{"id":500212,"date":"2026-02-15T21:09:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/great-britain-conquers-its-first-olympic-gold-in-snow-sports-with-victory-in-mixed-snowboard-cross\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T21:09:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:09:44","slug":"great-britain-conquers-its-first-olympic-gold-in-snow-sports-with-victory-in-mixed-snowboard-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/sports\/great-britain-conquers-its-first-olympic-gold-in-snow-sports-with-victory-in-mixed-snowboard-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Britain conquers its first Olympic gold in snow sports with victory in mixed snowboard cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<em>Sports Writing.<\/em> \u2013 Great Britain made history this Saturday by winning its first Olympic gold medal in a snow sport after winning the mixed team snowboard cross event at the <strong>Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics<\/strong>.\n\n\n<p><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/domen-prevc-se-corona-campeon-olimpico-en-salto-de-esqui-desde-trampolin-largo\/#google_vignette\">:Domen Prevc is crowned Olympic champion in ski jumping from the large hill<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe duo of <strong>Huw Nightingale<\/strong> and <strong>Charlotte Bankes<\/strong> dominated the competition from the preliminary rounds, setting the best times in the quarterfinals, semifinals, and final to secure the historic victory.\n\nWith this victory, the British team adds its second gold medal in Milan-Cortina 2026, after the title won by Matt Weston in skeleton days ago. The achievement is especially relevant, as it is the first Olympic gold on snow for the country, which until now had accumulated fourteen gold medals in ice disciplines since 1908.\n\nThe podium was completed by Italy and France. The hosts, represented by <strong>Lorenzo Sommariva<\/strong> and <strong>Michela Moioli<\/strong>, took the silver. For Moioli, it was her second medal in the mixed modality, after the runner-up achieved in 2022, in addition to having obtained bronze in the individual women's event in this same edition.\n\nBronze went to the French pair formed by <strong>Loan Bozzolo<\/strong> and <strong>L\u00e9a Casta<\/strong>, while Australia finished in fourth position.\n\nThe mixed team snowboard cross event held its second appearance in the Olympic program, after its debut in Beijing 2022, where the gold went to the United States, a team that did not manage to advance to the final on this occasion.\n\nWith this performance, Great Britain writes its name in the Olympic history of winter sports and consolidates the growth of snowboarding within its competitive structure.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Writing. \u2013 Great Britain made history this Saturday by winning its first Olympic gold medal in a snow sport after winning the mixed team snowboard cross event at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. You may be interested in:Domen Prevc is crowned Olympic champion in ski jumping from the large hill The duo of Huw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[611,40231,41186],"class_list":{"0":"post-500212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports","7":"tag-deultimominuto","8":"tag-dominican-republic","9":"tag-theperiodicodelatruth"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Sports"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}