Freeski World Championships: Britain's Zoe Atkin wins halfpipe silver

Britain's Zoe Atkin secured back-to-back World Championship medals with metallic successful the freeski halfpipe successful Bakuriani, Georgia.

But she was beaten by 18-year-old American Hanna Faulhaber's 95.75 connected the penultimate tally of the competition.

"It's amazing. I'm truly stoked and truthful proud," said Atkin.

"I'm 3 for 3 connected podiums this year, truthful that's truly exciting. I'm truly stoked to get the adjacent 1 up this year.

"The conditions were beauteous pugnacious and I didn't truly bash immoderate of my tricks, truthful I'm conscionable stoked to beryllium capable to enactment 1 down. And past to beryllium capable to get onto the podium."

The metallic for Atkin, who won her archetypal X Games golden medal successful Ski Superpipe successful Aspen, Colorado successful January, sees her travel successful the footsteps of her younger sister Izzy, Britain's archetypal Olympic skiing medallist, who won bronze astatine consecutive World Championships successful 2017 and 2019.

American-born Atkin took a interruption from the athletics aft finishing ninth astatine past year's Winter Olympics successful Beijing.

"I had a unsmooth mates of months aft the Olympics," she said. "Post-Olympics slump is truly real, and it was decidedly existent for me, but I retrieve going to outpouring camps and sometimes not adjacent putting connected my skis.

"I'd thrust to the elevation and sometimes conscionable crook astir and thrust back. I took immoderate clip disconnected successful the summertime and went to schoolhouse successful the autumn, which was a bully intelligence reset - I deliberation I truly needed that, due to the fact that I've been skiing since I was 2 years old.

"So it's bully to get a small break, travel backmost much excited astir it. Obviously the podiums mean truthful overmuch to me, but I'm truthful hyped to beryllium capable to accidental I'm excited to skis again, to beryllium excited to enactment connected my skis successful the greeting and spell for it."