UK National Championships 2026: Joe Hinson wins by 7.43, Miriam Nelson by 1.53

On September 12 and 13, 2026, the UK national street championship went down at BaySixty6, under the Westway concrete, in west London. Joe Hinson and Miriam Nelson walk away with the titles. Same as last year. Except the scores tell two completely different stories.

The podiums and the scores from both finals

Eight finalists on each side, three runs apiece, five judges, and only the best score counts. Here’s what the official scoresheet said Sunday night. On the men’s side, Joe Hinson keeps his title with 95.83.

• 1. Joe Hinson95.83

  Skateboard GB national team, champ in 2025 and 2026

• 2. Alex Decunha88.40

  Runner-up for the second year running

• 3. James White87.03

  Didn’t even make the national top 8 last year

• 4. Morgan Shaw85.90

  8th in 2025, up four spots in a year

• 5. Kayden Hewson Cantoni82.30

  First senior national final

On the women’s side, Miriam Nelson holds onto her title with 81.20, and it came down to almost nothing.

• 1. Miriam Nelson81.20

  National street champ in 2025 and 2026

• 2. Lona Gordon79.67

  7th in 2025, up five spots in a year

• 3. Yuki Takahashi-McGilvray78.50

  8th and last in 2025, now on the podium

• 4. Megan Stokes75.93

  5th in 2025, up one spot

• 5. Ilka Rogers74.37

  First senior national final

Men’s final: Hinson raised his score every single run

Alex Decunha comes out swinging. First run, 88.40, he takes the lead and never leaves his chair. His next two runs go up in smoke: 65.13, then 55.50. Translation: he put his card on the table right away, then watched everybody else try to beat it for forty minutes.

Hinson did the opposite. 89.20 on his first run. Ahead already, but by 0.80 — basically nothing. 93.57 on the second. And 95.83 on the third and last, when he no longer needed a thing. Raising your score three runs in a row in a national final doesn’t happen by accident: it means he was holding stuff back. Final gap over Decunha: 7.43 points.

Behind them, James White puts up 87.03 after not even cracking the national top 8 last year, and Morgan Shaw climbs from 8th to 4th. The middle of the pack is moving. The top isn’t.

Women’s final: 1.53 points, and a last run that hit the ground

Nelson lands her run on the very first try: 81.20. Then nothing: 52.60 and 51.67, two attempts that go down. She spends the rest of the final defending a score she posted ten minutes earlier, with no way to improve it.

Across from her, Lona Gordon opens at 69.17, then drops 79.67 on her second run. She’s 1.53 points short. Her third and final run, the one for the title, ends at 57.77. She went down. Yuki Takahashi-McGilvray rounds out the podium at 78.50: 2.70 points separate the top three, the difference between a clean trick and one you barely ride away from.

Best trick: both champs take the trick contest too

That’s the detail that settles the argument. Saturday, before the finals, the weekend kicks off with a best trick: one hour, one trick to land, the heaviest thing you’ve got. Hinson takes it ahead of Harry While and Decunha. Nelson takes it ahead of Phoebe Mottram and Lona Gordon.

Skateboard GB didn’t publish scores for that event: we’ve got the rankings, not the numbers, and we’re not going to make them up. But the takeaway fits in one line: the two 2026 national champions are also the ones who put down the biggest trick of the weekend. Winning the title on consistency and the best trick on a single shot — that’s two opposite skills in the same body.

The finals on video: what Skateboard GB has put online

As we write this, the footage from the London finals isn’t up on the official channel yet — the event wrapped last night. What is online, though, are both street finals from last year’s edition, filmed by the federation. Same winners, same event: it’s the best way to see what a Hinson run and a Nelson run look like before this year’s clips drop.

And the women’s final, won by the same Miriam Nelson:

So is British street going in circles?

That’s the question you ask reading the two podiums side by side: same winners, same runner-up on the men’s side, two years straight. The answer is no, and the numbers themselves say so — as long as you read them right.

The scoring scale wasn’t the same in 2025 (totals sat around 170) and in 2026 (around 95). So you can’t compare the raw gaps. What you can compare is the gap relative to the winner’s score, and there the two charts head in opposite directions.

On the men’s side, Hinson beat Decunha by 1.07 points in 2025, or 0.6% of his own score. This year, 7.43 points, or 7.8%. In relative terms the gap is thirteen times bigger. Hinson isn’t just defending his title: he’s pulling away.

On the women’s side, it’s the exact opposite. Nelson won by 12.8% in 2025. This year, 1.9%. And the standings behind her got flipped: Lona Gordon goes from 7th to 2nd, Yuki Takahashi-McGilvray from 8th and last to 3rd. Five spots each, in twelve months.

That’s the real story of the weekend, and it isn’t the winner’s name. British men’s street is stretching out around one skater pulling clear. Women’s street is tightening up so fast the title came down to one blown run. If Gordon rides away from her last attempt, this is a different article. Same script a year from now? Nobody would bet on it.

Then there’s the awkward part: all of this went down in a skatepark under a motorway, in front of a few hundred people, with no live stream. We’ve already covered here how London dropped off the international circuit seven years ago. And meanwhile, that same federation is producing skaters like Sky Brown. The level is there. The platform, way less.

Lona Gordon goes down on her last run, 1.53 points off the title: would you have gone for that trick, or played it safe? Tell us in the comments ↓

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