Five to watch on skis, boards, skates and sleds as Britain aims for record achievement

great britain The Winter Olympics stand on the brink of history as the 100-day milestone approaches before the Games in February match and Cortina d’Ampezzo.

A stellar 2025 season delivered World Cup medals on skis, snowboards, sleds and skates, and gives the country a great chance to match or surpass its previous best winter medal tally of five in both 2014 and 2018.

Amidst the huge field of candidates available, here the PA news agency has chosen the five best hopes of making history in the Italian Alps.

mia brooks

Brooks made history in 2023 by becoming the youngest snowboarder world title winner at the age of 16. Cheshire The slopestyle star, who won the world junior title last year, also became the first woman to achieve a CAB 1440 in the competition. Having also won the Big Air World Cup, Brooks has high medal hopes in Milan.

zoe atkin

Halfpipe star Atkin is a good bet to emulate her older sister Izzy, who became Britain’s first Olympic medalist by winning bronze in skiing. pyeongchang In 2018. Atkin, 22, already has an X Games gold medal and will head to Milan as the reigning world ski-halfpipe champion after winning in Engadin, Switzerland in March.

bruce mouat

Mouat’s men’s curling team wins two world titles after nearly missing out Beijing In 2022, when Sweden’s highly experienced Niklas Edin defeated him and won the gold medal. The 31-year-old has led her team to the top of the world rankings and is also ranked No. 1 in mixed doubles with teammate and Beijing gold medalist Jennifer Dodds.

brad hall

Britain’s hopes of a bobsleigh medal to match the retrospective bronze awarded to John Jackson after Sochi 2014 have never looked brighter, as Hall led his two- and four-man squads to multiple World Cup medals in 2025, including two four-man golds, underlining their consistent ability to beat the best on the biggest stage.

Lilah Fear and Louise Gibson

Fear and Gibson achieved a major breakthrough in 2025 after winning bronze medals at the World Championships in Boston in March, the first British ice dancers to do so since Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean in 1984. Britain hasn’t had a better chance for two skaters to return to the Olympic podium since the famous Bolero.