2024-2025 Women's Alpine Ski World Cup Downhill Season Review

Federica Brignone claimed her first career Downhill Crystal Globe with a total of 384 points. Last season's Downhill World Cup winner Cornelia Hütter (368), along with Sofia Goggia (350), took second and third place in the discipline's rankings.

The 2024 World Cup Downhill Champion Cornelia Huetter won the first Downhill of the season in the Women's premiere at the Birds of Prey racecourse in Beaver Creek. Sofia Goggia finished in second place, 0.16 seconds behind the Austrian. Lara Gut-Behrami rounded up the podium in third place, 0.34 seconds off the pace.

Huetter celebrated her second consecutive Downhill victory, having also won the last race of the previous season at Saalbach during the Alpine Ski World Cup Finals. This win marked her third overall in this discipline.

Federica Brignone claimed her first Alpine Ski World Cup Downhill victory in St. Anton.

Swiss young talent Malorie Blanc finished in second position just 0.07 seconds behind the Italian. With bib 46 the Super-G Junior World Champion delivered an outstanding performance to achieve her first podium in her second race in the World Cup. Remarkably, the 21-year-old reached the podium in her first Downhill race only a month after her World Cup debut in St. Moritz. Her result today is even greater when you consider that she tore her cruciate ligament in February, shortly after winning gold in the Super-G and silver in the Downhill at the Junior World Championships in Chatel in January 2024.

Ester Ledecka finished in third place 0.18 seconds behind Brignone, her best World Cup Downhill result in almost three years.

Lindsey Vonn put in an unexpectedly strong performance in her second race after a six-year break, finishing sixth.

Sofia Goggia won the third Downhill of the Alpine Ski World Cup season in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Goggia imposed her all-on aggressive style at the iconic Olympia delle Tofane to win her first and only World Cup Downhill of the 2024-2025 winter season. It's her 4th win at the Olympia delle Tofane (2018, 2022, 2023, and 2024).

Kajsa Vickhoff Lie finished in second position 0.42 seconds behind Goggia to achieve her 7th podium in the Alpine Ski World Cup, the 3rd one in the Downhill.

Federica Brignone rounded up the podium in third place, 0.55 seconds behind her teammate.

Federica Brignone claimed her second Alpine Ski World Cup Downhill victory in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Sofia Goggia finished in second place, just 0.01 seconds behind her teammate. The 32-year-old Italian skier had five career podiums in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, four in the Downhill, and one in the Super-G. She finished second in four consecutive races in the Kandahar racecourse in 2018 and 2019.

Corinne Suter finished in third place, 0.19 seconds behind Brignone. She celebrated her season's second podium. The Swiss skier finished third at the Olimpia delle Tofane in Cortina d'Ampezzo a year after tearing her cruciate ligament. It was her first World Cup podium since finishing third in the downhill at Kvitfjell in March 2023.

Cornelia Huetter won the first of two Downhill Alpine Ski World Cup races in Kvitfjell. Hütter finished 0.15 seconds ahead of the unexpected German runner-up, Emma Aicher, while world champion Breezy Johnson (+0.44) finished in third place. It's Hütter's fourth Downhill and ninth World Cup victory.

After achieving her first podium finish in the Alpine Ski World Cup the day before, 21-year-old all-rounder Emma Aicher celebrated her first World Cup victory in the second Downhill held in Kvitfjell. The 22-year-old US skier Lauren Macuga finished in second place, just 0.03 seconds behind Aicher. Cornelia Hütter rounded out the podium, finishing 0.19 seconds off the pace.

It's the first German World Cup victory in the Downhill since Viktoria Rebensburg won in 2020 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Since then, only Lena Dürr has been able to celebrate a German women's World Cup victory in the Slalom at Spindleruv Mlyn in January 2023.