Kirsty Muir secures historic World Cup slopestyle and overall titles
Kirsty Muir has become the first British woman to win the freeski slopestyle and overall park and pipe World Cup titles after finishing second in Saturday’s season finale in Switzerland.
The 21-year-old Scot secured a score of 75.54 in Silvaplana to claim her third consecutive podium of the 2025-26 campaign.
She finished just behind home favourite and Olympic bronze medallist Sarah Hofflin, who took the event victory with a score of 80.07.
However, the Aberdonian’s runner-up placement was more than enough to clinch the slopestyle Crystal Globe with a dominant season total of 280 points.
Record-breaking season points tally
The X Games champion finished a comfortable 69 points ahead of Canadian runner-up Elena Gaskell in the final slopestyle standings.
Alongside a third-place ranking in the big air discipline, the trailblazing skier amassed a combined overall score of 470 points.
This impressive tally allowed her to comfortably defeat closest challenger Naomi Urness by a commanding 78-point margin.
These landmark achievements follow agonizing near-misses at last month’s Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina, where she placed fourth in two separate events.
Olympic heartbreak fuels future ambition
Speaking after her recent podium near-misses, the highly-rated freeskier insisted those results only strengthened her resolve to dominate the sport.
“I am really excited to go and try and learn some new tricks. I am excited to see where I can push myself and where I can push the sport,” she said.
“For the next two years I will go and do everything that I would like to do and forget about the Olympics, and then when it comes round to qualification again I will get stuck in.”
