
Mia Brookes and Jaz Taylor continued their podium crusades, while there were strong performances across Europe for British athletes
X Games ends with double podiums for Mia Brookes
The 2025 Winter X Games ended with two Mia Brookes medals in Slopestyle and the non-Olympic Knuckle Huck discipline, as well as an excellent fourth place in Big Air.
Coming into the Slopestyle competition as defending champion, Brookes looked set for a medal from the outset with her usual style and dynamism on full show, landing her a blistering 94.00 in her first playoff run to qualify for Finals in top spot. What followed was possibly the highest quality Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle contest in X Games history, as Brookes, Kokomo Murase, and Zoi Sadowski-Synnott each delivered sensational runs to blow the competition wide open. In the final reckoning, Brookes’ 88.33 was enough to comfortably secure bronze, with Murase taking silver with a second run 90.33, and Sadowski-Synnott landing a run for the ages for 94.66.
Later in the day, Brookes’ X Games Knuckle Huck debut yielded an excellent silver medal, coming in second behind Murase and ahead of Lily Dhawornvej of the US who took the bronze medal slot. In three visits to X Games, Brookes now boasts three medals and two fourth-place finishes, marking her out as one of the competition’s most reliably competitive athletes.
Elsewhere, Zoe Atkin fell just short of a third X Games medal of her won in the Freeski Superpipe, coming fourth in a highly competitive Final won by Cassie Sharpe. Atkin’s qualification score of 89.00 had been enough for a second place finish during Playoffs, and would have secured Gold in the Finals, but in a high grade Final, could only muster a 68.00 to leave her in fourth place.
Ryding and Taylor share 16th in Kitzbuehel
The legendary Kitzbuehel Slalom, won so memorably by Dave Ryding in 2021, yielded dual 16th place finishes for Ryding and Laurie Taylor amid a rainy 2025 edition. In imperfect conditions, Ryding and Taylor each navigated two challenging runs to give Britain another brace of top-20 finishes in a season marked by impressive consistency from the British Men’s Alpine team.
The result continues Ryding’s streak of top-20 finishes on the iconic Austrian course, which now stretches to an increadible eight consecutive seasons since a second run DNF in 2016, while for Taylor it marks a best ever result Kitzbuehel result, bettering his 19th place finish last year.
Earlier, the team came close to a three-man second run contingent, with only a sector two error preventing Billy Major from breaking into the top-30, while in the earlier Super G races, Roy-Alexander Steudle‘s first World Cup of the season finished agonisingly close to the top-30 with only a late error forcing him into 36th spot, the result marking a storming return from injury for the experienced Speed skier, and Britain’s best Men’s World Cup SG result since Finley Mickel took 33rd in Gardena/Groeden in 2006.
Taylor first and fifth in Melchsee-Frutt
Jaz Taylor maintained her grip on the Overall Telemark World Cup leaderboard with first and fifth place finishes at the back-to-back Melchsee-Frutt Parallel Sprint World Cup races.
A barnstorming display of head-to-head racing in the week’s first race saw Taylor comfortably hold off Argeline Tan Bouquet to secure her third World Cup victory and fifth podium of the 2025 season, before the weekend’s second race saw her off the podium for the first time in nine races, as Strom Goril Eriksen came through for victory, again ahead of Tan Bouquet of France.
Taylor’s overall standings lead now sits at 60 points with 485, with Tan Bouquet sitting second on 425, and Augustine Carliez in third on 355.
Gerken Schofield makes Moguls return in impressive Waterville showing
Makayla Gerken Schofield‘s return from injury saw the Beijing 2022 Olympian deliver a pair of hugely impressive performances to take 14th in Dual Moguls and 16th in the single event, having not skied competitively since March following a knee injury sustained during the summer. The results mark the 37th and 38th top-20 World Cup finishes of Gerken Schofield’s career, and confirms their continued ability to mix it with the best in the sport, even after almost a year on the sidelines.
Elsewhere, Will Feneley also made his comeback from injury almost two years on from his last World Cup appearance, while Mateo Jeannesson‘s 23rd and 19th in Dual and Single Moguls showed impressive consistency from the Junior World Champion. Cali Carr, meanwhile, took 31st in the single event.
Musgrave 14th in Engadin
Andrew Musgrave notched another top-20 World Cup finish at the Engadin 20km F Mass Start Cross Country race this weekend, finishing in 14th spot. His time of 53:39.3 put him less than 10s outside of the top-10 in a race dominated by the Norwegian and French teams, who secured nine of the top-10 spots. Teammate James Clugnet finished in 55th spot having taken 34th place in the Sprint Free races the previous day.
More weather impacts curtail Para Snowboard Lenk World Cup
The Lenk Para Snowboard Cross World Cup races saw a curtailed race programme after poor weather locally left the course out of action in the first day of competition, but recovered sufficiently to permit racing in the competition’s second day of action. Ollie Hill was the pick of the British competitors, taking eighth spot in the Men’s Lower Limb 2 category.