Kirsty Muir has become the first British woman to win World Cup titles in both freeski slopestyle and overall park and pipe.
More British success followed later on Saturday as Winter Olympic gold medallist Charlotte Bankes clinched the third World Cup title of her career in the snowboard cross.
Scot Muir, 21, finished second behind home skier Sarah Hofflin in the final slopestyle event of the 2025-26 season in Silvaplana, Switzerland.
Muir’s score of 75.54, behind 35-year-old Olympic bronze medallist Hofflin (80.07), was enough for her to claim a third consecutive podium, following wins in Aspen and Tignes.
It pushed her season score to 280 points to clinch the first slopestyle Crystal Globe of her career, by 69 points from Canada’s Elena Gaskell.
Muir also finished third in the big air season standings, on 219 points, giving her a combined total of 470 in the overall competition – which includes slopestyle, big air and halfpipe – to beat nearest challenger, Canada’s Naomi Urness, by 78 points.
In Mont Sainte Anne, Canada, 30-year-old Bankes entered top of the standings and cemented that position with a third victory of the 2026 season.
It meant she added to the World Cup titles she won in 2022 and 2023.
In February, Bankes and Huw Nightingale won Britain’s first Winter Olympics title on snow when they clinched snowboard cross mixed team gold.
Source:
www.bbc.com
