4th June 2025
Britain will probably be represented by 21 athletes in Cross-Nation competitions within the coming season following affirmation of squad picks for 2025/26. NEW
With the Milan-Cortina Olympic Winter Video games on the horizon, James Clugnet, Joe Davies, Gabriel Gledhill, Andrew Musgrave, and Andrew Younger will kind a five-athlete World Cup squad.
They are going to be coaching and competing once more this season alongside worldwide athletes with the help of Staff Aker Daehlie in a personal staff arrange.
Musgrave will probably be particularly trying to construct on his World Cup success of final season the place he received bronze in Toblach on the Tour de Ski.
He achieved an extra 4 high 10 positions on the highest degree, together with a sixth and seventh place end on the World Ski Championships in Trondheim in Norway final March.
Andrew Musgrave at Seefeld World Championships. Picture © PlanetSKI.
Two returning members of the Continental Cup squad, Beinn Horsfall and Tabitha Williams, will probably be joined by Anna Pryce, with the 23-year-old transferring to the British line-up having beforehand educated and competed as a part of the Canadian system.
Seven skiers will kind an expanded Efficiency squad, with long-standing British staff members being joined by first-time chosen William Hughes.
Ewan McAdam and Elke Hammerstein have been promoted from final season’s Junior squad, the latter additionally having stepped as much as compete within the U23 relay race (alongside Williams and Gledhill) on the World Junior & U23 Ski Championships, regardless of being within the Junior age class, the place the U23 combined relay staff achieved a powerful High 10 consequence.
Returning members of the Junior Squad embody Elspeth Cruickshank, Sophie Forth and Rasmus Ipsen who competed on the European Youth Olympic Pageant in February.
They are going to be joined by newly chosen Haakon Tveit and new recruits Rufus Hinks and Charlie Williams whose choice is pending a profitable nation switch from the USA and Canada respectively.
Lewis Briscall and Jack Somerset, in the meantime, have been invited to coach with the Efficiency and Junior squads respectively, as non-squad athletes.
The 21 athletes chosen mark the most important squad choice for British Cross-Nation athletes in recent times.
It comes on the again of a sequence of extremely encouraging performances throughout the World Cup, World Championships, and World Junior & U23 Championships final season, because the staff gears up for the ultimate season of racing within the Milan-Cortina Olympic cycle.
“This yr’s Cross-Nation squad is a very robust unit that we are able to rightly anticipate to see massive issues from coming into the brand new season,” mentioned the GB Snowsport Efficiency Director, Kearnan Myall.
“Final yr noticed some spectacular outcomes and performances throughout the board, and we all know that this group of athletes and the staff round them will probably be pushing themselves onerous to go one higher this yr.
“Congratulations to each athlete chosen throughout the 4 squads introduced at present; their choice is testomony to the onerous work, dedication, and expertise that has acquired them so far.”
The squads will probably be spending the approaching months in coaching camps throughout Europe and North America together with the normal European curler ski racing competitions, earlier than the primary Cross-Nation races of the 2025/26 season get underway, together with the World Cup opener in Ruka, Finland on the finish of November.
Full Squad picks:
World Cup Squad
James ClugnetJoe DaviesGabriel GledhillAndrew MusgraveAndrew Younger
Continental Cup Squad
Beinn HorsfallAnna Pryce (new choice following change of nation)Tabitha Williams
Efficiency Squad
Cameron CruickshankThomas DuncanLogan DuncanElke HammersteinWilliam Hughes (new choice)Ewan McAdamCatherine Stow
Junior Squad
Elspeth CruickshankSophie ForthRufus Hinks (new choice following change of nation)Rasmus IpsenHaakon Tveit (new choice)Charlie Williams (new choice following change of nation)
Non-Squad Coaching Invites
Lewis Briscall (invited to coach with Junior squad)Jack Somerset (invited to coach with Efficiency squad)
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