Kirsty
Muir
United Kingdom
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Freeskiing
Date of birth | 5 May 2005 |
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Place of birth | Aberdeen |
Age | 21 |
Nationality | United Kingdom |
Career start | 2018 |
Discipline | Freeskiing Slopestyle |
Strapping on a pair of skis for the first time aged just three, Kirsty Muir‘s formative years were spent learning her craft at Aberdeen Sports Centre. Initially trained in alpine skiing, she discovered the world of freestyle, where her talent shone through.
Prodigious talent at national level
The Scot excelled at the junior level, winning a host of national titles before making the senior ranks stand up and take notice in 2018. Aged just 13, and despite competing against seasoned pros, Kirty won all three freeski titles – big air, slopestyle and halfpipe – at the BRITS Championships.
The following year, Kirsty attended her first Europa Cup Slopestyle event and claimed first place. She then earned second and third in events at the FIS Junior World Freestyle Skiing Championships in Sweden.
In January 2020, Kirsty took part in the Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, Switzerland, earning silver in big air and narrowly missing out on a medal in slopestyle, finishing fourth.
Stepping up
Leaving the junior ranks behind, Kirsty continued to excel as she claimed second in just her fourth senior event at the FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup competition in Aspen, Colorado. She also competed in the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2021, placing sixth in slopestyle.
Next up for the Scot was the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, where she was the youngest member of Team GB. Competing in both big air and slopestyle, Kirsty made the final of both events, further demonstrating why she is considered one of the most exciting prospects on the freestyle scene.
Kirsty came in third at the 2023 Winter X Games in the big air and slopestyle events. She won second in the big air event in the Beijing leg of the 2023–24 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup and third in the same event at Copper Mountain.
A major setback
Unfortunately, in December 2023, she ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament and sustained meniscus damage after crashing during an event.
The road to recovery was long and hard, but in 2025, Kirsty got back on her skis in time to qualify for Milano-Cortina the following year. Here, she pushed hard, but will have been among the most frustrated athletes at the Games, having narrowly missed out in both Slopestyle and Big Air, placing fourth in both events.
An historic achievement
Never one to let a setback like that affect her too deeply, and a month on from the disappointment of the Games, Muir made history by becoming the first UK skier to win both the Slopestly and overall Freeski Park and Pipe World Cup Crystal Globes. A third-place finish at the final slopestyle event of the season in Silvaplana, Switzerland was enough to clinch her the discipline title. Combined with her third-place in the halfpipe standings, that gave her 470 points overall - enough to clinch the big Crystal Globe by a margin of 78 points.
"I’m still very speechless," she commented after the season finale. "It had definitely been a goal of mine for a while and this season had been going so well. You have to be consistent over the competitions. I’m just overall so stoked with how the season has gone."
Kirsty Muir is one of the sport’s brightest talents
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Kirsty Muir nailed the Triple-S multiple times
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Kirsty Muir catches some big air in California
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Kirsty Muir is a defining force in modern freeskiing
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