Record Results for Team GB Skiers and Snowboarders at Sochi 2014

What a great few weeks that was for Team GB…!

The Chaletline team almost lost our voices cheering our team on.  The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics turned out to be the most successful ever for British skiers and snowboarders.

Six in the Top 10  

The final total was an Olympic Bronze medal for Jenny Jones in Ladies Snowboard Slopestyle, six top ten finishes, another five top 20 finishes and three more who finished in the top 30.

Freestyle paves the way

The introduction of Slopestyle was crucial to this success, with 5th for James Woods  and 7th for Katie Summerhayes.  Snowboard Cross athlete Zoe Gillings finished 9th and Alpine skiers Chemmy Alcott and Dave Ryding both finished with top 20 positions.

Andrew Musgrave also became the first ever British Cross Country skier to finish in the top 30 at an Olympic Games.

Zoe Gillings 9th in Snowboard Cross

On to PyeonChang…

The freestyle disciplines will gain extra funding due to these great results so hopefully Team GB can build to and come the next Games, in South Korea in 2018, we will have even more athletes challenging for medals.

British skiers and snowboarders –  Sochi 2014 results:

Jenny Jones –  Snowboard Slopestyle – Bronze medal (3^rd/23 competitors)
James Woods – Ski Slopestyle – 5^th/ 32 competitors
Jamie Nicholls – Snowboard Slopestyle – 6^th/ 29 competitors
Katie Summerhayes – Ski Slopestyle – 7^th/ 22 competitors
Zoe Gillings – Snowboard Cross – 9^th / 24 competitors
Billy Morgan – Snowboard Slopestyle – 10^th/ 29 competitors
Dave Ryding – Men’s Slalom – 17^th / 43 competitors
Murray Buchan – Ski Halfpipe – 17^th / 28 competitors
Aimee Fuller – Snowboard Slopestyle – 17^th / 20 competitors
Emma Lonsdale – Ski Halfpipe – 18^th/ 23 competitors
Chemmy Alcott – Women’s Downhill – 19^th/ 42 competitors
Chemmy Alcott – Women’s Super G – 23^rd / 50 competitors
James Machon – Ski Halfpipe – 23^rd/ 28 competitors
Andrew Musgrave – Cross Country: Individual Sprint Free – 29^th/ 85 competitors
Ben Kilner – Snowboard Halfpipe – 34th / 39 competitors
Andrew Young – Cross Country: 15km Classic – 37th / 92 competitors
Dom Harington – Snowboard Halfpipe – 38th/ 39 competitors
Andrew Young – Individual Sprint Free – 42nd/ 85 competitors
Posy Musgrave – Cross Country: Individual Sprint Free – 42nd / 67 competitors
Andrew Musgrave – 15km Classic – 44^th/ 92 competitors
Andrew Musgrave – 50km Mass Start – 53^rd/ 60 competitors
Callum Smith – Cross Country: Individual Sprint Free – 62^nd/ 85 competitors
Posy Musgrave – 10km Classic – 66th/ 76 competitors
Callum Smith – 15km Classic – 67^th/ 92 competitors

Article by Iain Martin