Snowboarder Mia Brookes, 16, makes GB history with slopestyle world title

A 16-year-old British snowboarder, who was too young to compete at last year’s Winter Olympics, has made history by winning her country’s first ever snowboard slopestyle world title with an extraordinary display of trickery and poise.

Mia Brookes, who learned to snowboard at 18 months while travelling around Europe in her family’s motorhome, earned victory in style as she became the first woman to ever perform a CAB 1440 double grab in competition on her winning run.

The extraordinarily difficult trick, which involves taking off backwards before making four rotations in the air while also grabbing the board twice, helped her score 91.38 in her second run in Bakuriani, Georgia.

That put her ahead of reigning Olympic champion Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, who took silver with her first run total of 88.78, while Onitsuka Miyabi of Japan completed the podium in third with 83.05.

The FIRST EVER 1440 trick landed by a woman. Mia Brookes did it.She's 16. And one of our own ✨