Charlotte Bankes received silver within the girls’s snowboard cross as Nice Britain earned their first podium on the Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships in Switzerland.
Bankes recovered from an early setback within the last to problem Michela Moioli, however settled for a second place after being overhauled by the Italian in a photograph end.
France’s Julia Pereira de Sousa took third place within the occasion in Engadin.
It’s the 29-year-old’s first particular person World Championships medal since a 2021 gold and provides to the silver she received in Utah in 2019 and the crew gold with Huw Nightingale in Bakuriani in 2023.
“We knew our techniques at this time, we knew financial institution three was vital to generate the pace for the underside, and that I needed to be affected person and deal with myself,” stated Bankes, who completed first in her quarter-final and semi-final.
“Sadly, within the last, I am a bit pissed off with my begin, however I did not panic, targeted on constructing pace, got here again afterwards and was glad to be within the battle till the end.
“That was a powerful last, Michela actually deserves it, and I am glad that I pushed her to the end.”
Bankes will subsequent be motion within the crew snowboard cross competitors with Nightingale on Saturday.
In a while Friday, Britain’s Mia Brookes positioned fifth within the girls’s large air competitors.
Japan’s Kokomo Murase was topped world champion, with compatriots Reira Iwabuchi and Mari Fukada finishing a podium sweep.
