The stars of snow are raring to go.
From the crazy disciplines of freestyle skiing and snowboarding, to the gruelling showcase of cross-country and iconic runs in alpine, Team GB are set.
An incredible 20 athletes will compete for Great Britain across the four sports at Milano Cortina 2026.
Meet the athletes who are ready to shine.
Freestyle Skiing
Zoe Atkin (halfpipe)
DOB: 16.01.2003
Hometown: Newtown, Massachusetts
Olympic record:: Beijing 2022
At 23 years old, Zoe Atkin has already had a career many people dream of.
She won her first World Cup halfpipe gold aged 16 at Copper Mountain and reclaimed that title six years later to kick off the 2025-26 winter season in style.
But it is what she has achieved between then that is truly impressive, as in 2025, the Stanford University student completed the set of World Championship medals with gold in Engadin.
It sets her up at a tilt to follow her sister Izzy in winning an Olympic medal, with her older sibling becoming Team GB’s first-ever Olympic medal on skis at PyeongChang 2018.
Atkin won X Games super pipe gold in 2023 and backed that up with a silver the following year before clinching the overall halfpipe World Cup crystal globe in the 2024-25 season after winning gold and two silvers throughout the season.
Gus Kenworthy
DOB: 01/10/1991
Hometown: Chelmsford
Olympic record: Sochi 2014, Pyeongchang 2018, Beijing 2022
After three-and-a-half-years away from the snow, May 2025 marked the return of Olympic silver medallist Gus Kenworthy.
Milano Cortina will be the fourth Games of Kenworthy’s career – one he spent the bulk of competing for the USA.
Born in Essex, Kenworthy moved to Telluride, Colorado as a toddler.
He scooped slopestyle silver at Sochi 2014, before once again representing the States at Pyeongchang 2018, before changing to represent the country of his birth.
Kenworthy, a multiple X Games medallist, soared to his maiden triumph in British colours at a Calgary World Cup halfpipe event in 2020.
He blazed a trail in October 2015, becoming the first action sports star to come out as gay in a bid to inspire the next generation of talent to chase their Olympic dreams.
Liam Richards
DOB: 07.01.2008
Hometown: Zurich
Olympic record: N/A
Liam Richards will make his Winter Olympic debut in Milano Cortina and will realise a life-long dream in the process.
Richards began skiing at age two in Laax, Switzerland and by four, he was showing early promise in freestyle skiing.
Following a short period living in Singapore, Richards moved with his family to Auckland, New Zealand where he continued to ski – hitting his first backflip aged just seven.
He debuted on the World Cup circuit in 2024, qualified for his first World Cup final in Calgary in 2025, and achieved his best-ever World Cup finish of ninth at the event in Copper in December 2025.
Kirsty Muir
DOB: 05/05/2004
Hometown: Aberdeen
Olympic record: Beijing 2022
Kirsty Muir returns for her second Winter Olympic Games after being Team GB’s youngest athlete in Beijing four years ago.
She first put on a pair of skis when she was just three years old in her home city of Aberdeen and ten years later beat competitors five years older than her to win multiple junior British skiing titles.
Muir finished sixth in the 2021 World Championships and picked up a string of top-ten World Cup finishes to qualify for an Olympic debut in Beijing in women’s slopestyle and big air, where she finished fifth in the Big Air and eighth in the slopestyle.
Since then, Muir has soared to 2023 X Games double bronze in the disciplines heads into Milano Cortina in fine form having won her maiden World Cup event at Tignes in March 2025 and many more since.
Chris McCormick
DOB: 13/06/1998
Hometown: Bearsden
Olympic record: N/A
Chris McCormick will make his Winter Olympics debut at Milano Cortina after missing out on a place at Beijing 2022 by the narrowest of margins.
He has been involved with skiing since he was six years old having learnt to ski at his local dryslope in Scotland.
McCormick has been competing in the World Cup circuit for eight years with his best finishes coming at the Stubai and Corvatsch World Cups, where he finished seventh and 12th respectively.
Makayla Gerken Schofield
DOB: 04/06/1999
Hometown: Chelmsford
Olympic record: Beijing 2022
Makayla Gerken Schofield’s first attempts at aerials were so terrifying they left the youngster in tears but in 2022 she clinched Team GB’s best-ever moguls finish at a Winter Olympics.
Having started mogul skiing aged 10, she achieved a dream eighth place finish at Beijing 2022 and will head to Milano Cortina with hopes of placing even higher.
In pursuing moguls, she followed in the footsteps of older twin siblings Leonie and Tom and the whole family relocated from Chelmsford to the French Alps when Makayla was six.
She claimed a then-personal best sixth place World Cup finish at Deer Valley in May 2021, one place higher than she earned in dual moguls in Tazawako, Japan in 2020.
Matéo Jeannesson
DOB: 28/03/2004
Hometown: Alpe d’Huez
Olympic record: N/A
Matéo Jeannesson showed skiing talent from a young age, and now he will look to fulfil that promise as he heads to a debut Olympics at Milano Cortina 2026.
Jeannesson was taught to ski by his father and has enjoyed considerable success in British colours.
He claimed his first World Cup top-20 in 2023 as well finishing on the podium at the 2023 Junior World Championships.
But 2024 represented his breakthrough year as he was crowed Junior World Champion at the 2024 Valmalenco Championships and finished sixth at the Ruka World Cup.
Ollie Davies
DOB: 15/05/1997
Hometown: Guildford, Surrey
Olympic record: Beijing 2022
The 2019 Junior Ski Cross World Champion, Ollie Davies learnt his craft on annual family holidays to France from a young age.
When his family moved across the Channel, he joined his local French club Montchavin Les Coches and quickly began alpine racing before switching disciplines.
Junior World Championships gold in New Zealand was followed up by Davies finishing fourth in the Ski Cross World Championships – by doing so being the first British athlete to compete in the Big Final.
He qualified for his first Olympics at Beijing 2022 where he finished 31st and in 2023, made his first World Cup podium as he finished second in Reiteralm.
Snowboarding
Charlotte Bankes
DOB: 10.06.1995
Hometown: Hemel Hempstead
Olympic record: Sochi 2014, Pyeongchang 2018, Beijing 2022
Charlotte Bankes is set for her fourth Olympic Games but her journey to Milano Cortina has been far from straightforward.
The 30-year-old broke her collarbone last April, just as she was set to win a third World Cup title in four years, and needed two rounds of surgery that left her in a race to be fit for the Games.
In 2021, Bankes was crowned Britain’s first snowboarding world champion and the first British woman to claim a world title in a winter sport for 85 years.
At her first Olympics for Team GB, she reached the quarter-finals in the individual event.
Bankes won the Crystal Globe in 2021-22 and 2022-23 as well as becoming the 2023 Team Event World Champion after an impressive performance with Huw Nightingale in Bakuriani.
Huw Nightingale
DOB: 12.11.2001
Hometown: Bolton
Olympic record: Beijing 2022
Huw Nightingale has wasted no time in stamping his authority on one of winter sports’ most unpredictable disciplines and has two shots at a medal at Milano Cortina.
Nightingale will race in the men's individual event and then partner Charlotte Bankes in the team event, where they are among the ones to beat.
They became the 2023 Team Event World Champion after an impressive performance with in Bakuriani and have clinched multiple World Cup podiums since, including a silver in Erzurum in March 2025.
Txema Mazet-Brown
DOB: 14/03/2006
Hometown: Reunion Island
Olympic record: N/A
Txema Mazet-Brown was on the slopes before he could even walk so it is perhaps unsurprising the youngster is preparing to make his Winter Olympics debut at just 19.
Mazet-Brown enjoyed his first taste of snow in the French Alps where he learned to ski.
His family emigrated to New Zealand when Mazet-Brown was just three, where he continued to hone his skills on the slopes of Mount Ruapehu and picked up a snowboard for the first time aged nine.
Since then he has become one of the brightest names in British winter sport, having twice won the Big Air crown at the European Cup, along with the Big Air world title at the Snowboarding Junior World Championships in 2024.
Mia Brookes
DOB: 19/01/2007
Hometown: Sandbach
Olympic record: N/A
Mia Brookes is the youngest world champion in the history of snowboarding and heads to Milano Cortina as a real medal hope.
Aged 16, back in 2023, she won slopestyle gold in Georgia to become the nation's first-ever world champion in the event.
Since then, she has continued to shine and struck gold at the legendary X Games and won the big air World Cup title in 2024.
She now has multiple World Cup overall titles and individual medals to her name in both the slopestyle and big air disciplines.
Maisie Hill
DOB: 12.02.2001
Hometown: Cheltenham
Olympic record: N/A
Maisie Hill has overcome the biggest hurdle to make her Olympic debut at Milano Cortina 2026.
The snowboarder was involved in a major crash during training during January 2023 and was told she may never walk again after sustaining a lacerated liver.
Hill also punctured a lung, caused a major brain bleed and broke two vertebrae and four ribs.
She has soared back onto the slopes and defied all odds to reach her Olympic dreams.
Hill was introduced to snowboarding by her father aged eight on the hill behind their house in Cheltenham.
Alpine Skiing
Dave Ryding
DOB: 05/12/1986
Hometown: Chorley
Olympic record: Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018, Beijing 2022
The most successful British skier of all time, Dave Ryding will bring the curtain down on a glittering career at a fifth Winter Olympic Games at Milano Cortina 2026.
His Olympic journey began at Vancouver 2010 and in PyeongChang eight years later he secured the best alpine finish by a British skier in 30 years with a ninth-place finish.
The ‘Rocket’ has won seven medals on the World Cup circuit - most recently bronze in Madonna di Campiglio in December 2023.
A glorious victory at Kitzbuehel in January 2022 saw Ryding clinch his maiden World Cup gold in the slalom, it marked the first by a British alpine skier in World Cup history.
Billy Major
DOB: 21.11.1996
Hometown: Cambridge
Olympic record: Beijing 2022
When your parents run a skiing company, you are always going to find yourself on the slopes from a young age.
As a junior, Billy Major forged a promising career, competing at the Winter Youth Olympics and winning two junior British titles - backing that up with senior titles in 2017 and 2018.
He studied a neuroscience degree at University and made his Olympic bow at Beijing 2022, before securing the first top 10 World Cup finish of his career in 2025, finishing ninth in Hafjell.
Laurie Taylor
DOB: 10.02.1996
Hometown: Aldershot
Olympic record: PyeongChang 2018
Laurie Taylor kicked off the 2025-26 Olympic season with a best-ever World Cup finish before being selected for his second Winter Olympic Games.
The Aldershot native has had to wait eight years between his Games appearances, having debut in PyeongChang, where he finished 26 in the men’s slalom and helped the team to a fifth-place finish.
Since his Olympic debut, he has gone from strength-to-strength, recording an eighth-place finish at Aspen 2024.
He then upgraded that to fourth in Levi in November 2025, as teammate Dave Ryding finished seventh, only the second time two Brits have been in the top 10 of an alpine World Cup.
Cross-country Skiing
Andrew Musgrave
D.O.B: 6/3/1990
Hometown: Oyne, Scotland
Olympic record: Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018, Beijing 2022
Andrew Musgrave will become an inaugural member of an elite club of British Winter Olympians when he competes at Milano Cortina 2026.
Musgrave heads to his fifth Winter Olympics, an incredible feat for any athlete.
It is a testament to Musgrave’s skill, hard work, and dedication that he continues to compete at the highest level 16 years on from his Olympic debut at Vancouver 2010.
His best result came in 2018, where he finished seventh in the 30km skiathlon – a result he matched at the 2025 World Championships on his ‘home’ track in Trondheim, Norway – the country he has called home since 2009.
James Clugnet
D.O.B: 4/12/1996
Hometown: Grenoble
Olympic record: Beijing 2022
James Clugnet returns for his second Winter Olympic Games at Milano Cortina 2026.
Clugnet made his Olympic debut at Beijing 2022, where he finished 40th in the men’s sprint and 20th in the team sprint.
It followed steady progression through the ranks of World Cups and World Championships, having joined the British team aged 16.
When not training, Clugnet can be found behind the mic recording his podcast ‘Skirious Problems’ alongside Austria’s Mika Vermeulen.
Joe Davies
D.O.B: 27-02-2001
Hometown: Fort St. James, Canada
Olympic record: N/A
Joe Davies will make his Olympic debut at Milano Cortina 2026, having been inspired by Vancouver 2010.
Davies was just nine years old when the Olympics took place, perfect timing for a budding skier whose interest in the sport was growing and growing.
Davies tried all manner of sports before landing on Nordic skiing, and trained at the Canadian national centre before competing for Great Britain.
It has proved an inspired move as he prepares for his Olympic debut, with a number of top-20 World Cup finishes already under his belt.
Anna Pryce
D.O.B: 07.12.2001
Hometown: Aberdeen, Scotland
Olympic record: N/A
Anna Pryce has rocketed to the top of the British standings in just one season to reach her maiden Olympic Games.
Born in Scotland, Pryce switched allegiance to GB Snowsport ahead of this season and has had an impressive World Cup season.
Her inclusion in the 2025/26 circuit marked the first time Britain has entered an athlete into a women’s Cross-Country World Cup field since 2019.
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