Allen bounces back from foot injury to retain English title

The championships, organised by Snowsport England, see competitors take part in a series of timed runs which determine seedings for exciting head-to-head battles down a course of twisting turns and jumps.

Despite fracturing his foot just five weeks ago, Allen emerged with outright victory after a series of races that had taken him to the final.

The win caps a good season in which the 19-year-old again represented Great Britain at the World Junior Ski Cross Championships in Italy and picked up a bronze medal at ‘The Brits’ in Tignes - his first-ever slopestyle competition.

Allen is supported by Optilan in Coventry who employ him as a junior fibre optic engineer during the summer while giving him leave during the winter ski season to compete and work as a ski instructor in Zermatt, Switzerland.

He said: “My dream has always been the Olympics and I hope to get to the 2018 competition to represent my country.”