Stunning Start to the Season for Charlie Raposo

British alpine junior team athlete, Charlie Raposo, has got his first season as a FIS athlete off to an amazing start, with some fantastic results in Cardrona-Treble Cone, New Zealand.

Charlie, who is currently training and completing his studies at Green Mountain Valley School, USA, finished in 15^th place with 58.28 FIS points in the FIS Giant Slalom on 4^th August.  This is an outstanding result for any junior 1 athlete, made even more special as it was only his 3^rd race of the season.  Speaking after the race, Charlie said:

"I am so pumped about the result I got and it puts me in a great place coming into the Northern Hemisphere winter, but that result is only the third out of many to come so I am going right back to training. I'm going to work on making the turns even faster and looking to lower those points and most of all have a great time doing it. I love being in FIS now, racing against the "big guns" and the mental tactics you take into a FIS race I enjoy much more than the tactics in a children's race."

In addition to this great achievement all of Charlie's other result from the Cardrona-Treble Cone were also fantastic:

• FIS GS on 1^st August - 31^st (80.05 points)
• FIS SL on 2^nd August - 20^th (66.94 points)
• FIS SL on 5^th August - 13^th (95.05 points)

A video of Charlie's sub-60 GS race can be found by clicking here.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!