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28-03-2025
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GB snowboarder Brookes bids to defend title at Worlds
Britain's Mia Brookes will be defending her slopestyle world title [Getty Images] Great Britain's 2023 world champions Mia Brookes (snowboard slopestyle) and Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale (team snowboard cross) are looking to defend their titles at the 2025 Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships. The event is taking place in Engadin, Switzerland and sees the world's best athletes compete in slopestyle, halfpipe, big air, ski and snowboard cross, parallel giant slalom, aerials, and moguls. Advertisement The Championships run until Sunday, 30 March, with coverage of selected finals available on iPlayer, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app (coverage details below). Great Britain has sent an 18-strong team squad which includes current 2024-25 joint-Crystal Globe ski halfpipe holder Zoe Atkin, and Kirsty Muir, fresh from her World Cup win in Tignes. Eight of the team are making their debuts. World stars to look out for On the global front, USA's double Olympic champion in the snowboard halfpipe Chloe Kim has returned from a break from the sport in 2022-23 and looks rejuvenated. New Zealand's reigning snowboard slopestyle Olympic champion Zoi Sadowski-Synnott will be a big contender in her favourite event having also taken home the most recent X Games crown. Advertisement Elsewhere, expect a colossal battle between evergreen Austrian Anna Gasser and Brookes, who have both won big air World Cups this season. On the men's side, PyeongChang 2018 Olympic champion Red Gerard will be one of Team USA's top hopes but will have to be at his best to overcome Canadian prodigy Cameron Spalding. Japanese teenage star Hasegawa Taiga is the early favourite for gold in big air, while Olympic champion Hirano Ayumu is set for an epic battle with Hirano Ruka in halfpipe. Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships: Schedule and BBC coverage Coverage of selected events will be available on iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app. All times are subject to late changes. Advertisement FRIDAY, 21 MARCH Snowboard Slopestyle Women's Finals 0755-0925 GMT Ski Cross Finals 0955-1125 GMT Snowboard Slopestyle Men's Finals 1025-1215 GMT Freeski Slopestyle Women's & Men's Finals 1110-1330 GMT SATURDAY, 22 MARCH Freeski Slopestyle Women's Finals 0855-0955 GMT Ski Cross Teams Finals 0955-1130 GMT Freeski Slopestyle Men's Finals 1125-1255 GMT Parallel Slalom Finals 1225-1405 GMT SUNDAY, 23 MARCH Parallel Mixed Teams Finals 1120-1330 GMT FRIDAY, 28 MARCH Snowboard Cross Finals 1055-1240 GMT Snowboard Big Air Finals 1825-2025 GMT SATURDAY, 29 MARCH Snowboard Half Pipe Women's Finals 0855-0955 GMT Advertisement Snowboard Cross Teams Finals 0955-10:55 GMT Snowboard Half Pipe Men's Finals 1055-12:25 GMT Freeski Big Air Finals 1825-20:15 GMT SUNDAY, 30 MARCH Freeski Half Pipe Women's Finals 0955-1100 BST Freeski Half Pipe Men's Finals 1155-1330 BST Aerials Finals 1255-1510 BST
BBC News
20-03-2025
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GB snowboarder Brookes bids to defend title at Worlds
Great Britain's 2023 world champions Mia Brookes (snowboard slopestyle) and Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale (team snowboard cross) are looking to defend their titles at the 2025 Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World event is taking place in Engadin, Switzerland and sees the world's best athletes compete in slopestyle, halfpipe, big air, ski and snowboard cross, parallel giant slalom, aerials, and Championships run until Sunday, 30 March, with coverage of selected finals available on iPlayer, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app (coverage details below).Great Britain has sent an 18-strong team squad which includes current 2024-25 joint-Crystal Globe ski halfpipe holder Zoe Atkin, and Kirsty Muir, fresh from her World Cup win in Tignes. Eight of the team are making their debuts. World stars to look out for On the global front, USA's double Olympic champion in the snowboard halfpipe Chloe Kim has returned from a break from the sport in 2022-23 and looks rejuvenated. New Zealand's reigning snowboard slopestyle Olympic champion Zoi Sadowski-Synnott will be a big contender in her favourite event having also taken home the most recent X Games expect a colossal battle between evergreen Austrian Anna Gasser and Brookes, who have both won big air World Cups this the men's side, PyeongChang 2018 Olympic champion Red Gerard will be one of Team USA's top hopes but will have to be at his best to overcome Canadian prodigy Cameron teenage star Hasegawa Taiga is the early favourite for gold in big air, while Olympic champion Hirano Ayumu is set for an epic battle with Hirano Ruka in halfpipe. Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships: Schedule and BBC coverage Coverage of selected events will be available on iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app. All times are subject to late 21 MARCHSnowboard Slopestyle Women's Finals 0755-0925 GMTSki Cross Finals 0955-1125 GMTSnowboard Slopestyle Men's Finals 1025-1215 GMTFreeski Slopestyle Women's & Men's Finals 1110-1330 GMTSATURDAY, 22 MARCHFreeski Slopestyle Women's Finals 0855-0955 GMTSki Cross Teams Finals 0955-1130 GMT Freeski Slopestyle Men's Finals 1125-1255 GMTParallel Slalom Finals 1225-1405 GMTSUNDAY, 23 MARCHParallel Mixed Teams Finals 1120-1330 GMTFRIDAY, 28 MARCHSnowboard Cross Finals 1055-1240 GMTSnowboard Big Air Finals 1825-2025 GMTSATURDAY, 29 MARCHSnowboard Half Pipe Women's Finals 0855-0955 GMTSnowboard Cross Teams Finals 0955-10:55 GMTSnowboard Half Pipe Men's Finals 1055-12:25 GMTFreeski Big Air Finals 1825-20:15 GMTSUNDAY, 30 MARCHFreeski Half Pipe Women's Finals 0955-1100 BSTFreeski Half Pipe Men's Finals 1155-1330 BSTAerials Finals 1255-1510 BST
BBC News
14-03-2025
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Teenager Brookes wins World Cup snowboard title for GB
British athlete Mia Brookes has won the overall World Cup Snowboard Park & Pipe 18-year-old, who in 2023 became the youngest world champion in snowboard history at the age of 16, took the title after the cancellation of the finals of the Absolut Park Slopestyle World has recorded seven World Cup podiums this season including victories in Beijing, Klagenfurt and takes the title with 500 World Cup points, 35 clear of Japan's Mari Fukada in second, while New Zealander Zoi Sadowski-Synott claimed third with 436 was more British success as Kirsty Muir took her maiden World Cup skiing victory with a sensational performance at the Tignes Slopestyle World only returned to action from a serious knee injury in February after a year out, the 20-year-old beat Australia's Abi Harrigan and New Zealand's Ruby Star Andrews, who were second and third said: "I'm so stoked, just over the moon. I'm super happy to get a clean run down and make it on to the top of the podium – first time!"I'm back stronger than I was which is even better. This is what I wanted and here I am – first World Cup win and after my knee, I'm just so stoked."
Yahoo
22-02-2025
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GB's Brookes wins slopestyle World Cup bronze
Great Britain's Mia Brookes won bronze at the Slopestyle World Cup in Calgary. Brookes, the 2023 world champion, scored 74.08 to comfortably secure a podium finish ahead of Australia's Tess Coady. Fukada Mari just edged Germany's Annika Morgan to secure her first slopestyle World Cup gold. Morgan had topped the standings with 76.30, but the 18-year-old Japanese scored 77.58 with the final run of the competition to claim victory.
BBC News
22-02-2025
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GB's Brookes wins slopestyle World Cup bronze
Great Britain's Mia Brookes won bronze at the Slopestyle World Cup in the 2023 world champion, scored 74.08 to comfortably secure a podium finish ahead of Australia's Tess Mari just edged Germany's Annika Morgan to secure her first slopestyle World Cup had topped the standings with 76.30, but the 18-year-old Japanese scored 77.58 with the final run of the competition to claim victory.
