Since its inception in 1967, Giant Slalom has been an integral part of the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup. At the end of October, the 2025-2026 winter season kicks off with the traditional Women's and Men's Giant Slalom races on the Rettenbach Glacier in Soelden.

Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, the Giant Slalom Olympic Champion, won the Giant Slalom Alpine Ski World Cup Crystal Globe during the 2025-2026 winter season. The 25-year-old Brazilian celebrated his second victory of the season in this discipline at the last race held in Hafjell, snatching the title from Marco Odermatt.

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.

Super-G, along with Downhill, is considered a "speed" event, unlike the technical events such as Giant Slalom and Slalom. It debuted as an official Alpine Ski World Cup event in 1983 and was included in the official schedules of the 1987 World Championships in Crans-Montana and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.

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.

Downhill is considered the premier discipline and is the longest and, after the slalom, second-oldest alpine skiing competition. Since its inception in 1967, Downhill has been an integral part of the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup.

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.

The 2026–2027 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Slalom season will begin with Women's and Men's races on the 'Levi Black' slope in Levi, Finland, on 14–15 November.

Atle Lie McGrath, who won three Slalom races this year in Alta Badia, Wengen, and Kranjska Gora, and finished on the podium six times, secured the discipline's Crystal Globe by finishing 64 points ahead of Clément Noël and 73 points ahead of his former teammate, Lucas Pinheiro Braathen.

Mikaela Shiffrin secured the Slalom Crystal Globe by earning 980 points out of a possible 1000 in the Alpine Ski World Cup Slalom season, achieving nine wins and one second-place finish. The Swiss duo of Camille Rast (538 points) and Wendy Holdener (498 points) finished in second and third place, respectively.

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.

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.

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-

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.

The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup was launched in 1966. One year later the inaugural World Cup race was held On January 5, in Berchtesgaden (GER)

Mikaela Shiffrin's record of 110 wins makes her, statistically, the most successful skier in Alpine Ski World Cup history.

Timon Haugan won the thrilling last Alpine Ski World Cup Slalom of the winter season in Hafjell and celebrated his sixth World Cup victory. The Norwegian finished 0.44 seconds ahead of Loic Meillard. Eduard Hallberg took third place, 1.03 seconds behind. Atle Lie McGrath, who won three slalom races this year in Alta Badia, Wengen, and Kranjska Gora, secured the discipline's Crystal Globe