The Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games have been the most successful Games to date for British skiers and snowboarders with an Olympic Bronze medal for Jenny Jones in Ladies Snowboard Slopestyle, five top ten finishes, (six including Jenny Jones), and a further five more athletes finishing in the top 20 and three in the top 30.

The introduction of Ski and Snowboard Slopestyle and Ski Halfpipe have played a major part in this success, as has Snowboard Cross athlete Zoe Gillings who finished in 9th and Alpine skiers Chemmy Alcott and Dave Ryding who both finished with impressive top 20 positions.  Further positive results came via the Cross Country skiers with Andrew Musgrave finishing in the top 30 in a field of 85 and Posy Musgrave becoming the highest placed female British Cross Country skier ever at a Winter Olympics.

British Ski and Snowboard Chief Executive David Edwards said of the success: “The results of our skiers and snowboarders in Sochi are a massive achievement and a huge milestone for competitive snowsports in Great Britain. Our 14 top 30 finishes, six of which were top 10 finishes, shows the strength we now have across all disciplines, and to come away with a bronze medal from one of our most experienced snowboarders, Jenny Jones, was the icing on the cake.

“The Games has proved the success of our Park and Pipe programme with five of our six top 10s coming in the Ski and Snowboard Slopestyle events. We are also delighted with the 9^th position for third time Olympian Zoe Gillings, two top 20s from our Alpine skiers and record breaking results from our Cross Country team.

“We will now be reviewing the successes of the last four years and consulting with all the snowsport disciplines to build plans and programmes with the goal of achieving regular and consistent World Cup results and producing athletes who will be challenging for medals in even more events  in PyeongChang in 2018”

British skiers and snowboarders -  Sochi 2014 results:

Jenny Jones -  Snowboard Slopestyle – Bronze medal (3^rd/20 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 / 117 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 and 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, 15km Classic – 44^th/ 92 competitors and 50km Mass Start – 53^rd/ 60 competitors

Ben Kilner – Snowboard Halfpipe – 34^th / 39 competitors

Dom Harington – Snowboard Halfpipe – 38^th/ 39 competitors

Andrew Young – Cross Country: 15km Classic – 37^th / 92 competitors, Individual Sprint Free – 42^nd/ 85 competitors

Posy Musgrave – Cross Country: Individual Sprint Free – 42^nd / 67 competitors, 10km Classic - 66^th/ 76 competitors

Callum Smith – Cross Country: Individual Sprint Free – 62^nd/ 85 competitors and 15km Classic – 67^th/ 92 competitors

For full profiles of all British Ski and Snowboard athletes visit www.teambss.org.uk or the Ski Club of Great Britain website www.skiclub.co.uk/sochi.

Photo credit: Joe Morgan Team GB