Muir wins in Aspen for third World Cup gold
Kirsty Muir's first career World Cup win came last season in the Slopestyle event in Tignes, France, in March 2025
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Great Britain's Kirsty Muir claimed a third World Cup victory of her career by winning the freeski slopestyle event at the US Grand Prix in Aspen on Friday.
The 21-year-old finished first in qualifying before winning gold with a score of 80.62 achieved on her first run of the final in Colorado.
It is the Scot's seventh career World Cup podium finish - coming little more than a month after breaking her thumb.
And it is her second victory of the 2025-26 season, after she took gold at the Big Air World Cup at the Secret Garden in Zhangjiakou, China, in November.
"I'm just very stoked, stoked with how I'm skiing," said Muir.
"Conditions were slightly tough today, so we just managed to get through it. I'm just really enjoying myself, enjoying how I'm skiing at the moment, so everything's really good."
Canada took second and third places, with Megan Oldham scoring 73.02 and Elena Gaskell 72.90.
Muir's winning run featured a right-side double cork 1080, a left-side 720, and a front-side 630 out.
"Kirsty has faced her fair share of adversity this winter," said GB Snowsport's freeski head coach Jamie Matthew.
"From winning her first Big Air to then breaking her thumb the week after, today's win shows her strength of character to continually show up and give it her best.
"I couldn't be happier for her, wins are always hard fought, so it's amazing she's walked away with something to show for the continued hard work and dedication."
Muir, who was Team GB's youngest competitor, aged 17, at the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022, will compete at the Games in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo next month.
Hall and Lawrence win bobsleigh bronze
This was Taylor Lawrence's (left) first two-man competition since he and Brad Hall (right) finished sixth at the World Championships in Lake Placid 10 months ago
On Saturday, GB's Brad Hall and Taylor Lawrence won World Cup bronze in the two-man bobsleigh in St Moritz.
With the race in Switzerland doubling as the European Championships, the British pair also secured a European bronze medal.
Lawrence, 29, had been sidelined with a calf injury for the first four races of the season and only returned to action a week ago with a fourth-place finish in the four-man event in Winterberg, German.
The duo clocked a two-run time of two minutes and 13.43 seconds to finish behind a German one-two - winners Johannes Lochner and Georg Fleischhauer and second-placed Francesco Friedrich and Alexander Schuller.
Hall, 35, and Lawrence will race again on Sunday in the penultimate four-man event of the World Cup campaign, before the season concludes with race seven in Altenberg, Germany next weekend.
