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On This Day in 2014 – Jenny Jones wins historic snowboarding bronze in Sochi

Jenny Jones secured Great Britain’s first Winter Olympic medal on snow on this day in 2014 with bronze in the snowboard slopestyle event in Sochi. At 33 Jones was the oldest entrant in the final by more than six years, and her experience showed with ...

09 Feb 2023 at 06:00

Sport

It’s like I’m in a dream – Mia Brookes becomes snowboarding world champion at 16

British teenager Mia Brookes is still in a state of shock after her coronation as the youngest world champion in snowboarding history. The 16-year-old was too young to qualify for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, but on Monday laid down a global ...

27 Feb 2023 at 18:40

Sport

Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale make history with GB mixed snowboard gold

Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale made history for Great Britain when they claimed the country’s maiden mixed team snowboard cross gold at the world championships in Bakuriani, Georgia. It was a redemptive morning for the pair who both ...

02 Mar 2023 at 11:49

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Britain’s Mia Brookes becomes youngest snowboarding world champion at age of 16

British teenager Mia Brookes became the youngest world champion in snowboarding history after capping off a magnificent morning in Bakuriani, Georgia with a milestone move. The 16-year-old, the first to win world slopestyle gold for ...

27 Feb 2023 at 12:50

Lifestyle

If one skis and the other snowboards, can a ski holiday work?

There are few sounds more intimidating to an average skier than the jarring, scratchy, grating approach of a snowboarder from behind in ominously icy conditions. I’d often given boarders – who always seemed to be teens or at least ...

31 Oct 2022 at 11:13

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Kirsty Muir relishing crack at second Winter Olympics after serious knee injury

Kirsty Muir starred as Great Britain’s youngest competitor at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing before jetting straight home to finish her Highers at school just outside Aberdeen. Then aged just 17, the freestyle skier had ...

06 Feb 2025 at 00:01

Sport

Olympic snowboarding hopeful Mia Brookes was ‘never going to do anything else’

A family friend who has known Winter Olympics gold medal hopeful Mia Brookes since she first began snowboarding has said the world champion was sliding down slopes “almost as soon as she could walk”. Brookes, 19, from ...

12 Feb 2026 at 23:04

Sport

Charlotte Bankes suffers quarter-final exit in familiar tale for Team GB

In a sport famed for its unpredictability and high-octane thrills and spills, the British snowboard-cross narrative remains crushingly consistent. Another Olympics, another meek quarter-final exit for a decorated ...

13 Feb 2026 at 14:43

Sport

Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale win historic snowboard gold for Britain

Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale won Great Britain’s first ever Olympic gold medal on snow after roaring to victory in the mixed team snowboard cross event in Livigno. The duo shrugged off disappointing ...

15 Feb 2026 at 16:28

Sport

Kirsty Muir on course for first Team GB medal after making ski slopestyle final

Kirsty Muir stayed on course to win Great Britain’s first medal of the 2026 Winter Olympics after qualifying in third place for Monday’s final of the women’s ski slopestyle competition at Livigno Snow Park....

07 Feb 2026 at 14:26

Sport

Mia Brookes narrowly misses medal after bold trick in Olympic snowboard final

Mia Brookes had no regrets about trying an historic trick that cost her an Olympic medal after finishing fourth in the women’s snowboard slopestyle final at the Livigno Snow Park. Starting her final run ...

09 Feb 2026 at 21:09

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