Alice Robinson, Piera Hudson, Willis Feasey and Jack Adams have been selected to compete for New Zealand at the 2021 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

The event will take place from February 7-21, 2021.

Individual event entries are to be confirmed on Monday (January 18) but Snow Sports NZ Head of Alpine Jono Howson has indicated the likely inclusion of Piera (who trains in Wanaka) for Giant Slalom, Slalom and Parallel.

Also to be included are Alice Robinson (Queenstown) – Alpine Combined, Super G, Giant Slalom and Parallel; Willis Feasey (Christchurch) – Super G and Giant Slalom; and Jack Adams (Queenstown) – Giant Slalom, Slalom and Parallel.

Piera made waves in 2018 when she became the first Kiwi alpine athlete to achieve a top 30 result and score World Cup Slalom points in 15 years. She impressively skied from bib 59 to finish in 26thplace at the Killington Cup in Vermont, USA and brings her Slalom experience to the team.

Alice stunned the Alpine World when she won the Soelden FIS World Cup Giant Slalom season opener in 2019 when she was just a 17-year-old. The experienced World Cup skier will bring her world class Giant Slalom abilities and winning mentality to the team.

Willis, who competed in Slalom, Giant Slalom and Super G at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games, brings more than 13 years of FIS racing experience to the team.

“It’s always an honour to be selected for a New Zealand team. To ski in Cortina for the most important winter event this year will be amazing and well worth a watch if you can. It’s been a pretty weird build up trying to juggle COVID lockdowns and that sort of stuff so really looking forward to just getting there and trying to ski as fast as possible,” he said.

Jack, who has recently achieved his season’s best score of 43.00 at a FIS Slalom race in Hochfuegen, Austria, rounds out the Kiwi team of four.

The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships are held once every two years. 

“World Champs is a stand-alone event and the person that is crowned world champion gets to claim that for two years, it is quite an honour,” Jono said.