British teenage skiing star Tom Hudson continued his fantastic week at the Delancey British Alpine Skiing Championships in Tignes with another Under-18 gold medal.

The 17-year-old from Suffolk was the fastest skier in the Giant Slalom in his age category, winning the Gordon Skiers Cup with a combined time over two runs of 2:27.41 in his first year in the senior’s races.

As one of the biggest events in the British alpine skiing calendar, the Championships will see Olympians Dave Ryding, Laurie Taylor, Alex Tilley and Charlie Guest go head to head with other European racers of the highest level.

The Championships, which run from 25th March to 6th April, will also showcase the best up and coming skiers from the U21 and U18 squads, of which Hudson is a promising racer.

“The second run I messed up off the road but I managed to fight and stay back in and put in a good time,” said Hudson.

“I remember my coach saying ‘don’t give up, even if you’re skiing badly, it’ll be bad for everyone else.’

“So I put it in to the finish, had a good run. A lot of the top guys came out, so I said right let’s just do this and finish.

“Since the English Champs in February I started focusing on technique because I would sometimes blow-out on the course, in the training up to these champs my coach said I was skiing quite well so I felt good coming into these races.”

Hudson was also the fastest Under-18 in the national Downhill race on Monday, but the youngster admitted he feels the pressure at the British Championships due to its importance.

“I feel more pressurised compared to other FIS races,” he said.

“A lot of FIS races you’re against people you don’t really know so I’ll just go for it, whereas this you know a lot of people and you know how good they are, it puts a bit more pressure on.

“It’s good though because a lot of families come to watch, whereas the other ones are just normal ones.”

Having learnt to ski on dry slopes back home, Hudson now trains with the British Ski Academy in Pila, Italy, and claimed that seeing Olympians at events like the British Championships inspires him.

“I started skiing when I was about four in France,” said the racer.

“Then when I was about 10 or 11 my friends told me to join a dry-slope club. So I joined Ipswich Dry Slopes for a few years, then I moved on to Norwich Dry Slopes and did that until I was about 14, 15.

“It’s really good training because with our lift passes in the Aosta Valley we can train in so many different resorts, so we get different snow conditions, different hill types and stuff, so it helps with technique.

“It’s good to see Dave around because he’s a World Cup skier and he’s podiumed in the World Cup, so pretty amazing to see him. It’s good to see how you compare to a World Cup guy.”

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