Great Britain’s Zoe Atkin has won gold at the FIS Snowboard, Freestyle, and Freeski World Championships St. Moritz Engadin 2025. Competing in the Corvatsch halfpipe on Sunday amid perfect weather conditions she won after scoring 93.50 in her second run.
“This means everything to me,” she said.
China’s Li Fanghui claimed silver after trailing Atkin by just 0.50 points on 93.00 in her second run. Canada’s Cassie Sharpe secured bronze on 88.00.
Atkin’s gold medal campaign did not start well after she fell in her first run and posted a score of just 18.75.
But the 22-year-old did not disappoint when she dropped into the pipe for her last attempt at gold. Atkin began her second run with a left 540 mute, then a right 720 leading tailgrab, a switch left 720 Japan, a left alley-oop flatspin 540 mute, then a right alley-oop 360 leading Japan, and finished with a switch right 720 leading tailgrab.
Li was the last skier behind Atkin and managed to improve on her first run score of 90.25, but it was not enough to take the lead.
Atkin’s victory on Sunday follows her second place finish at the 2023 World Championships and her bronze medal at the 2021 edition.
“This season I was like, ‘you know, I’m tired of this, I want to go for the gold’. So I put a lot of work in this season, tried to put my new trick in there,” Atkin said, adding, “I had a lot of mental blocks so I’m really proud of myself for working through that. Then to be able to land it in my second run, with all the pressure on – oh my God – and to become World Champion, it means so much to me.”
Sunday’s battle between Atkin and Li was a fitting end to a season in which the pair shared the women’s halfpipe Crystal Globe in Calgary (CAN) in February in a World Cup first.
Atkin and Li tied for the season trophy for the first time in FIS Freeski World Cup history after both skiers finished with an identical World Cup results list of one victory, two second place finishes, and a fifth place finish.
