Two champions.
One incredible season.

The 2026 Freeride World Tour wrapped up on the iconic Bec des Rosses last weekend and we were beyond stoked to witness two of our riders come away as champions: Mia Jones took the Snowboard Women title in her rookie year and Victor de Le Rue made history, winning an unprecedented fifth FWT championship.

It’ll go down as one of the greatest debut seasons in FWT history. Mia arrived on the Tour as a rookie and immediately cemented her status as the one to beat, racking up four podium finishes across the season, while adding the inaugural FIS Freeride World Championship title to her name along the way.

Mia claimed back-to-back wins on the final two stages of the Tour. In Haines, Alaska, she threaded a steep, technical line without ever taking her foot off the gas, clocking a 91.00 from the judges. Two weeks later in Verbier, with 50cm of fresh blanketing the Bec des Rosses on the 30th anniversary of competition there, she rose to the occasion to secure her title.

Mia rode every stage on the Women’s Flagship snowboard. Since day one, the Flagship has been the cornerstone of our freeride collection, built for exactly the kind of lines Mia put down on the Tour. She paired it with the Jones Mercury FASE® bindings to give her the trusted performance and feel of a true two-strap binding with the response and control the terrain of the FWT demands. With changeable conditions on every stage, Mia opted for both the MTN Surf and Shralpinist Stretch 3L outerwear pieces to meet the demands of hiking and riding lines in the high alpine.

In a moment of serendipity to close out her season, Mia’s win means she and her father Jeremy, who won on the Bec des Rosses back in 2004, become the first parent-child duo to both stand on top of the podium here. A special full-circle moment to wrap up a dream debut on the Tour.

Victor came into the season already holding the record for most FWT titles of any male snowboarder. His fifth championship earns him the title of the most successful athlete in the tour’s history.

He did it in vintage Victor style, going huge in Haines with a frontside 540 that banked 91.67 points and won him the penultimate stage. On the Bec des Rosses, he threw down one of the runs of the day stomping a massive backflip straight into a no-fall zone in the heart of his run. With two first place finishes already locked in for his season, it was enough to secure second place and clinch the overall title.

Victor rode the Howler all season. It’s the board he designed to perform on the kind of terrain found at the FWT and to mirror his riding style: that full-throttle fusion of technical freeriding and freestyle energy that's become his signature. Like Mia, Victor paired his setup with Jones FASE® bindings – a new carbon-injected, high-performance model set for release in winter 2026/27.

It was a tough season in some ways. Two stops were cancelled due to conditions, which always throws a wrench into the rhythm of a tour. But both Mia and Victor had the consistency to bank points early and finish strong when it counted.