Dave Ryding and Mia Brookes headline Team GB's 20-strong snowsport squad for the Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina, which runs from 6 to 22 February 2026. Ryding, 39, will compete in his fifth and final Games after announcing his retirement, while Brookes, who became the youngest snowboarding world champion at 16, makes her Olympic debut.
Ryding said: "I am looking forward to performing on the biggest stage in front of a central European crowd for the first time in my Olympic career and I can't wait to get out there and into the action." He will be joined in the slalom by Billy Major and Laurie Taylor. Reflecting on his career, Ryding added: "I've never taken for granted what it means to represent my country and to have the chance to compete for Great Britain at an Olympic Games for the fifth time is something I could only have dreamed of when I went to my first Games back in 2010."
Charlotte Bankes, the 2021 snowboard cross world champion, will compete in her fourth Olympics in both individual and team events. She and Huw Nightingale won a mixed team world title together. Great Britain's best Olympic snowsport performance came at PyeongChang 2018, where Izzy Atkin won bronze in ski slopestyle and Billy Morgan took bronze in the inaugural big air competition.
Vicky Gosling, GB Snowsport chief executive, said: "Over the past four years, our skiers and snowboarders have shown they're capable of mixing it with the very best in the world, and the squad that's heading out for these Games is a real reflection of the talent, grit, and will to win that makes British sport so special." The squad also includes Txema Mazet-Brown in freestyle snowboard slopestyle and big air.
