Three World Cup Titles for GB Snowsport Athletes

Kirsty Muir ended a weather-affected final Slopestyle World Cup of the season with silver at Silvaplana in Switzerland.

It was her fourth World Cup podium of the season.

It secured her double Crystal Globe honours, as she took both the Freeski Slopestyle and Freeski Overall Park & Pipe titles.

GB’s freestyle skier Kirsty Muir had her maiden World Cup victory in 2025. Image © GB Snowsport.

Muir’s titles were built on Big Air World Cup gold in Secret Garden in November, followed by a brace of Slopestyle victories in Snowmass and Tignes.

At the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics in February the 21-year-old missed out on medals as she finished fourth in both of her events.

Silver in Silvaplana ensured she would finish 69 points clear of Canada’s Elena Gaskell in the Slopestyle standings.

It leaves her with an insurmountable lead in the Overall standings, marking the first time she has taken Crystal Globe honours.

Kirsty Muir competes in the Women’s Ski Slopestyle Final at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics. Image © Sam Mellish/Team GB

Charlotte Bankes took the SBX trophy and it followed her taking the title 2022 and 2023.

Her third career Crystal Globe came having begun the day’s racing in Mt St Anne in Canada at the top of the standings.

She took her fifth individual podium and third victory of the 2026 season.
It added to Team SBX wins alongside Huw Nightingale in the Cervinia World Cup in December and at the Milan-Cortina Olympic Winter Games last month when the pair took gold.

Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale, 2026 Olympic Champions in Mixed Team SBX. Image © Sam Mellish/Team GB

Bankes’ victory cements her position as one of Britain’s finest ever snowsport athletes, and one of the greatest Snowboard Cross racers of all time with 30 World Cup victories now to her name.

“To see British athletes lifting three Crystal Globes on a single day is a remarkable achievement, and yet another milestone on the incredible journey we’ve been on as a winter sport nation over the past eight years,” said the chief executive of GB Snowsport, Vicky Gosling.

“Kirsty and Charlotte deserve an extraordinary amount of praise for their performances across this season and across the past four years as a whole, as do their coaches, support staff, and the entire team around them.

“These results, coming off the back of Britain’s best ever Olympic Winter Games, show once again that British snowsport is in good hands, and promises more extraordinary accomplishments in the years to come.”

Vicky Gosling, CEO GB Snowsport. Image © PlanetSKI

“I don’t think there could have been a better way for Charlotte and Kirsty to end their seasons than we’ve seen today, both taking away Crystal Globes,” said GB Snowsport Head Coach, Pat Sharples.

“It shows their consistency against the best in the world right through this whole season.

“It’s absolutely fantastic, and we’re incredibly proud of both of them, as well as the whole wider GB Snowsport coaching and support team who’ve worked tirelessly through this whole winter.

“The entire team have done an incredible job, and to end the season on a high like this is just reward for all the hard work from everyone involved with GB Snowsport.”
Crystal Globe Standings

And lets not forget the GB telemark skier, Jasmin Taylor, who secured her twelfth World Cup podium of the season, and second in two days, with bronze in the Parallel Sprint in Les Contamines Montojoie.

The result gives Taylor a third PS podium of the season, and follows her gold medal winning performance in yesterday’s Classic race.

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