GB’s Bankes Comes 4th in First Snowboard X this Season

5th December 2024

Last modified on December 14th, 2024

The Snowboard Cross World Cup season gets underway this weekend and GB’s Charlotte Bankes has taken 4th spot. She is trying to reclaim the Crystal Globe after missing out last year. UPDATED

She came 4th in the opening event of the season in Cervinia, Italy.

She missed a podium place, but only just and she put some valuable World Cup points in the bag.

Bankes finished top of the rankings to win the coveted trophy two years in a row, in 2022 and 2023.

GB’s Charlotte Bankes Takes Snowboard Cross World Title

Charlotte Bankes wins SBX Crystal Globe 2022-23 Season. Image c/o FIS

But at the end of last season Chloe Trespeuch of France thwarted Bankes’ attempt to become a three-time back to back Globe winner.

Both Trespeuch and another of Bankes’ rivals, the reigning World Champion Eva Adamczykova of Czechia, will not be racing this season as both are pregnant.

Instead, one of the main threats will be Italy’s Michela Moioli, who finished third behind Trespeuch and Bankes last year after coming back from injury.

Others to look out for are Australians Josie Baff and Belle Brockhoff and the three-time Olympic medallist, Lindsey Jacobellis, who will be competing for the USA Snowboard team for a 20^th year.

There’s a lot of racing to look forward to, including at new venues, as the athletes prepare for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.

Bankes did not make it into the medals at the last Winter Games in Beijing but, all being well, she will be a strong prospect for the podium in Milan-Cortina.

Charlotte Bankes, at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics – photo © Sam Mellish/Team GB

There are eight World Cups in the 2024-25 season and 2025 World Championships in St Moritz at the end of March.

13-14 December: Cervinia, Italy
23-25 January: Dolní Morava, Czechia
31 Jan – 2 Feb: Beidahu, China
14-15 February: Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy (night event)
28 Feb – 2 March: Erzerum, Turkey
7-9 March – Gudauri, Georgia
20-22 March – Montafon, Austria
27-29 March – World Championships, St Moritz, Switzerland
4-6 April – Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada

Bankes is a double World Champion for GB.

She won individually in 2021.

GB Snowboarder is 2021 Snowboard Cross World Champion

And in 2023, she won again, this time alongside Huw Nightingale in the team event.

World Championships Gold for GB Snowboard Cross Team

At PlanetSKI we’ll be watching Charlotte Bankes’ progress, along with that of the rest of the GB Snowsport athletes, all the way through the build-up to the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.

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