In 2021 she beat French windfoiler
Lauriane Nolot into third place at the Formula Kite World Championships in
Torregrande in Sardinia. It was won by American
Daniela Moroz with Aldridge in second. In 2022 she took the silver medal in the KiteFoil World Series
Traunsee in Austria. She was beaten by the Polish surfer
Julia Damasiewicz. Aldridge led the UK contingent at the World Championships in August 2023 in The Hague. Lauriane Nolot won the event and Aldridge took the silver. She was followed in third and fourth place by fellow British competitors,
Lily Young and
Katie Dabson. In 2023 she was training with four other "GB Kite Girls" in Weymouth. Katie Dabson and the other "GB Kite Girls" were assisting her training for the Olympics. The "GB Kite Girls" were Aldridge, Maddy Anderson, Jemima Crathorne, Katie Dabson and Lily Young. She won the 2023 Formula Kite European Championships in Portsmouth beating the Dutch
Annelous Lammerts and the French
Poema Newland. This was her first significant win and she took first, despite a crash. Lauriane Nolot, the world champion was not in Portsmouth for the event. There was an Olympic rehearsal type event later in Paris, in 2024, when she came second to Nolot. however in May at the Formula Kite World Sailing Championships she came second to the Frenchwoman
Lauriane Nolot. Aldridge was then announced as a member of Great Britain's Formula Kite team. In kitesurfing, there is a large focus on having a higher weight to provide an advantage, so Aldridge focused on gaining weight for the 2024 Olympics; she cut down on exercise in order to gain 17% extra weight. She has stated that this means that cannot do other things she enjoys like cycling and eating healthily. All competitors are making similar sacrifices and she questions if the sport can continue if it requires riders to be so unhealthy. She went on to win gold in the women's
Formula kite event. Lauriane Nolot had fallen in one of the final races but her earlier results gave her the silver medal. The Dutch surfer,
Annelous Lammerts, took the bronze medal. She was a member of the team of women who competed for the Women's
America's Cup. Other team members were
Tash Bryant,
Hattie Rogers,
Anna Burnet and
Saskia Tidey and they were captained by
Hannah Mills. The team made it through the heats and their boat
Athena Pathway was beaten in the finals in October by the Italians. In the
New Years Honours, Aldridge became a
Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire together with other TeamGB team mates 800m runner
Keely Hodgkinson and trampoline Olympic champion
Bryony Page. Later that month it was announced that she and
Ben Cornish were to join the Emirates Great Britain SailGP Team training for a strategist role. ==References==