Who to watch? Beaver Creek Men's Alpine Ski World Cup Super-G
- Raúl Revuelta
- 6 days ago
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The 2025–2026 Men's FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Super-G season will continue with the second race of 2025 at the challenging Birds of Prey racecourse in Beaver Creek.
The Birds of Prey course in Beaver Creek first hosted an Alpine Ski World Cup Super-G race in December 1997. A total of 23 Super-G races have been held there since then.
Beaver Creek (USA)
December 5th Super-G / Men 11:15 LOC / 19:15 CET
Due to the weather forecast for the upcoming days, the Men’s Audi FIS Ski World Cup Super-G in Beaver Creek, originally scheduled for Saturday, 6 December, has been moved to Friday, 5 December, to maximize the chances of delivering a successful race.
Marco Odermatt won the first Alpine Ski World Cup Super-G of the season in Copper Mountain. In a close race, he beat Vincent Kriechmayr by just 0.08 seconds. World Champion Raphael Haaser secured third place, finishing just 0.13 seconds behind the leader.
Defending Super-G World Cup Champion Marco Odermatt is the Man everyone aims to beat. Last season, Odermatt won his third straight Super-G Crystal Globe. Stefan Rogentin and Vincent Kriechmayr came second and third, respectively, in the discipline standings.
Odermatt is the fifth man to win three or more Super-G season titles, joining Kjetil Jansrud, who has also three. 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 Svindal from 2012 to 2014 to win three Super-G World Cup titles in a row. Maier holds the Men's record with four Super-G Globes in a row from 1998-2001.
Marco Odermatt has finished in the top 10 in each of his last 25 World Cup Super-G races, reaching the podium in 19 of them and winning 12 times during this period. This is the longest streak in Super-G World Cup history.
Last season, he finished in the Super-G podium 4 times, including three wins in Beaver Creek, Kitzbühel, and Crans-Montana.
The Swiss Ace is the third man to win at least 16 World Cup Super-G World Cup races, after Hermann Maier (24) and Aksel Lund Svindal (17).
Marco Odermatt has finished on the Super-G podium 26 times. He is now tied with Kjetil Jansrud in joint third place on the all-time men's list behind Hermann Maier (38) and Aksel Lund Svindal (30).
Yesterday in the Downhill, Marco Odermatt secured his 48th World Cup victory across all disciplines.
Marco Odermatt and Hannes Reichelt are the skiers with the most World Cup Super-G victories on US slopes, with four wins each. Reichelt's most recent victory came in Aspen during the 2016–17 season, while Odermatt won last season's event in Beaver Creek.
Odermatt's triumph prevented a sound Austrian victory, relegating three Austrians, Vincent Kriechmayr, Raphael Haaser, and Stefan Babinsky, to second, third, and fourth place, respectively.
Vincent Kriechmayr finished second in the Alpine Ski World Cup Super-G season opener in Copper Mountain. Despite not winning any races in the 2024–2025 winter season, he finished third in the Super-G standings. This was his eighth consecutive Top-three finish in the Super-G standings dating back to the 2017–2018 season. He won the Super-G Crystal Globe in the 2020–2021 season.
Vincent Kriechmayr has claimed nine World Cup victories in both the Super-G and Downhill events. If he wins one more race in each discipline, he will become the 11th man to achieve the 'double-double' of 10+ wins in two disciplines. After Hermann Maier (24 Super-G, 15 Downhill), Aksel Lund Svindal (17 Super-G, 14 Downhill), and Pirmin Zurbriggen (10 Super-G, 10 Downhill), he would become the fourth man to achieve the 'speed double-double'.
If Vincent Kriechmayr finishes in the Top-3 in Beaver Creek, he will equal Stephan Eberharter's record for the most podium finishes by an Austrian Men’s World Cup Super-G skier. Eberharter finished in the top three in a Super-G World Cup race 24 times. Hermann Maier tops the list with 38 Super-G World Cup podium finishes.
Raphael Haaser claimed his 6th career World Cup Super-G podium in Copper Mountain. He is yet to find his first win, but has four top-5 finishes, including three podiums, in his past five Super-G races.
Haaser came second in the Super-G at the 2025 World Championships in Saalbach.
Stefan Babinsky is chasing a first-ever World Cup Super-G podium finish. The Austrian finished 4th in Copper Mountain, equalling his best World Cup Super-G result. He also finished 4th in Super-G in Cortina d’Ampezzo and Aspen in the 2022-2023 winter season.
Austria is the most successful nation in the history of the Beaver Creek Super-G, having claimed ten wins so far. They are also the only nation to have achieved a podium sweep in a World Cup Super-G race in Beaver Creek. This feat was first achieved in 1997 with Hermann Maier, Stephan Eberharter, and Hans Knauss, and then in 2007 with Hannes Reichelt, Mario Scheiber, and Christoph Gruber.
Despite not winning any races last season, Stefan Rogentin finished second in the overall Super-G standings, his career-best result. He scored points in all eight races, finishing on the podium twice and in the Top 10 six times. The only other two skiers to score points in every 2024–25 Super-G race were his teammates, Marco Odermatt and Justin Murisier.
Stefan Rogentin's consistent performance saw him finish on the podium four times across both speed disciplines.
Last season in Kvitfjell, Dominik Paris recorded his fifth career World Cup Super-G win. The 36-year-old Italian won a shortened race ahead of Canadian James Crawford and Slovenian Miha Hrobat. This was Paris' sixth win on the Olympiabakken, with four Downhill victories in 2016, 2019, 2022, and 2025, and two Super-G wins in 2019 and 2025. It was his 24th World Cup victory and 50th World Cup podium, making him the 24th man to reach this milestone.
Paris is the most successful Italian men's World Cup super-G skier. He has achieved 32 Top 10 finishes, 17 podiums, and five wins.
Four skiers recorded their first career World Cup wins in Super-G last season: Italian Mattia Casse in Val Gardena, Norwegian Fredrik Moeller in Bormio, Swiss Franjo Von Allmen in Wengen, and Austrian Lukas Feurstein in Sun Valley.
Feurstein was the only skier to step on the podium in both of last season's USA Super-G races. His third-place finish in Beaver Creek was his first career Alpine Ski World Cup podium, and he secured his first career win in Sun Valley.
Franjo von Allmen finished second in the Downhill standings and fourth in the Super-G standings in the 2024–25 winter season. Following a victory in Wengen and two third-place finishes in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Sun Valley last season, he began the new season with a ninth-place finish in the Super-G in Copper Mountain and fourth place in yesterday's Downhill.
Aleksander Aamodt Kilde made his return to the Alpine Ski World Cup in the Super-G event in Copper Mountain. After an absence of 685 days following his terrible accident at the end of the Wengen Downhill in January 2014, he returned to the World Cup, finishing in 24th place, 1.25 seconds behind Odermatt.
The 33-year-old is widely regarded as one of the greatest speed skiers of all time. He has achieved 21 victories in the Alpine Ski World Cup, with 12 wins in Downhill and nine in Super-G. He has also achieved 44 podiums, with 20 in Downhill and 24 in Super-G. Additionally, he has won five Crystal Globes, with two in Downhill, two in Super-G, and one Overall. Kilde is second among Norwegian men for most World Cup Downhill wins, only behind Aksel Lund Svindal (14).
Kilde won both of the Super-G races he started at Beaver Creek in 2021 and 2022.
No US male skier has ever won a Super-G World Cup on home snow. The best result was achieved in Beaver Creek during the 2015–2016 winter season, when two American skiers finished in the top three: Ted Ligety came second and Andrew Weibrecht third.
Team USA has gone 34 races without a Men’s Super G World Cup win. Ryan Cochran-Siegle was the last to win a race, achieving his only World Cup victory in the 2020 Bormio Super-G. Yesterday, he finished in second place in the Downhill. Cochran-Siegle’s second place is the first time in more than 10 years that a U.S skier has stepped onto the Downhill podium in Beaver Creek since Steven Nyman finished third here in 2014. It's his 4th World Cup podium.
Travis Ganong was the last American to finish on the podium in a Beaver Creek Super-G World Cup race, achieving third place in 2021.