Kirsty Muir
Aberdeen, Scotland | Active: FIS status active | Discipline: freeski slopestyle and big air | Verified: X Games Aspen 2026 slopestyle gold, 2026 slopestyle and overall Freeski Park & Pipe Crystal Globes, four Olympic top-10 finishes | Current: Red Bull and Völkl athlete, GB Snowsport World Cup contender
Livigno When The Bronze Line Stayed Out Of Reach
Livigno’s slopestyle course sat pale under Italian winter light, the rails chalked with fresh edge marks and the final jump waiting in cold silence. Kirsty Muir dropped for run three with one score to beat and no room left for a safe version.
The number at the bottom was 76.05. Megan Oldham’s bronze position stayed 0.41 points away, Mathilde Gremaud defended gold, Eileen Gu took silver, and Muir stood fourth at a second Olympic Games with the sharpest kind of proof: she had become a medal threat, not a teenage surprise. One week later, the big air final brought the same result again. Fourth place in both events was harsh, but the context had changed. Muir was no longer being measured by participation. She was being measured against the podium.
Aspen Gold, Tignes Globes, And A British First
Muir’s 2025-26 season turned her from high-potential contender into one of the lead women in freeski park and pipe. She won the Secret Garden Big Air World Cup in China, then took the Aspen Freeski Slopestyle World Cup in January. At X Games Aspen 2026, she won women’s ski slopestyle with 93.66 and added silver in big air behind Mathilde Gremaud.
The season finished with trophies that matter inside FIS history. At Silvaplana in March 2026, Muir placed second in the slopestyle finale and secured the women’s Freeski Slopestyle Crystal Globe. FIS also recorded her as the women’s overall Freeski Park & Pipe Crystal Globe winner, with the overall title built across slopestyle and big air results.
For Great Britain, the meaning is direct. British freeskiing had already built Olympic moments through James Woods, Katie Summerhayes, Izzy Atkin, Gus Kenworthy’s GB chapter, Zoe Atkin, and the wider park-and-pipe team. Muir added a new line: Scotland’s leading freeski woman, X Games winner, World Cup globe winner, and active Olympic medal contender.
Garthdee Dry Slope Before The Alps
Muir was born on May 5, 2004, in Aberdeen, Scotland. Her FIS profile lists Aberdeen Snowsports as her club and Great Britain as her nation. The dry slope at Adventure Aberdeen Snowsports Centre is central to the biography because it explains how unusual the route is.
Dry-slope skiing gives repetition, balance, and edge feel, but it does not give the same rhythm as Alpine park laps. There are no long chairlift circuits through powder weather, no daily access to full-size slopestyle courses, and no winter-long park culture at the scale of Laax, Stubai, Cardrona, or Park City. Muir had to carry movement from plastic and matting toward snow, rails, air bags, glacier camps, and eventually Olympic start gates.
That background also connects her to the British freestyle pattern. James Woods came from Sheffield’s artificial slope. Katie Summerhayes came through the Sheffield and British freestyle system. Muir’s Aberdeen route belongs to that same non-Alpine tradition, but her results pushed it into a new women’s freeski era.
Lausanne Silver And The First Senior Podium
The first international sign arrived before she was old enough for senior Olympic pressure. At Lausanne 2020, Muir won silver in women’s freeski big air at the Winter Youth Olympic Games and finished fourth in slopestyle. Team GB also used her as a closing ceremony flagbearer, a detail that matched the attention already building around her.
Her senior World Cup breakthrough came at Aspen in March 2021. BBC coverage at the time framed it as a first World Cup medal, taken with silver in slopestyle while she was still sixteen. The venue matters. Aspen/Snowmass is not a soft entry point. The course has real speed, U.S. Grand Prix depth, and a park-and-pipe history tied to X Games and Olympic selection.
That early World Cup medal placed her beside riders who would shape the next cycle: Eileen Gu, Mathilde Gremaud, Megan Oldham, Kelly Sildaru, Tess Ledeux, Johanne Killi, and Giulia Tanno. Muir was not yet the finished version, but the scoring ceiling had already appeared.
Beijing At Seventeen
At Beijing 2022, Muir was Team GB’s youngest athlete. Big Air Shougang gave her the first Olympic stage: a steel-framed jump in an industrial setting, with cooling towers behind the landing and a judging format that leaves no place to hide. She finished fifth in women’s freeski big air.
The result was more than a ranking. She had entered the final as a teenager and put down tricks strong enough to stay near the medal group. At Genting Snow Park, she also reached the women’s freeski slopestyle final and finished eighth. Katie Summerhayes placed ninth, giving Britain two women inside the final field.
Those Beijing numbers now read as the start of a four-event Olympic pattern. Fifth and eighth in 2022, then fourth and fourth at Milano Cortina 2026. None of those are medals, but all four are top-10 Olympic results in events where the women’s field became deeper, more technical, and more dangerous with each season.
The Knee Year That Changed The Return
The 2023 X Games had already proved Muir could medal in Aspen. She took bronze in women’s ski slopestyle and bronze in women’s ski big air, becoming the first Scottish skier to compete at X Games and turning that debut stage into two podiums.
Then December 2023 stopped the season. GB Snowsport confirmed an ACL rupture and meniscus damage after the Copper Mountain World Cup, with the injury expected to sideline her for the remainder of 2023-24. Team GB later reported that she also underwent shoulder surgery and spent almost a year away from skiing.
The recovery story is more precise than a generic comeback. Muir used mountain biking during the long no-ski period, working with coaches she trusted and using speed on wheels to replace part of the feeling she normally found on snow. That outlet mattered because her sport depends on timing, nerve, and the ability to return to takeoffs without skiing timidly.
Secret Garden, Aspen, And Tignes After Surgery
The first full proof came at Tignes in March 2025, when Muir won her maiden World Cup slopestyle event after returning from serious knee injury. The French course has spring light, changing snow, and a jump line that can punish tentative speed. She did not just return to the start list. She won.
In November 2025 at Secret Garden, China, she added her first Big Air World Cup win. GB Snowsport described her scoring package around a left double 1440 safety and a right double 1080 mute. FIS framed the win as the women’s season-opening victory, with Naomi Urness and Liu Mengting also in the podium mix.
Aspen in January 2026 added slopestyle evidence. FIS recorded Muir’s winning run with a left 270 continuing 270 on the first rail, a switch left 270 continuing 270, a right double cork 1080 safety, a left 720 tailgrab, and a right slide front 630 on the final rail. The run beat Megan Oldham and Elena Gaskell in difficult snow and flat light.
How Muir Builds The Score Before The Jumps
Muir’s best slopestyle skiing starts before the kickers. The rail sections are not filler. She uses left 270s, switch 270s, continuing rotations, lipslide positions, frontside 450s, cannon-rail control, and switch entries to make the upper course count. That matters because women’s slopestyle has moved far beyond a jump-only contest.
Her air vocabulary is now deep enough to score across both disciplines: right double cork 1080 safety, switch left bio 900 tail grab, left cork 900 tail grab, left double 1440 safety, right double 1080 mute, and left double 1620 in big air. The trick spread gives her left-right balance, switch comfort, and enough rotational range to compete against Gremaud, Gu, Oldham, Gaskell, Wolf, Urness, and Tabanelli.
Compared with Gremaud, Muir’s skiing looks less Swiss-polished and more direct. Compared with Gu, she carries less halfpipe crossover and more slopestyle-specific rail identity. Compared with Oldham, she is smaller in frame but sharp in rail rhythm and quick through transitions. Her strength is the way she links technical rails to doubles without letting the course look split in two.
Red Bull, Völkl, And The Support Around The Risk
Muir’s sponsor picture has developed alongside the results. Downdays listed Red Bull, Völkl, Marker, Dalbello, Blenders Eyewear, Planks Clothing, Absolut Park, and Ellis Brigham in a 2023 athlete feature. In a 2025 interview with Teton Gravity Research, Muir said Völkl had supported her since she was fifteen and Red Bull since she was eighteen, and named the Revolt 90 as a favourite park and competition ski.
Those details fit the athlete. Völkl, Marker, and Dalbello give the ski-binding-boot system for rails, doubles, and hard competition landings. Red Bull connects her to training, recovery support, athlete media, and the wider freestyle network. Absolut Park and Alpine camps matter because a skier from Aberdeen needs time on snow in places where big jumps and technical rails are available.
The British team environment also matters. GB Snowsport’s park-and-pipe group now has real depth, with Muir, Zoe Atkin, Mia Brookes, Katie Summerhayes, and other athletes giving British winter sport more than one story at a time. That depth changes the pressure around Muir. She is not an isolated British curiosity. She is part of a group that can arrive at X Games and World Cups expecting finals.
Active Status After The Crystal Globes
FIS lists Muir as active, and her 2025-26 record shows the clearest phase of her career so far: Secret Garden Big Air gold, Aspen Slopestyle World Cup gold, X Games Aspen slopestyle gold, X Games Big Air silver, two Olympic fourth places, Tignes Slopestyle World Cup gold, Silvaplana second, the slopestyle Crystal Globe, and the overall Freeski Park & Pipe Crystal Globe.
For skipowd.tv, the viewing path is specific: Lausanne 2020 for the Youth Olympic start, Aspen 2021 for the first World Cup podium, Beijing 2022 for the teenage Olympic arrival, X Games Aspen 2023 for the double bronze, Tignes 2025 for the comeback win, Aspen 2026 for the X Games title, Livigno 2026 for the painful medal margins, and Silvaplana 2026 for the globe season made official.
