An excerpt from Jasmin Taylor’s Blog about her recent achievements at the Junior World Championships in Espot, Spain…

World Junior Championship Bronze Medalist!
— March 20, 2025

After having spent the last 5 days in Espot, (Spain) I’m very pleased to announce that I won a Bronze Medal in the Dual Sprint! The first day of racing was the Classic, the longest of the 3 disciplines. I was 3rd Junior, and 7th overall before the plenty’s were added, and after I was shifted to 4th and 9th. I felt disappointed, and kept re-playing the run again and again in my head thinking “if I had just done this..or that”. Later that day, we had a qualifying run for the coming Dual Sprint race the next day. I crashed and thought I’d blown it, turns out I was 5th Junior! They take the top 8, so I was very pleased.

There were 3 competitors that I took on, the first sent me through to the final/small final, so at worst I would finish 4th. Each time you race them twice, so in total the final 4 all skied 6 times. The next round of races I lost, so I knew I was competing in either 3rd or 4th position and I really wanted a medal. In the end, I won my final 2 runs and was chuffed to have won a Bronze! I have been told it’s a first for Great Britain, so I couldn’t be more pleased.

I feel like I should take this opportunity to thank my team-mate and captain, Andrew Clarke, for selecting me to be on the team. Sadly, Espot was his last world cup race and I would like to wish him all the best for the future.