Charlotte Bankes

2018–2022: Competing for Great Britain In November 2018, Bankes won her first competition for Great Britain in a Europa Cup event in Austria. The following month, she achieved her first World Cup podium finish for Great Britain at a race in Cervinia, where she narrowly finished ahead of her former French team-mate Nelly Moenne-Loccoz to secure third place. In January 2019, Bankes stated that she was able to "train properly" again following her previous pelvic injury.

Two years later, she went one better at the 2021 World Championships in Sweden when she secured a gold medal in the snowboard cross. She finished 0.08 seconds ahead of second-placed Michela Moioli of Italy to become a world champion for the first time. Her victory was also the first ever by a British snowboarder at a FIS Snowboard World Championships. In the 2020–21 World Cup, Bankes triumphed in Bakuriani to claim her first victory in a World Cup race since 2018.

In the 2021–22 World Cup season, Bankes claimed snowboard cross titles in Montafon, Krasnoyarsk (x2), Reiteralm and Veysonnaz. In the 2022 Winter Olympics, she was eliminated from the snowboard cross at the quarter-finals stage. She qualified for the quarter-finals with the second fastest time, but a tactical misjudgment in her next race left her out of position. She also competed in the mixed team event with Huw Nightingale, the pairing finished in sixth place.

2022–present: Olympic mixed team champion In the 2022–23 World Cup season, Bankes achieved victories at Cervinia, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Sierra Nevada (x2), Veysonnaz and Mont-Sainte-Anne. She finished the series as the overall champion and won her second Crystal Globe trophy, 73 points ahead of French runner-up Chloé Trespeuch. At the World Championships, she was unable to retain her individual world title, her defence ending following a crash in the first heat. In the team race, Bankes and Nightingale won Great Britain's first ever world title in the event. Nightingale finished his race 0.07 seconds behind the leader. Bankes then made up the deficit and ended her race 0.88 seconds ahead of the Austrians in second to claim the win.

Bankes again partnered with Nightingale to secure Great Britain's first ever mixed team World Cup triumph after securing victory in Les Deux Alpes. Bankes finished in overall second position for the individual snowboard cross in the 2023–24 World Cup. Sierra Nevada, Cortina d'Ampezzo and back-to-back events in Mont-Sainte-Anne. She finished the competition 35 points behind Trespeuch, unable to recover the potential points that she lost from her slow start in the series.

In the 2024–25 World Cup, Bankes achieved back-to-back victories in Beidahu, as well as securing wins in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Erzurum and Gudauri. With three races in the World Cup remaining, she held a 57-point advantage over second-placed French competitor Léa Casta in the overall standings. She then raced at the World Championships in Engadin and finished with a silver medal in the individual competition, where she was beaten in a photo finish by Moioli. In the mixed team competition, Bankes and Nightingale failed to progress past the quarter-finals stage. Her season was cut short the following month after she broke her collarbone in training. The injury left her unable to compete in the two remaining World Cup races of the season, and Casta went on to win the Crystal Globe trophy.

Bankes underwent two surgeries following her collarbone injury. In December 2025, she returned to competition in the World Cup, suffering a quarter-finals exit in the competition in Cervinia, before winning a gold medal alongside Nightingale in the mixed team event. The following month, she won a further gold medal at the World Cup event in Dongbeiya. Competing at her fourth Olympics, Bankes was eliminated at the quarter-finals stage of the women's snowboard cross at Livigno Snow Park in Italy. She finished ninth in the opening round, before progressing through her next heat, but a slow start cost her in the quarter-finals as she finished fourth with only the top two advancing to the semi-finals. A frustrated Bankes said she had found the track difficult all week. Along with skeleton racer Matt Weston, Bankes was named as the flagbearer for Great Britain at the Games' closing ceremony.

In March, Bankes returned to the World Cup circuit with a quarter-finals exit in Erzurum before winning a second race at the venue two days later, when she beat Casta in a photo finish. Later that month, a third-place finish in Montafon coupled with a seventh-place finish for Casta moved Bankes to the top of the overall standings with one race remaining. At the final race of the series in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Bankes claimed her 28th career World Cup victory to win the series overall and secure the Crystal Globe trophy for a third time.

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