Madi Rowlands

I have been skiing since I could walk and took up an interest in freestyle skiing by following my older brother Michael through the ski park when we were away on family holidays.  I quickly progressed and entered my first competitions in 2010.  In 2011, I entered all ski discipline competitions at the British Championships in Laax, Switzerland and won gold in my age category in all four events.

In 2013, I became the youngest ever athlete to win the British Championships overall womens’ slopestyle event. In 2014, I repeated this victory, also adding the overall halfpipe title as well as winning all of my age group events.

As a result of these successes, I became the youngest member of the GB freestyle team representing GB in both halfpipe and slopestyle disciplines – the only GB athlete doing both.

In 2016, I was selected to represent GB at the Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway.  I am extremely proud to say that I made history by becoming the first ever GB athlete to win a gold medal on snow by winning the halfpipe competition.  A few days later I added a bronze medal in the slopestyle event.

In 2017, I finished the season second in the AFP World Tour women’s overall rankings, I was the AFP World Tour Junior Halfpipe champion and was also ranked second in the AFP World Tour Junior overall rankings.

In 2018, I qualified for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in both halfpipe and slopestyle but did not compete due to an injury I sustained just three weeks before the Games started.