Alpine Ski World Cup Road Trip

The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup for the 2025-2026 winter season kicks off with the Giant Slalom in Sölden, Austria, and concludes with the World Cup Finals in Sun Valley in March. The highlight of the upcoming season will be the Alpine World Ski Championships held in Crans-Montana.

Julia Scheib finished on the podium eight times in ten Alpine Ski World Cup Giant Slalom races during the 2025-2026 winter season, winning five of those races (Sölden, Tremblant, Semmering, Kronplatz, and Are), with two second-place finishes and a third-place finish in the final race at the Finals in Hafjell.

Saalbach Hinterglemm, the venue of the FIS Alpine Ski World Championships 2025, will once again be part of the World Cup in the 2026-2027 winter season. On February 27 and 28, 2027, a Men’s Downhill and a Super-G are scheduled.

This season, Marco Odermatt clinched his fourth consecutive Super-G Crystal Globe. Aksel Lund Svindal and Hermann Maier share the Men's record with five Super-G titles, while Pirmin Zurbriggen won four. The 28-year-old Swiss superstar is the first man since Maier to win three Super-G globes in a row. He holds the Men's record with four Super-G globes in a row from 1998-2001.

Sofia Goggia won the last Super-G of the Alpine Ski World Cup season in Kvitfjell and claimed her first career Super-G title.

HEAD Worldcup Rebels have made a significant signing: Henrik Kristoffersen, a two-time World Champion and 34-time Alpine Ski World Cup race winner (26 in the Slalom, eight in the Giant Slalom), is now part of the HEAD team. The 31-year-old Norwegian skier, who has claimed the Alpine Ski World Cup Slalom Crystal Globe four times (2024-2025, 2021-2022, 2019-2020, and 2015-2016), and once the Giant Slalom Crystal Globe (2019-2020), secured a Bronze medal in the Slalom at Milano-

Marco Odermatt claimed his third consecutive Downhill Crystal Globe. The last Swiss skier to win the Downhill Crystal Globe before Odermatt was Beat Feuz, who won four between 2017-2018 and 2020-2021. During this season, the 28-year-old Swiss ski champion secured a podium finish in the Downhill eight times out of nine races, achieving four victories in Beaver Creek, Val Gardena, Wengen, and Garmisch Partenkirchen.

Laura Pirovano won the last Downhill of the Alpine Ski World Cup season and claimed her first career Downhill title. She finished 0.15 seconds ahead of Breezy Johnson. Kira Weidle-Winkelmann finished in third place, 0.25 seconds behind. The 28-year-old Italian skier completed her impressive run with her third consecutive victory at the World Cup Finals in Kvitfjell. Her winning streak began two weeks ago with her maiden victory in Val di Fassa.

Mikaela Shiffrin has won the Overall Alpine Ski World Cup title six times (in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2026). Only Marcel Hirscher (8) and Annemarie Moser-Pröll (6) have won the Overall World Cup at least six times. She goes past Lindsey Vonn as the American with the most Big Globes to her name.

Nine World Cup wins this season, two discipline Crystal Globes (Downhill and Super-G), and another Overall World Cup title. Marco Odermatt (Switzerland) has once again demonstrated he is the most consistent and therefore the best ski racer of our era for the fifth consecutive time.