World, meet Mia Brookes. Mia Brookes, meet the world. The 16-year-old from Great Britain scored a number of firsts at the FIS World Championships in Bakuriani, Georgia yesterday. With an insane slopestyle run, she punched out the first cab 1440 by a woman, became Britain’s first world champ in slopestyle, and the youngest ever in that discipline, and outlets are reporting she is the youngest snowboarding world champ ever (we didn’t fact check that). Regardless, the girl laid it down with everything on the table, in her first world championship event (she was too young for the 2022 Olympic games).
“What Mia’s done out here today is just next level,” said Pat Sharples, who leads Great Britain’s national snowsports program. “We all know Mia’s got the talent, but this is her first season on the WC circuit and her first world championships so to land a run like that with all the pressure of a World Championships tells you everything you need to know about her. We’re all so stoked for Mia.”
Yeah, it was big, not just for the kid, but her whole country. She knocked defending Olympic champ Zoi Sadowski-Synnott off the top of the podium with the run.
Brookes said after, “I feel like I could cry, I’ve never been so happy in my life.” And that would be totally appropriate.
