Nice Britain’s Charlotte Bankes received her first Snowboard Cross World Cup race since breaking her collarbone in April with a dominant show in Dongbeiya.

The 30-year-old confirmed she is in effective type heading into the Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina, transferring by way of qualification on the Chinese language resort because the quickest athlete, then successful each her quarter and semi-final.

Bankes then triumphed within the Massive Ultimate, ending forward of Australian Josie Baff and France’s Chloe Trespeuch to seal the second World Cup occasion of the season.

The win is Bankes’ first podium end since she took bronze on the Montafon World Cup in March, and is her first victory because the Gudauri World Cup the identical month.

Having absolutely recovered from the harm she sustained on the ultimate World Cup occasion of final season, the two-time Crystal Globe winner now seems set to problem for an Olympic medal in Italy.

The then reigning world champion, Bankes was knocked out within the quarter-finals on the 2022 Video games in Beijing.

A second set of races shall be held in Dongbeiya on Sunday, whereas the 2026 Winter Olympics open on 6 February.

In the meantime, Neil Simpson took his third World Cup podium of the week with silver within the Saalbach World Cup Tremendous G races on Friday.

Racing alongside information Rob Poth, Simpson secured his first ever Tremendous G World Cup podium within the self-discipline by which he received gold on the 2022 Paralympic Winter Video games and the 2023 World Championships.

The 23-year-old Scot had already received bronze medals within the back-to-back Downhill World Cup races earlier within the week.