Ski and Snowboard Cross World Cup squads confirmed for 2025/26 season

Bankes and Nightingale, and Davies and Johns named in Snowboard and Ski Cross WC squads

Ollie Davies and Scott Johns, and Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale have been selected to the GB Snowsport’s Ski and Snowboard Cross World Cup squads for the 2025/26 season, with seven athletes selected to Europa Cup squads across the two disciplines.

The selection process sees Scott Johns named to the Ski cross World Cup squad for the first time, two seasons on from his World Cup debut. The 22-year-old achieved top 30 placings three times on last season’s World Cup circuit, in Arosa, Val di Fassa, and Gudauri.

Ollie Davies, meanwhile, will be bidding to secure a spot at Olympic Winter Games for the second time in his career, having made his Olympic debut in Beijing in 2022. Davies notched a pair of top 10 finishes in Arosa and Innichen in the 2024/25 season, with fifth place in the latter competition marking the second-best World Cup result of his career to date.

In Snowboard Cross, Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale will be looking to build on another successful campaign which saw Bankes secure five World Cup victories along with second place at World Championships, and Nightingale a career-best World Cup finish of 11^th place in Mt. St. Anne, alongside a top 10 finish at World Championships. In the Team event, the pair also recorded their second ever World Cup podium with second place in the Erzurum World Cup in March 2025.

Both disciplines will also field Europa Cup squad athletes this season, with Max Vardy named to the Snowboard Cross EC squad, and Greg Baillie, Tommy Dade, Faith Davie, Emily Keen, Alannah Lawrie, and Andrew Wilson selected for Ski Cross.

GB Snowsport Performance Director, Kearnan Myall, said:

“Congratulations to each of our Ski and Snowboard Cross athletes on being selected to World Cup and Europa Cup squads for the coming season.

“The Cross disciplines have shown real strength over recent years, and our athletes have every chance of making the coming season a memorable one for British skiing and snowboarding.

“Athletes across both disciplines have worked exceptionally hard over the off-season period to put themselves in the best possible position to achieve success over the coming year, and we look forward to seeing that work translate into performances when the season gets underway.”

The Ski Cross World Cup season gets underway in Val Thorens on 9-11 December, with the first Snowboard Cross races in Cervinia on 19-21 December.