Alpine Skiing

Billy Major has been skiing since the age of two and started racing when he was seven.

He is a regular on the World Cup circuit, with his best slalom result - ninth - coming in Hajfell in Norway in March 2025.

A neuroscience graduate, this will be Major's second Winter Olympics after making his debut in Beijing in 2022, where he failed to finish his first run.

Quite simply Dave Ryding is Great Britain's most successful alpine skier.

He became the first Briton to win a World Cup race when he triumphed in Kitzbuhel slalom in 2022 and has six other World Cup podiums to his name.

He is still mixing it with the best and has recorded a top 10 finish in a World Cup race this season.

This will be his fifth Winter Olympics and he will retire after Milan-Cortina.

Laurie Taylor just missed out on a maiden World Cup podium when he finished fourth at this season's opening race in Levi.

He has two World Cup top 10s to his name and a further six top 20 finishes. He will be competing in his second Olympics after making his debut in Pyeongchang in 2018.

Taylor finished 26th in the men's slalom and was part of the team event, where GB came fifth.

Pendry was born in Derbyshire but moved to the Pyrenees when she was four years old as her parents started a mountain biking business.

She has been competing in biathlon since she was 13 and made her World Cup debut in 2024.

Pendry represented GB at the 2020 Youth Olympic Games, finishing 12th in the women's sprint.

Jefferies was born and brought up in the French Alps to British parents and made the decision to switch to compete for GB in 2025.

He won the world junior championship in 2022 and has recorded top 60 results on the World Cup circuit.

Outside of his sport, he is an accomplished guitarist. 

Brad Hall is the most successful British men’s bobsleigh pilot in World Cup history with 30 race medals and will pilot the two and four-man crews in Cortina as he targets a first Olympic medal. 

Hall led his team to Great Britain’s first World Championship four-man medal since 1939 when they won silver in St Moritz in 2023 before piloting the same crew to GB's first-ever European four-man title in Altenberg earlier that year. 

Last season, Hall guided GB to overall World Cup silver in the two-man and bronze in the four-man and combined disciplines while finishing sixth and fourth, respectively, this season. 

A serving lance corporal in the Royal Marines, brakeman Taylor Lawrence will partner Brad Hall in the two-man bobsleigh and make up part of the crew for the four-man event. 

Lawrence earned selection for the 2022 Beijing Games just three years after stepping into a bobsleigh for the first time. He helped the four-man crew to world silver and European gold in 2023 and has collected 25 World Cup medals. 

He arrives in Italy having missed some races at the start of this season because of a calf injury but on his return, won two-man bronze in the St Moritz World Cup race with Brad Hall in January. 

Content creator Greg Cackett runs online platform ‘The Brakeman’, which aims to bring people behind the scenes of elite bobsleigh, alongside his career as one of the most decorated British bobsleighers in World Cup history. 

A former sprinter who clocked a personal best of 10.24 seconds in the 100m before suffering injury problems, Cackett also tried his hand at track cycling in between competing at the Pyeongchang and Bejing Olympics. 

He will form part of the four-man team in Italy having won world silver and European gold in the event in 2023. 

Leon Greenwood had not even taken up bobsleigh when the last Olympics took place in Beijing but will make his Olympic debut in the four-man event in Cortina. 

The former police officer was selected to join Brad Hall’s crew after a talent identification day in 2022. A talented sprinter, Greenwood had pursued a career in athletics before injury cut it short. 

With several World Cup medals under his belt, he also helped the four-man team to European bronze in Lillehammer last year. 

Pilot Adele Nicoll will make history in Cortina as the first British woman to compete in the monobob at a Winter Olympics while she will also partner Ashleigh Nelson in the two-woman event. 

Competing in just her second World Cup event alongside Mica McNeill in 2022, Nicoll won silver in a two-woman event in Latvia - the first time that a British woman had won a bobsleigh World Cup medal for 13 years. 

A three-time British shotput champion, Nicoll splits her time between athletics and bobsleigh and will make her Olympic debut in Italy having travelled to Beijing in 2022 as a reserve, after which she started training to be a pilot and compete in the monobob. 

2020 Commonwealth gold medal-winner Ashleigh Nelson was a successful sprinter before turning to bobsleigh just two years ago. 

Nelson has won world and European championship medals in the 4x100m relay as well as European bronze in the 100m in 2014 and represented Team GB at Beijing 2008 and Tokyo 2020. 

Having tried bobsleigh for the first time in 2024, she has since competed alongside Adele Nicoll in the World Cup and at the World Championships in Lake Placid last year. 

A mechanical aircraft engineer in the Royal Air Force, Alex Cartagena’s introduction to sliding sports came in the military via skeleton. 

But he switched to bobsleigh for the 2021-22 season and had represented Great Britain 21 times before the end of the 2023-24 season. 

Cartagena’s World Cup debut came in 2024 while he was selected for the 2024 world championships but work commitments meant he was unable to participate. 

Kya Placide completes Team GB’s bobsleigh squad as the travelling reserve having quickly taken to bobsleigh, winning Europa Cup bronze with Adele Nicoll in her first ever race in Lillehammer just weeks after stepping into a bobsleigh on ice for the very first time. 

Placide’s best result came at the Lake Placid World Cup in 2024 when she took two-woman silver alongside Nicoll, who encouraged her to take up the sport. 

She started out as a sprinter and has previously represented Wales, winning 60m bronze at the Welsh Indoor Championships in 2023. 

This is James Clugnet's second Winter Olympics after making his debut in Beijing four years ago.

He is a sprint specialist and finished 40th in the men's sprint and helped his team home to 20th in the team sprint.

Outside of competing, he hosts a podcast with fellow cross country skier Mike Vermeulen called Skirous Problems.

Musgrave is in rarified company as he becomes one of very few Britons to compete at five Winter Olympics.

Nicknamed Muzzy, he finished seventh in 30km skiathlon in 2018, which is his best Winter Olympic result.

During his career, he has stood on the World Cup podium five times and just missed out on a World Championship medal in 2017, finishing fourth in the 50km. He was seventh in the 30km skiathlon at the 2025 World Championships.

Davies will be making his Winter Olympics debut in Milan-Cortina but was inspired after going along to watch the Vancouver Games in 2010 as they were close to where he lived.

Born in Canada, he is half British and switched to compete for Great Britain in 2022.

He is an exciting prospect with a number of top 20 World Cup finishes under his belt.

Pryce will be making her Winter Olympics debut in Milan-Cortina.

She was born in Canada but switched allegiance to Great Britain this season to become the first female cross country skier selected since 2018.

She studied nursing at Montana State University.

Bruce Mouat just missed out on gold on his Olympic debut in Beijing, having to settle for silver but he is back with his rink in Milan-Cortina. 

He heads into these Olympics as the reigning world champion, winning in Moose Jaw in Canada in 2025 to add to the 2023 world title and has won numerous European titles. 

He will also team up again with Jen Dodds in mixed curling. The 2021 world champions finished fourth in 2022 and will be looking for a podium finish this time around. 

Hardie has been part of Mouat’s successful rink, claiming silver at the 2022 Games. 

His cousin, Hammy McMillan Jr, is also in the team and he comes from curling stock with his uncle winning the world title in 1999. 

He has won the world championship twice, in 2023 and in 2025 and has four European titles to his name. 

Hammy McMillan Jr comes from a well-established curling family with his father, Hammy Snr, winning the world title in 1999. However, despite competing in three Winter Olympics, he never won a medal. 

His son achieved the accolade in Beijing when he won an Olympic silver medal. 

He was a world junior champion in 2013 and has won the senior world title twice and the European Championships four times. 

Bobby Lammie is the youngest member of Team Mouat but he has been with the rink as they became double world champions in 2023 and 2025. 

He claimed silver at the last Olympics, just pipped to gold after an extra end in the final, losing 5-4 to Sweden. 

He has also won four European championships. 

Kyle Waddell made his Olympic debut in 2018. 

He was in a rink skipped by Kyle Smith and they finished fifth overall, just missing out on the medal matches. 

He was not part of Team Mouat at the 2022 Games but he has been with them since then, being the alternate when they won two world titles in 2023 and 2025 and also two European Championships.

Jen Dodds is already an Olympic champion, winning gold on the final day of competition with Eve Muirhead’s rink in Beijing. 

Muirhead has retired and will be Team GB chef de mission in Milan-Cortina but Dodds is now part of Team Morrison, who have won bronze and silver at the last two European Championships. 

Dodds will also team up with Bruce Mouat in the mixed curling, aiming to win a medal after losing in the bronze medal match four years ago.  

Rebecca Morrison leads a new-look women’s team after Eve Muirhead’s rink won the gold medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics. 

Morrison has won three European Championship medals, bronze in 2022 and 2024 and a silver in 2025.  

The team qualified for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Games by finishing sixth at the World Championships. 

Sophie Jackson is making her Olympic debut in Italy alongside most other members of Team Morrison. 

She won mixed world bronze in 2016, was a World Junior silver medallist in 2017,  and is a three-time European medallist. 

Team Morrison qualified for the Olympic Games but finishing sixth at the 2025 World Championships. 

Sophie Sinclair may be making her Olympic debut in Milan-Cortina but she has plenty of top level curling experience. 

She has competed at six World Championships and has a number of European Championships under her belt too. 

She was named in the World Women’s All-Star team in 2025 after helping Scotland finish sixth to qualify an Olympics berth for Great Britain. 

Fay Henderson is the youngest member of Team Morrison at just 24 years old. 

She won gold at the World Junior Curling Championships in 2023 and will be the alternate for the 2026 Winter Olympics. 

Born in the USA to Canadian parents, Fear’s family moved to London when she was one, and she learned to skate near her primary school in Notting Hill. 

Since teaming up with Lewis Gibson in 2016, the pair have had a sensational rise over the last decade to become one of the best ice dancing teams in the world. 

They won Britain’s first global medal for 40 years in 2025 and have finished on the podium in each of the previous four European Championships. 

Gibson only took up ice skating aged 11 and competed in men’s singles until partnering with Lilah Fear when he was 21. 

They earned a top 10 place in ice dance on their Olympic debut in Beijing and have since won bronze at the 2025 World Championships. 

Fear and Gibson won bronze at the recent 2026 European Championships in Sheffield, where he made an early error in the free dance after they had recorded a season-best score in the rhythm dance.

The youngest member of Team GB’s figure skating squad, Bekker will partner with James Hernandez in the ice dance competition. 

Only 20, she is already a three-time silver medallist in the British Championships having won gold at junior level. 

She and Hernandez finished an eye-catching 11th place at the recent European Championships thanks to a season-best score in ice dance. 

Hernandez, who took up skating aged four, has partnered with Bekker in ice dance since 2021. 

While they have usually played second fiddle to Fear and Gibson in domestic championships, they have emerged as a force on their own this season. 

They will skate to music from the Romeo and Juliet opera in the free dance, following a more upbeat George Michael medley in the rhythm section. 

Born to a Ukrainian father and English mother, both of whom were also professional skaters, Vaipan-Law has skated since the age of six. 

She previously competed in singles, but following a knee injury in 2018 has partnered with Luke Digby in the pairs competition. 

They finished fifth at the 2025 European Championships and were in contention for a medal in 2026, before Vaipan-Law suffered a fall in the free skate. 

Digby was a flower boy at the 2012 European Championships in Sheffield. Fourteen years later, he was competing on the ice and will skate at the Olympics. 

He has skated since the age of six and initially entered competition in the singles, before partnering with Anatasia Vaipan-Law in 2018. 

Digby comes from an accomplished sporting family – his brother Paul is a professional footballer with Dundee in the Scottish Premier League. 

Appleby competed in the individual men’s event at the recent European Championships, finishing 24th. 

In Milan, he will form part of the GB squad in the team event – where representatives in men’s, women’s, pairs and ice dance compete to earn points for their country. 

It is the first time that Team GB have entered the team event since its Olympic debut at Sochi 2014. 

British champion in the women’s singles, Spours has had to fight back after surgery on a spinal injury she suffered last March. 

She has already confirmed she will retire from the sport later this year, admitting that she has struggled with her mental health and the limitations on her body following surgery. 

Spours finished 23rd at the recent European Championships, having come ninth in 2025. 

Kirsty Muir was the youngest member of Team GB at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics but heads into the Milan-Cortina Games as a serious medal contender.

The two-time X Games medallist won her first World Cup gold medal in March 2025 at her first competition back after nearly a year off snow following knee and shoulder surgeries.

A Youth Olympic silver medallist in 2020, Muir has added further World Cup golds this season in both her disciplines, big air and slopestyle.

She won X Games gold in slopestyle and silver in big air at the recent X Games.

Chris McCormick will make his Olympic debut at Milan-Cortina, competing in the freeski slopestyle and big air, having missed out on qualifying for Beijing four years ago.

He started skiing as a six-year-old at his local dry slope near Glasgow, and has recorded multiple top-20 finishes on the World Cup circuit.

Away from the slopes, he is studying for a degree in mathematics and physics at the Open University.

Zoe Atkin was crowned halfpipe world champion in 2025 to complete her set of a medal of every colour at World Championship level.

She is an X Games gold medallist and three-time World Cup gold medallist, and last season was awarded the Crystal Globe overall World Cup title.

Atkin and her older sister Izzy - Team GB’s 2018 slopestyle bronze medallist - were born in the United States to a British father and Malaysian mother, and when she is not skiing Atkin is studying symbolic systems at Stanford University.

Gus Kenworthy won Olympic slopestyle silver for the United States in 2014 but in 2019 switched allegiance to Great Britain, as he was born in Chelmsford before moving Stateside aged two.

He is a multiple X Games, World Championship and World Cup medallist and though he retired after the 2022 Olympics, announced his comeback in 2025 and will compete in the halfpipe.

At the 2018 Olympics, Kenworthy became the first openly gay man to compete for the US at a Winter Games - having publicly come out three years earlier - and kissed his then boyfriend on live television, a moment lauded as significant for the visibility of LGBTQ+ athletes.

Liam Richards will make his Olympic debut competing in the halfpipe at Milan-Cortina, realising a lifelong dream that started when he learned to ski as a two-year-old.

He showed promise from an early age, backflipping for the first time aged seven while living with his family in Auckland.

A former New Zealand junior champion, he joined the British squad in 2024 and in December recorded his first top-10 World Cup finish in Copper.

A former Alpine skier on the British squad, Ollie Davies switched to ski cross as a teenager and was crowned junior world champion in 2019.

Two years later, he finished fourth at the senior World Championships, becoming the first British athlete to reach a Big Final in the sport, and made his Olympic debut in Beijing in 2022.

In 2023, he achieved his first World Cup podium with a silver medal in Reiteralm.

Makayla Gerken Schofield made her Olympic debut at Beijing 2022 and sealed Team GB’s best-ever moguls finish with her eighth position.

She recorded a first World Cup podium in the dual moguls in 2023, and is a veteran of five World Championships. 

Both her elder siblings, twins Thomas and Leonie, represented Great Britain in moguls skiing, with Leonie also competing at the Beijing Olympics four years ago.

Born to a French father and a British mother, Mateo Jeannesson started as an Alpine skier before switching to freestyle as a teenager, deciding to focus solely on moguls at 14.

He won a first Europa Cup in 2022 and a first World Cup top-20 finish the following year, and was crowned junior world champion in 2024.

His best World Cup finish is sixth, and he will make his Olympic debut at Milan-Cortina.

Mia Brookes was too young to compete at the 2022 Winter Olympics but will make her debut in Milan-Cortina as one of the favourites for gold in both her events - slopestyle and big air.

In 2023, aged just 16 years and 39 days, she became the sport’s youngest world champion with her slopestyle gold in Georgia, a victory sealed by landing the first Cab 1440 double grab in a women's event.

Widely seen as a generational talent, Brookes is a four-time World Cup gold medallist across her disciplines and an X Games slopestyle gold medallist.

Maisie Hill was taught to snowboard as an eight-year-old by her father, learning the ropes on a hill behind their house in Cheltenham.

She has recorded several top-10 World Cup finishes in both slopestyle and big air, a feat made all the more remarkable after a training crash in 2023.

Hill was left with a broken spine, ribs and pelvis, a fractured lung, bleed on the brain and a lacerated liver after crashing into a wall of ice in Switzerland.

Txema Mazet-Brown learned to ski in the French Alps before moving to New Zealand when he was three, where he first picked up a snowboard at the age of nine.

Representing the Kiwis, he has twice won the big air crown at the European Cup and was junior world champion in the event in 2024.

He switched to represent Great Britain - the home country of his mother - before the 2024-25 season and has achieved two top-10 big air World Cup finishes.

Charlotte Bankes grew up in France and represented the nation at two Winter Olympics before switching to Great Britain, the country of her birth, in 2019.

In 2021, she became Britain’s first snowboarding world champion and has won the snowboard cross Crystal Globe - overall World Cup title - on two occasions.

In 2023, she won the mixed team world title with Huw Nightingale and after a 2024-25 season cut short by a broken collarbone, Bankes heads to her fourth Winter Olympics with two World Cup podiums under her belt this season.

Huw Nightingale made his Olympic debut four years ago in Beijing, finishing 30th in the individual snowboard cross and sixth in the mixed team event with Charlotte Bankes.

In 2023, he and Bankes won the mixed team World Championship title, the first British pair to do so.

In December, they added a World Cup gold medal to their haul with mixed team victory in Cervinia, Italy.

Matt Weston arrives in Cortina as one of Team GB’s big medal hopes after becoming the first British man to win three overall skeleton gold medals as he defended his World Cup title for a second successive season in January. 

He also became the first British man in 16 years to win the overall World Cup crown when he claimed the eight-race title in March 2024, successfully defending that title in 2025 and 2026. 

And Weston is also the reigning world champion, sealing his second crown in Lake Placid in March 2025 to become Britain’s first multiple world champion. 

If it was not for Matt Weston, Marcus Wyatt may well be the current skeleton world champion and Overall World Cup gold medal winner, finishing second to his compatriot in both of those competitions. 

He won the European title in 2024 and claimed GB’s first men's World Cup medal since 2013 when he won bronze in Sigulda in November 2020. 

Wyatt played American Football before turning to skeleton and has also enjoyed success in the team event alongside Amelia Coltman and Tabby Stoecker, winning a World Cup gold medal with each last season. 

Amelia Coltman won European bronze in 2024, Britain’s first European women’s medal since 2015, and finished the most recent season ranked fourth in the world. 

Her first World Cup gold came in PyeongChang in November 2024 which she followed up with bronze in February 2025 while she also has a team gold World Cup medal with Marcus Wyatt and bronze with Matt Weston. 

Coltman finished 10th in the Overall World Cup standings in January and will make her Olympic debut in Cortina. 

Tabby Stoecker became the first British woman to win an overall skeleton World Cup medal for more than a decade when she finished sixth in the final race of the 2025-26 season to seal the bronze medal. 

Stoecker - a former trapeze artist - recorded five top-six finishes including a European Championship silver in St Moritz in a race doubling up as a World Cup event. 

She will make her Olympic debut in Cortina having also won World Cup gold in the team event alongside Marcus Wyatt. 

Freya Tarbit enjoyed a breakthrough season in 2024-25, finishing eighth overall with a maiden World Cup win in Pyeongchang and a bronze in Yangqing. 

Tarbit had taken an interest in skeleton from the age of 14 but, a talented long jumper, she had to put it off for a year after pulling her hamstring. 

Her preparations for the Games have been promising with two top-10 finishes in two of the first four events of the season. 

Following a reduced budget for British speed skating, Treacy will be their sole representative in short track in Milan. 

He competed in the 1,000m in Beijing four years ago, and will go in the 500m and 1,500m as well this time around. 

While not expected to win an Olympic medal, 2026 will still be a year to remember for Treacy – he is set to marry his partner, Canadian figure skater Renata Wong, later this year. 

After becoming the first female skater to represent Team GB in long track for 40 years at Beijing 2022, Smeding returns four years later for another Olympic tilt. 

Since then she has struggled with a hip injury and moved her training base from Netherlands to Canada, but is back to fitness for Milan. 

She will race over the 1,000m and 1,500m distances, as she did four years ago.