Britain's Muir wins historic World Cup ski titles

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.

In contrast, Muir had experienced disappointment at the Milan-Cortina Games, finishing fourth in both slopestyle and big air.

After coming so close to a medal, the X Games champion told BBC Sport after the Winter Olympics that it just motivated her to go on and achieve more.

"I am really excited to go and try to learn some new tricks," she said. "I am excited to see where I can push myself and where I can push the sport.

"For the next two years I will go and do everything that I would like to do and forget about the Olympics, and then when it comes round to qualification again I will get stuck in."

Vicky Gosling, GB Snowsport chief executive, said: "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.

"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."