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February 20, 2025 38 mins
Team GB freestyle skier Zoe Atkin has won multiple medals at the X-Games, World Cup and World Championships and is a hot prospect for a podium at next year's Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.

This season the 21-year-old has three World Cup podiums in five competitions, including a win and two second place finishes in her last three events. She will next be in action at next month’s Freestyle World Championships in St Moritz.

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SHOW NOTES
Listen to Iain’s interview with BBC Ski Sunday presenter Chemmy Alcott, GB Snowsport CEO Vicky Gosling and former Erna Low MD Joanna Yellowlees-Bound
Zoe did her autumn training in Kitzsteinhorn, Austria (3:30)
Why half-pipe? (5:30)
Training with your competitors (10:00)
Strategy in competition (11:30)
Bringing new tricks into competition (13:00)
Strength and conditioning training (15:30)
Zoe won the half-pipe at the X-Games in 2023 (16:30)
Listen to Iain’s interview with refer Kirsty Muir (18:00)
Zoe recorded back-to-back X-Games podiums with silver in 2024
Listen to Iain’s interview with Vicky Gosling, CEO of GB Snowsport (19:00)
Zoe finished 9th in the half pipe at Beijing 2022 (19:00)
The challenges of testing during the Games (21:00)
Zoe’s sister is Izzy Atkin, who was Britain’s first skier to win a medal at the Olympics (22:30)
Travels after the Winter Olympics (24:15)
Zoe was brought up in Maine and skied from the age of two (25:00)
Her base in now Park City, Utah (26:00)
Zoe is now studying at Stanford University (27:30)
Zoe finished on the podium for six consecutive events after Beijing (29:30)
The plan for winter 24/25 (33:00)

SELECTED RESULTS: FIS WORLD CUP

2025 Women's Freeski Halfpipe, Calgary – 2nd
2025 Women's Freeski Halfpipe, Aspen – 1st
2024 Women's Freeski Halfpipe, Copper Mountain - 3rd
2023 World Championships Women's Ski Superpipe - 2nd
2021 World Championships Women's Ski Superpipe - 3rd
2019 Women's Freeski Halfpipe, Copper Mountain - 1st (16 years old) 

SELECTED RESULTS: X-GAMES
 
2024 Women's Ski Superpipe – 4th 
2024 Women's Ski Superpipe - 2nd
2023 Women's Ski Superpipe - 1st
2020 Women's Ski Superpipe - 5th

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