As the nights get longer and the sun begins to appear, it is time to look back at the winter season that was.
With less than a year until Milano Cortina 2026, there are no shortage of British athletes looking to fine-tune their preparations to make sure they peak at just the right time.
We've identified 10 who made the winter season their own:
Zoe Atkin
Zoe Atkin finally scaled the women’s freeski halfpipe summit this winter.
After bronze in 2021 and silver in 2023, 2025 was the 22-year-old's year as she was crowned world champion in March.
Having first won World Cup gold at 16, Atkin needed to summon all of her experience after falling on the first run of the World Championships.
She duly did so, scoring 93.50 to win gold and finish just 0.5 points ahead of China’s Li Fanghui in silver.
It was the cherry on top of a sparkling season for Atkin after she and Li shared the crystal globe as joint winners of the World Cup.
Charlotte Bankes
Charlotte Bankes enjoyed a scarcely believable run of results in the women’s snowboard cross.
After missing out on a podium in the first race of the season, Bankes then won gold in four consecutive World Cups.
Another gold, and a bronze, followed before her season was cut short with a broken collarbone which left her second in the overall standings.
Bankes also claimed silver at the World Championships, missing out on her second title in a photo finish with eventual champion Michela Moioli.
Mia Brookes
Still only 18, Mia Brookes is already a big name in Big Air and Slopestyle.
She became world champion at just 16 and, in 2025, the snowboarder won her second consecutive Crystal Globe, as the leader of the World Cup standings.
Brookes claimed two individual wins across the five events which was enough to take the title, as she and Mari Fukada finished level on points.
She recorded four podiums in total, meaning she was able to sit out the final event and still claim the title.
Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson
After several near-misses, Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson made it onto the World Figure Skating Championships podium.
The Ice Dance duo were already fan favourites but have now established themselves as a force to be reckoned with.
Their season began with gold at the Skate America Grand Prix, becoming the first non-Americans to claim the title since 2008.
More history followed with a third consecutive European podium as they claimed bronze in Tallinn.
The season was capped off in stunning style as the pair won world bronze in Boston to mark Great Britain’s first world figure skating medal since Torvil & Dean in 1984.
Team Jackson
Team Jackson’s women’s curling team got the party started as they earned Team GB’s first Olympic quota spot for Milano Cortina 2026.
Skipped by Sophie Jackson, the Scotland rink won European bronze in November, their first continental medal as this team.
The rink includes Beijing gold medallist Jennifer Dodds alongside Rebecca Morrison, Sophie Sinclair and alternate Fay Henderson.
Team Jackson finished sixth at the World Women’s Curling Championships in March to secure a place for Team GB at the Winter Olympic Games next year.
Team Mouat
Not to be outdone, Team Mouat’s men’s curlers experienced an unprecedented season on the ice.
The Beijing silver medallists won their second World Championship gold in 2025, doing so by coming through a qualification match – the first world champions to do so.
They concluded their season by making history as the first rink to win four Grand Slam events in one season.
The team, comprised of Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr and alternate Kyle Waddell, also claimed European silver to ensure their trophy cabinet will need an extra couple of shelves.
Kirsty Muir
The youngest member of Team GB at Beijing 2022 is enjoying a comeback for the ages.
Kirsty Muir tore her ACL in 2023 which required two surgeries and a year of rehab before she was back competing on the slopes.
She immediately qualified for the finals of the women’s ski slopestyle in her first event back, which was a sign of things to come.
Just two months later, Muir topped the podium as she won the World Cup in Tignes, which was made all the more special as it was her first-ever World Cup gold.
Dave Ryding
Dave Ryding has been in alpine skiing for a long time but is still making history.
The 38-year-old went to his first Olympics in 2010 and is now a four-time Olympian with eyes on a fifth appearance in Milano-Cortina next year.
The man who learned to ski on an artificial slope in Pendle finished sixth in the slalom at the World Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm earlier this year.
In doing so, he recorded Great Britain’s best finish at a men’s Alpine World Ski Championships since CH Hudson in 1934.
Matt Weston
Matt Weston channelled the nerves and won big this season.
The skeleton star became Britain’s first-ever two-time world champion in the sport as he reclaimed his title in Lake Placid in March.
It was far from his only silverware of the season, as he defended his skeleton World Cup title.
Weston won two events and only missed the podium once, in the final event.
In the mixed team event, which will make its Games debut next year, Weston also claimed a second consecutive silver alongside Tabby Stoecker.
Marcus Wyatt
While Weston took the crown, Marcus Wyatt set the pace this season.
The slider finished second in the first two World Cup events of the season before claiming gold in Sigulda to hold an early lead in the standings.
With bronze in the final event, Wyatt claimed silver in the overall standings to mark the first time Great Britain have held the top two places.
The last World Cup event of the season also doubled as the European Championships with Wyatt taking silver, missing out on defending his title by mere hundredths of a second.
At the World Championships, it was another British 1-2 as Wyatt’s silver emphasised which nation is the one to beat in men’s skeleton.
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