Team GB's guide to the 2024/25 winter sport season

Winter Sports 08 Nov 24

Dust off those goggles and grab your thermals, the winter season is upon us!

Memories of a sun-kissed summer in Paris may not be long in the rear view but with temperatures falling and skies turning to grey, it's time for attentions to shift as the countdown to Milano Cortina 2026 surpasses the halfway point.

This winter season, World and European medals will be up for grabs from Boston to Beijing, with an array of British sporting stars in action.

First up are the European Curling Championships in Finland from November 13-16, with Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie and Hammy McMillan looking to clinch a fifth title in five visits to Lohja's Kisakallio Sports Centre.

The quintet became the first Scots to win the Baden Masters earlier this year before defending their Euro Super Series title and securing the first Grand Slam of the season in Canada at The Hearing Life Tour Challenge.

Meanwhile, curling superstar Rebecca Morrison is set to continue her ascendancy in the sport.

Born in Bristol and raised in Stirling, the 25-year-old led Scotland to a landmark bronze in the nation's first-ever senior international competition.

In Finland, Morrison will take to the ice alongside Jen Dodds, Sophie Jackson and Sophie Sinclair, with Fay Henderson as alternate.

Next on the calendar is the Speed Skating European Championships in Heerenveen from January 10-12, with the couple of Cornelius Kersten and Ellia Smeding set to ring in the New Year in the Netherlands.

30-year-old Kersten made history in Beijing 2022 by delivering the best British Olympic speed skating performance in nearly six decades, with his time of 1:08.79 just three tenths off Norwegian bronze medallist Haavard Holmefjord Lorentzen.

Smeding meanwhile, became the first first female long track speed skater to represent Team GB since Kim Ferran and Mandy Horsepool in 1980 when she took to the ice in the Chinese capital.

The late Winter period then sees World Championships in Biathlon (12-23 February), Cross-Country (26 February-9 March), Speed Skating (13-16 March) and Figure Skating (25-30 March) before the Men's World Curling Championships round off the winter season (29 March-6 April)

Selected Key Events

Curling: European Championships, men and women, Lohjah, Finland, 16-23 November 2024

Speed Skating: European Championships, Heerenveen, Netherlands, 10-12 January 2025

Short Track: European Championships, Dresden, Germany 17-19 January 2025

Luge: FIL European Championships/World Cup, Winterberg, Germany, 18-19 January 2025

Figure Skating: European Championships, Tallin, Estonia, 28 January-2 February 2025

Biathlon: IBU European Championships, Martell-Val Martello, 29 January-2 February 2025

Alpine: FIS World Championships, Saalbach, Austria, 4-16 February 2025

Skeleton: World Cup/European Championships, Lillehammer, Norway, 7 February 2025

Bobsleigh: World Cup/European Championships, Lillehammer, Norway, 8-9 February 2025

Biathlon: IBU World Championships, Lenzerheide, Switzerland, 12-23 February 2025

Cross-Country/Ski Jumping/Nordic Combined: FIS World Championships, Trondheim, Norway, 26 February-9 March 2025

Ski Mountaineering: ISMF World Championships, Morgins, Switzerland, 2-9 March 2025

Skeleton: World Championships, Lake Placid, USA, 6-8 March 2025

Bobsleigh: World Championships, Lake Placid, USA 9 March 2025

Read more: Meet Team GB's history making bobsleigh team

Speed Skating: World Championships, Hamar, Norway, 13-16 March 2025

Short Track: World Championships, Beijing, China, 14-16 March 2025

Curling: Women's World Championships, Uijeongbu, Korea, 15-23 March 2025

Bobsleigh: World Championships, Lake Placid, USA, 16 March 2025

Freeski/Snowboard FIS World Championships, Engadin, Switzerland, 16-30 March 2025

Figure Skating: World Championships: Boston, USA, 25-30 March 2025

Curling: Men's World Championships: Moose Jaw, Canada, 29 March-6 April 2025

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