Zoe Atkin clinched bronze in the women's halfpipe with a final-run score of 92.50, securing Team GB's fifth medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics. China's Eileen Gu won gold (94.75) while compatriot Li Fanghui took silver. Atkin, already guaranteed a podium before her last run, improved her score despite the pressure being completely off.

This bronze equals her sister Izzy's slopestyle medal from Pyeongchang 2018 and brings Team GB's total to five medals—three golds, one silver, one bronze. That matches the team's record hauls from Sochi 2014 and Pyeongchang 2018. The mixed team snowboard cross gold a week ago was historic, marking the first time Britain won more than one gold at a single Winter Games.

The 23-year-old world champion entered these Games as an X Games gold medalist and student at Stanford University, where she studied symbolic systems. She applied cognitive science to manage the inherent fear of a sport where a 5m amplitude means a near 12m drop to ice. "Learning about the mechanisms of the brain has really helped me," she said, turning academic theory into a tool for pushing limits on the pipe.