Freestyle skier Zoe Atkin won bronze in the women’s halfpipe to secure Great Britain’s fifth medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics, equalling the team’s record-best haul.
The 23-year-old had already secured a medal when she dropped into the pipe for her final run and, with the pressure off, improved her score to 92.50 – just half a point shy of silver medal position.
China’s global superstar Eileen Gu won gold, her first of these Games after two silvers, with 94.75, while compatriot Li Fanghui took silver.
In winning bronze, Atkin matches the achievement of her sister Izzy, who won Team GB’s first Olympic medal on skis with slopestyle bronze in Pyeongchang eight years ago.
“I am so happy. I’ve been looking forward to this for at least the past four years and it was so overwhelming with the crowd and knowing it was the Olympics – so many emotions,” she told BBC Sport.
“I was so stressed out and I was crying and to put two runs down felt so good and the cherry on top is getting on the Olympic podium.
“It means so much to me and I’ve literally dreamed about this moment since watching my sister win her bronze in 2018, so to back her up eight years later feels so good and to have her supporting me here it feels full circle. I am so stoked.”
With five medals secured – three golds, one silver and now a bronze – Team GB have matched the record hauls they achieved in Sochi in 2014 and the 2018 Games in South Korea.
But this was the team’s most successful Winter Olympics the moment Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale secured the second of those golds in the mixed team snowboard cross exactly a week ago.
Never before had Great Britain won more than one gold at a single Winter Games.