Results Round-Up: Podiums plundered on golden weekend

World Cup podiums in China and the US lit up a sparkling weekend

Bankes’ brilliance lights up Beidahu

Charlotte Bankes’ customary brilliance was on full display in Beidahu as the second leg of the Snowboard Cross World Cup circuit yielded a brace of victories for the 29-year-old Brit.

After a fourth place finish in the season’s first World Cup meet, Bankes was on imperious form throughout the weekend’s racing, finishing first in her Quarter, Semi, and Big Final races on both days to give her a commanding lead in the overall season standings.

The results gave Bankes her 22nd and 23rd career World Cup victories, and further stated her case to be recognised as one of the pre-eminent British athletes of her generation.

In the men’s competitions, Huw Nightingale continues to show good progress, finishing inside the top-30 in 28th and 21st place across the two days’ racing, the latter representing his second best career World Cup finish to date.

Atkin and Brookes take Gold and Bronze in Aspen

Aspen proved a fruitful hunting ground for British Park & Pipe athletes once again, with Zoe Atkin securing a brilliant Gold in the Freeski Halfpipe World Cup, and Mia Brookes demonstrating her ability to consistently take podiums with Bronze in the Freestyle Snowboard Slopestyle.

For Brookes, her latest podium marked a third in Slopestyle for the current season in addition to the three Big Air podiums already to her name, with the Aspen Big Air World Cup to follow this week.

Atkin’s victory, meanwhile, gave her a second career World Cup win and a second podium of the season, having previously taken silver at Copper Mountain in December.

In the Women’s Freeski Slopestyle contest, Kirsty Muir marked a remarkable return from a serious knee injury by making Finals in her first competition back on snow for a year, the 20-year-old qualifying in sixth spot, before finishing eighth in Finals as she made an assured return to the competitive scene.

Elsewhere in Aspen there were top-30 finishes for Chris McCormick (Freeski Slopestyle – 27th), Txema Mazet-Brown (Freestyle Snowboard Slopestyle – 26th), Liam Richards (Freeski Halfpipe – 24th), and Siddhartha Ullah (Freestyle Snowboard Halfpipe – 30th).

Meenagh Fourth in Para Biathlon Sprint World Cup

Scott Meenagh took his best result of the season so far with an excellent fourth place in the Val di Fiemme Para Biathlon World Cup Sprint, a result made even more remarkable for coming in Meenagh’s least favoured discipline.

The competition, which comes just before the Para Biathlon World Championships, marks an important step in Meenagh’s preparations for an event which saw him take Britain’s first ever Para Biathlon World Championships medal with silver in the 2023 edition.

Jeannesson and Gerken Schofield impress in Val st come Moguls

Makayla Gerken Schofield‘s return from injury yieleded a first top-10 finish since March 2024 with tenth place in the Val St Come Moguls World Cup, followed by 12th in the Dual Moguls competition. Having not skied competitively for almost a year between March and January, Gerken Schofield’s return has delivered four successive top-20 finishes to reaffirm their position as one of Britain’s most talented Mogul skiers of this generation.

Mateo Jeannesson meanwhile secured a first top-10 of the season with eighth place in the Dual Moguls, having come 30th in the previous day’s individual Moguls competition.