Expect all the alpine nations and individual resorts to produce guidelines for safe skiing and snowboarding this winter. Whilst there are still uncertainties regarding the coming winter, there is a huge desire to get out to the mountains and live…
The Ski Club of Great Britain are running a survey to help understand consumers behaviour for the coming winter under the current circumstances. The greater the participation, the more the insight into British skiers and snowboarders plans this winter. The…
Slide, the annual snowsport tradeshow, takes place in January, every year and is run by SIGB (Snowsport Industries of Great Britain). With the last winter season being curtailed by the Covid-19 pandemic, there was uncertainty as to how the launch…
There’s no doubt that the impact of Covid-19 will have long-lasting implications for the Ski and Snowboard industries for years to come. In March 2020, SIGB’s annual OnSnow test, which usually takes place in Northern Italy’s Ski resort of Pila,…
Welcome to SIGB’s COVID-19 industry hub, an online resource to help the wider UK Snowsports industry to become better educated about the evolving coronavirus issue. The COVID-19 situation has led us into unprecedented times by changing the entire social and…
The 2020 SIGB SnowTest, due to be held in Pila, suffered a near-total pull-out of participating brands as the Covid-19 outbreak took hold in Northern Italy. Brand head offices started to impose no-travel instructions on their staff in the days…
Team GB's Katie Ormerod has become the first British Snowboarder to win a World Cup title, in her first full season back after injury. PRESS RELEASE: Katie Ormerod was today confirmed by the International Ski Federation as the 2019/20 Snowboard…
Gus Kenworthy continues his impressive return to competitive skiing after claiming first place, and his first gold for GB Snowsport, at the Calgary Snow Rodeo halfpipe last weekend. This follows the Silver he took on the Dew Tour in Mammoth.…
Katie Ormerod took her fourth-straight slopestyle podium (totaling 5 this season) of the season in the Calgary Snow Rodeo and leads the slopestyle standings with one event to go. Ormerod has made an impressive return to competition after an injury…
GB Snowsport's rising star Mani Cooper took the first podium finish of her career in Nordic Combined discipline at the FIS Youth Cup in Norway. The event consists of two days of 75m Ski jumping and a 3km cross-country course.…