GB’s Charlotte Bankes Going for Gold Again
14th December 2021
Last modified on December 18th, 2021
Christmas might be coming but there’s no let up in the snowsports action with alpine, freestyle, cross country and snowboard action this week and next. GB’s latest World Cup winner is back on the slopes on Friday. Charlotte Bankes has topped the qualifying in the snowboard cross. UPDATED
Winter Olympic season is going pretty well for GB’s ski and snowboard stars so far.
There’s already been one World Cup victory in Snowboard Cross, multiple medals in para snowsports and a brilliant 5th place for Dave Ryding in his first World Cup slalom race of the winter in Val d’Isere.
It’s The Rocket’s best result on the difficult Face de Bellevarde course.
Ryding’s next race is at Madonna di Campiglio in Italy on 22nd December.
But Charlotte Bankes will be back in Snowboard Cross action less than a week after winning the World Cup at Montafon in Austria.
It will be her third World Cup of the winter.
She’s be competing in Cervinia in Italy on Friday 17th December.
She topped the qualifying and crossed the line in 42.06sec. That’s an average speed of 54.78
The reigning World Champion, Bankes has had a spectacular start to the season.
As well as her victory in Austria, she won silver in the first World Cup of the winter, in China.
She has been on the podium in her last four World Cups.
Charlotte Bankes – photo © PlanetSKI
Away from the World Cup, the prestigious invitation-only freestyle ski competition the Dew Tour takes place in Colorado.
The talented British youngster, Kirsty Muir, will be making her Dew Tour debut.
Another in-form athlete, James Barnes-Miller, will also compete at the Dew Tour.
The para snowboarder goes into the event on the back of World Cup silver and bronze medals at Pyha in Finland last weekend.
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Here’s the full round-up of the GB Snowsport athletes competing between now and 21st December.
Alpine
16th December – Europa Cup (Slalom), Val di Fassa (ITA):
- Rob Poth
- Laurie Taylor
15th – 18th December – World Cup (Downhill, Super G), Val Gardena (ITA):
- Roy Steudle
19th – 20th December – World Cup (Giant Slalom), Alta Badia (ITA):
- Charlie Raposo
Cross-Country
18th – 19th December – World Cup (SP F, Team Sprint), Dresden (GER):
- James Clugnet
- Andrew Young
Freestyle Ski
16th – 19th December – Dew Tour (Slopestyle, Halfpipe), Copper Mountain (USA):
- Zoe Atkin
- Gus Kenworthy
- Kirsty Muir
- James Woods
Zoe Atkin (@zoeaatkin) just flew into the @DewTour Superpipe top 10 with a brilliant 7th place!
She came in hot with a particularly big left 5 mute on her first hit 🔥🔥🔥
📷: Walter pic.twitter.com/ozshBhQycJ
— GB Snowsport (@GBSnowsport) December 17, 2021
Moguls
17th – 18th December – World Cup, Alpe d’Huez (FRA):
- Will Feneley
- Leonie Gerken Schofield
- Makayla Gerken Schofield
- Tom Gerken Schofield
- Mateo Jeannesson
- Skyler Nunn
Ski Cross
13th – 15th December – World Cup, Arosa (SUI):
- Ollie Davies
- Emma Peters
16th – 18th December – Europa Cup, Val Thorens (FRA):
- Greg Baillie
- Seb Ison
- Alannah Lawrie
- Max Vaughton
- Claire Winthrop
- Patrick Young
Snowboard Cross
13th – 15th December – FIS, Reiteralm (AUT):
- Brandon Cain
17th – 18th December – World Cup, Cervinia (ITA):
- Charlotte Bankes
- Huw Nightingale
- Maisie Potter
Para Alpine
13th – 14th December – Europa Cup, Steinach am Brenner (AUT):
- Millie Knight & Brett Wild
- Menna Fitzpatrick & Katie Guest
- Neil Simpson & Andrew Simpson
- Shona Brownlee
- Alex Slegg
17th – 21st December – World Cup, St. Moritz (SUI):
- Millie Knight & Brett Wild
- Menna Fitzpatrick & Katie Guest
- Neil Simpson & Andrew Simpson
- Shona Brownlee
- Alex Slegg
Para Snowboard
16th – 19th December – Dew Tour, Copper Mountain (USA):
- James Barnes-Miller
- Andy MacLeod
- Owen Pick
(Location TBC) 17th – 19th December – Europa Cup, Hochfugen (AUT):
- Jon-Allan Butterworth
