in a career first World Cup victory in Slopestyle.
Following a serious knee injury sustained in December 2023, Muir spent more than 14 months out of action before making an encouraging return at the Aspen World Cup in February, immediately returning to the top-10 with an eighth place finish in the Slopestyle contest. Following another top-10 in Stoneham in late February, Muir landed another in the Tignes Big Air competition, finishing seventh, before raising her game to new levels to finish top of the standings in the Slopestyle event.
Elsewhere in Tignes, the best British performance came from Chris McCormick with 25th place in the Men’s Slopestyle, with James Pouch also notching a top-30 finish, coming 29th in Big Air.
Mia Brookes misses Flachau, wins Crystal Globe, while Maisie Hill secures career best finish
Mia Brookes put the seal on a stunning World Cup season by taking the Overall Snowboard Park & Pipe Crystal Globe, despite missing out on the Flachau Slopestyle World Cup.
Brookes was one of a number of athletes who elected to sit out the season closing World Cup competition, which saw the Men’s competition abandoned due to declining conditions across the week, but with final results taken from qualification runs, Brookes nevertheless ended up clear at the top of the Crystal Globe standings, taking her first Overall title and her second Globe of the season following confirmation of the Big Air crown earlier in the season.
Maisie Hill, meanwhile, performed superbly to finish in fifth place off the back of a superb qualifying round which had put her into third spot in her heat, a result that gives the 24-year-old her best ever World Cup finish just a year on from her return from career-threatening injury.
Billy Major breaks top-10 with excellent performance in Hafjell
Billy Major‘s Slalom World Cup season drew to a close with a best-ever World Cup finish, finishing ninth in Hafjell.
Sitting 14th at the turn, Billy delivered the sixth fastest second run in the field to propel him into the top 10 of a World Cup for the first time in his career and put a proud finish to another excellent season for Britain’s Men’s Slalom World Cup team.
Dave Ryding took a ninth World Cup top 20 of the season with seventeenth spot, while Laurie Taylor recorded a first run DNF in a nevertheless excellent season.
Meenagh podiums in Torsby to end Para Biathlon season in top-3
Scott Meenagh notched his first Para Biathlon World Cup podium of the season in the final World Cup race of 2024/25, finishing third in the Torsby Sprint World Cup.
The result, which comes off the back of a season of remarkable consistency from Meenagh, helped propel him into the top-3 of the overall standings, and delivered a richly deserved podium moment for one of Britain’s most trailblazing para snowsport starts.
And the rest…
The Moguls World Cup season drew to a close with World Cup Finals in Livigno, taking place on the course scheduled to host the event at next year’s Olympic Winter Games. Mateo Jeannesson finished 19th in Dual Moguls and 29th in Individual Moguls, while Makayla Gerken Schofield finished 15th and 22nd in Duals and Individuals respectively.
The Cross-Country squad followed up their successful World Championships campaign with a return to the World Cup tour in Oslo, Andrew Young taking the team’s best result with a 32nd place finish in the 10km F.