British teenager Mia Brookes, 16, becomes the youngest world champion in snowboarding history

British teenager Mia Brookes turned the youngest world champion in snowboarding history after capping off an impressive morning in Bakuriani, Georgia with a milestone transfer.

The 16-year-old, the first to win world slopestyle gold for Great Britain, additionally landed the first-ever CAB 1440 double seize in a ladies’s competitors en path to a second-run rating of 91.38 in her first world championships.

That lifted her forward of two-time defending champion Zoi Sadowski-Synnott of New Zealand, who took silver with a greatest rating of 88.78 from her first run, whereas Japan’s Miyabi Onitsuka accomplished the podium with 83.05.

Brookes, who sealed victory with the penultimate run of the competitors, instructed the BBC: ‘I truthfully really feel like I’m going to cry. I’ve by no means been so pleased in my life. I am unable to even converse, I’m that pleased. I used to be at the high and my coach was similar to, ‘If you wish to win this, simply attempt the 14.’

‘I attempted 12 in observe and I got here spherical and nearly went 14, and I knew it was doable on this leap. I attempted it as soon as earlier than however that is the first time I stomped it, so I’m tremendous pleased.’

Britain’s Mia Brookes has change into the youngest world champion in snowboarding history

Brookes triumphed in the ladies’s slopestyle occasion at the World Championships in Georgia

The 16-year-old landed the first-ever CAB 1440 double seize in a ladies’s occasion to win gold

Brookes has been snowboarding since she was 18 months outdated, travelling in her household’s motorhome round Europe.

She was scouted by GB Snowsport coaches aged 10, and was chosen to the workforce’s improvement squad the following yr.

GB Snowsport head coach Pat Sharples stated on www.gbsnowsport.com: ‘What Mia’s accomplished out right here at this time is simply subsequent degree. We all know Mia’s received the expertise, however that is her first season on the World Cup circuit and her first world championships so to land a run like that with all the stress of a world championships tells you the whole lot you have to learn about her.

‘We’re all so stoked for Mia, her coaches Mikey and Ben, her dad and mom and the entire workforce round her.’

Brookes had competed in World Rookie Tour competitions after becoming a member of the GB Snowsport improvement squad.

Brookes has been snowboarding since she was 18 months outdated, travelling in her household’s motorhome round Europe

She made her senior debut in a Europa Cup occasion in Switzerland in December 2020, underlining her potential with a second place end in the slopestyle competitors.

Brookes solely made her debut on the high tier World Cup circuit in October, when the teenager competed in the Big Air occasion at Kreischberg in Austria.

Her maiden slopestyle World Cup look ended with a podium end, with Brookers ending as the runner-up in Laax in January.

The end result was considered one of three top-10 finishes throughout her debut World Cup season.

Brookes may even compete in the ladies’s Big Air occasion at the World Championships in Georgia, with qualification scheduled to happen on March 4.

The closing will happen on March 5.