GB’s Zoe Atkin Joint Winner of Crystal Globe
16th February 2025
Last modified on April 8th, 2025
Zoe Atkin finished second at the Calgary Freeski Halfpipe World Cup and in doing so secured a share of the Crystal Globe title. It comes as GB snowboarder Charlotte Bankes wins again. UPDATED
Qualifying in first place, Atkin’s Finals score of 87.75 was enough to secure second place on the podium behind Li Fanghui of China and ahead of Canada’s Rachael Karkar in third.
The result gave Atkin and Li an identical World Cup record for the 2024/25 season, leading to both athletes being named Crystal Globe winners.
It is the first time an exact tie has occurred in FIS Freeski history.
Atkin’s season record now reads three World Cup podiums in five competitions.
She had two second place finishes and one victory in her last three competitions.
Atkin will next be in action at next month’s Freestyle World Championships in St Moritz.
Full Podium
- Li Fanghui (CHN) – 90.50 | 2. Zoe Atkin (GBR) – 87.75 | 3. Rachael Karker (CAN) – 87.00
In Italy Charlotte Bankes secured her third World Cup win of the season with victory at the Cortina d’Ampezzo Snowboard Cross World Cup.
Charlotte Bankes. Image credit Giovanni Zenoni / FIS.
In Italy Charlotte Bankes secured her third World Cup win of the season with victory at the Cortina d’Ampezzo Snowboard Cross World Cup.
Having qualified in top spot, Bankes finished second in both her Quarter and Semi finals, before taking victory in a hotly contested Big Final against a triumvirate of French rider
Lea Casta finished second and Manon Petit Lenoir in third. Julia
Pereira de Sousa, meanwhile, took fourth.
The result gives Bankes a third consecutive World Cup victory, with only fourth place in the season’s opening race preventing a clean sweep of victories to date.
“I’m really happy. It was super tight racing today but I managed to pull off a good start and I knew we had the speed at the bottom,” said Charlotte after her victory.
“The boards are running well and we’d worked out a good line, so it was just a case of trying to pull it off.
“I didn’t quite believe it was going to happen, but really happy with how it went today, a great team effort.”
- On battling back at the mid point of the Big Final: “I just knew I had to focus on myself and my riding. I knew I had the speed, we knew the French weren’t as fast at the bottom, so I knew I’d be able to come back fast and it was just giving it my all until the end. I wasn’t going to leave any stone unturned to win today.”
- On carrying momentum through to the end of the season: “We’re not even halfway through for our season yet, so it’s just keeping that focus race after race, keeping working hard, keeping it going, and hopefully that gives us that momentum.”
Additional GB snowsport highlights
- Emily Rothney and Sandra Caune won Big Air Gold at EYOF 2025 this morning in the Freestyle Snowboard and Freeski events respectively, taking Britain’s EYOF snowsport medal tally to five
- Reece Bell and Victoria Palla finished 20th and 23rd in the Alpine World Championships Women’s Slalom, giving Britain it’s first double top-30 finish in a Women’s World Championships Slalom since 1993, while Reece Bell’s result is the highest Women’s Slalom World Championships finish for a British skier since Emma Carrick-Anderson’s 11th place at the 1997 Alpine World Championships
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