Nice Britain’s Charlotte Bankes has moved one step nearer to retaining her Snowboardcross World Cup crystal globe together with her sixth successive win within the first of two competitions being staged at Mont Sainte Anne, Quebec, Canada.

The premiere on the one kilometre lengthy and difficult course was an enormous success with a blue sky on Saturday, with Bankes’ win additionally the 15^th of her profession.

The most recent win leaves Charlotte Bankes with 678 factors on the high of the chief board with France’s Chloe Trespeuch on 590 factors, who was second on Saturday and is now the one lady who may probably catch Bankes.