Jasmin Taylor

Jasmin Taylor is the first Briton to win a World Championship medal in telemark skiing. By the end of the 23/24 season, she had achieved 56 World Cup podiums, 4 World Championship medals and 2 Crystal Globes including the Overall World Cup title, making her Britain’s most successful skier ever.

Jaz joined the British Ski Academy as an athlete aged 12, competing as an alpine skier. After becoming the youngest British Ski Cross Champion ever, aged just 15, she made the England Freestyle Ski Team in 2009. It was during this time Jaz started telemark skiing, a discipline for which she showed potential on a far larger scale, competing in 2011 at her first World Junior Championship.

Jaz was invited to the World Junior Championships after the British Telemark Ski Team spotted her results in the French Cup series following her frequent podium appearances. Jaz has been on the team ever since.

During winter, she bases herself in Chamonix, France, and is currently training for the World Cup season and the 2021 World Championships. Persistent and hard-working, Jaz’s exceptional talent for telemarking is matched only by her fierce determination and ambition to one day be World Champion.

How she relaxes: I like to spend time with my family, friends and boyfriend. I like playing cards and back gammon with Will.

Her guilty pleasure: I find Harry Styles good looking, I don’t know if that’s okay or not

Her coping mechanism when stressed: Adding up numbers to see if they are lucky, such as my bib number added to the chairlift number, I think I’m slightly mad.

Her top work-out song: The Hard Road by The Hilltop Hoods

What she misses most from home when she is away skiing: My mum! My dad! My family and friends! This really is one of the hardest things. The good news is that my boyfriend, Will, joins me in the mountains these days.

The best bit of advice she has received: You don’t have to be more like anyone else, you just have to be more like you