Team GB’s Zoe Atkin Wins Copper Mountain World Cup

by admin in RSS Social News. Posted December 21, 2025

Reigning Freeski Halfpipe World Champion, Britain’s Zoe Atkin, upped the ante in Copper Mountain to win her third career World Cup on Saturday.

Twenty-two-year-old Atkin took an early lead in the women’s final on Saturday with a first-run score of 89.25 – more than nine points clear of her closest rival and runner-up Indra Brown (AUS) on 80.00.

Fifteen-year-old Brown fell heavily in the middle of her second run but was able to hold onto her second-place position as the rest of the field struggled with tricky pipe conditions and low light. China’s Zhang Kexin finished third on 77.50, followed by teammate Liu Yishan in fourth place.

Atkin, who was the top qualifier for Saturday’s final, began her first run with her signature, boosted left 540 mute, followed by a right 720 tailgrab, a switch left 720 Japan, a right 540 leading tailgrab, a right alley-opp 360, before finishing her winning run off with a switch right 720 safety on the final hit.

Saturday’s results marks the second time Atkin has claimed victory in Copper after the British skier claimed her maiden World Cup win here in 2019.

“I was just thinking about this the other night. I was 16 years old when I won my first World Cup here, and to be able to come back six years later and stand on top of the podium again, in the Olympic season – it just means so much to me. I’m super stoked to be able to put it down today,” said Zoe.

Atkin topped the field on Saturday after she was runner-up behind reigning Olympic Freeski Halfpipe champion Eileen Gu (CHN) at the season opener in Secret Garden last week.

Last season the British skier shared the discipline’s Crystal Globe with China’s Li Fanghui, the first time in FIS Freeski history that two athletes shared the season trophy.

Atkin then went on to win gold at the Engadin 2025 FIS Freeski World Championships in March.

“I’m definitely bringing in a lot of confidence from the last season,” Zoe continued, adding, “I just recently became World Champion which was really exciting for me and I think this is the first time wearing the yellow bib, so I’m really excited to be World Cup leader. I’m just honestly having a lot of fun and feeling really confident.”