
Courchevel's Slalom is the 7th of 10 Slalom races scheduled on the 2024-2025 Alpine Ski World Cup calendar and the last before the Saalbach Alpine World Ski Championships.
Courchevel (FRA)
January 30th Slalom / Women (Night Event) 17:00 CET 1st run 20:00 CET 2nd run
Mikaela Shiffrin, the winningest skier in Alpine Ski World Cup history, is set to return to competition in Courchevel, 60 days after her injury. In Gurgl, Mikaela Shiffrin claimed her 99th Alpine Skiing World Cup win. Of her impressive 99 World Cup victories, 62 have come in Slalom. The 29-year-old US skier is just one victory away from the "hundred" milestone. In Courchevel, she will have the chance to reach the 100th mark in the Slalom race on Thursday.
Shiffrin has achieved 154 World Cup podium finishes across all disciplines and is on the verge of matching Ingemar Stenmark's record of 155 for any Alpine ski racer.
Shiffrin has won the last six World Cup Slalom events that she has started. She can win at least seven in a row for the third time, and first time since she won seven in a row from March 2018 to January 2019. Her personal record is 12 Slalom consecutive victories from February 2015 to December 2016.
Camille Rast claimed victory in the most recent Slalom event in Flachau, finishing ahead of Wendy Holdener by 0.16 seconds and Sara Hector by 0.38 seconds. This marks the second Slalom win of the season for the 25-year-old Swiss skier. Rast currently leads both the overall and discipline standings.
With a fifth-place finish at the Slalom opener in Levi, a third place in Gurgl, her maiden win in Slalom in Killington, two fourth places in Semmering and Kranjska Gora, and her win in Flachau, Rast has established herself as a key contender this season.
Wendy Holdener is second in the Slalom standings with 345 points. She made her Slalom comeback in Levi. She finished 16th. In Gurgl, the 31-year-old Swiss finished fourth, just 0.18 seconds off the podium. She claimed her first podium of the season in Killington, sharing second place with Anna Swenn Larsson. In Semmering, she finished sixth. In Kranjska Gora Holdener returned to the World Cup podium finishing second behind Ljutic. In Flachau she finished in second place. It was her 38th podium in Slalom and the 19th time she has finished second in a World Cup Slalom. No Woman finished runner-up as many times in the World Cup Slalom events as Holdener.
She is sixth on the all-time World Cup Slalom podiums behind Mikaela Shiffrin (86), Marlies Schild (56), Vreni Schneider (47), Petra Vlhova (46), and Erika Hess (42).
Zrinka Ljutic won the last Alpine Ski World Cup race of 2024, the Slalom in Semmering, and the first one of 2025 in Kranjska Gora in dominant fashion after setting the fastest time in both runs. The last Croatian to win a World Cup race was Janica Kostelic in Are in 2006. Ljutic became the youngest woman to win a World Cup slalom since Shiffrin, then 20, won in Jasná in March 2016.
Katharina Liensberger has won three World Cup Slalom races and finished on the podium 16 times. The four Austrian women to have claimed more than three World Cup Slalom victories are Marlies Schild (35), Roswitha Steiner (8), Gertrud Gabl (5), and Nicole Hosp (5). In the absence of Petra Vlhova, Katharina Liensberger is the only woman other than Shiffrin to have won more than two World Cup slalom races in her career.
Katharina Liensberger won the Slalom Crystal Globe in 2021.
Liensberger took silver in the Slalom behind gold medallist Petra Vlhova at the Beijing Olympic Winter Games.
In Cortina 2020, Liensberger posted the fastest times in both slalom runs, finishing well ahead of Petra Vhlova and Mikaela Shiffrin to take the gold medal. She was the first Austrian woman to reach the world championship podium in the Slalom since Michaela Kirchgasser (silver) in 2013. The last Austrian to win the Women's slalom world title was Marlies Schild in 2011.
Liensberger is fouth in the Slalom standings with 284 points.
Lena Dürr is currently fifth in the Slalom standings with 261 points. In Courchevel, she will be aiming for her second Slalom World Cup victory after her win in Špindleruv Mlýn on 29 January 2023. Dürr could become the oldest skier to win a World Cup Slalom. Currently, the record is held by Anna Swenn Larsson, who won in Soldeu at the age of 32 years, 7 months, and 23 days. Only two other women have won a World Cup slalom event after their 32nd birthday: Marlies Schild (two victories at age 32) and Veronika Velez-Zuzulová (one victory at age 32).
Anna Swenn Larsson is currently in sixth place in the Slalom standings with 206 points. She has won two Slalom races in the World Cup. Swenn-Larsson shared first place with Wendy Holdener at Killington on 27 November 2022. In Soldeu in February, she claimed her second World Cup victory. The Swede has 14 Slalom World Cup podiums to her name.
Swenn-Larsson was the silver medallist behind Mikaela Shiffrin in the Slalom at the 2019 World Championships in Åre.
Melanie Meillard finished in the Top 10 in all the Slalom events this season: 7th in Levi, 10th in Gurgl, 5th in Killington, 7th in Semmering, 5th in Karnjska Gora, and 5th again in Flachau. The 26-year-old Swiss skier is ranked seventh in the Slalom standings with 233 points.
Sara Hector claimed in Flachau her second podium in Slalom in the Alpine Ski World Cup. The 32-year-old Swedish skier celebrated in the Giant Slalom in Kranjska Gora her 7th Alpine Ski World Cup victory.
Hector is in 8th place in the World Cup Slalom standings with 211 points.
Hector is chasing her first World Cup Slalom victory and can become the third woman from Sweden to win in both Giant Slalom and Slalom in the World Cup. The other two are Anja Pärson and Pernilla Wiberg.
Lara Colturi finished second in Gurgl, just 0.55 seconds behind Shiffrin. The 18-year-old Albanian skier, who worked her way up from 4th to 2nd place, secured her first podium finish in the World Cup. Before Gurgl, the best World Cup result for Lara Colturi, daughter of Olympic champion Daniela Ceccarelli, was ninth place in the Night Slalom in Flachau last season. She is the first skier from Albania to climb onto the World Cup podium.
Colturi is currently in 10th place in the World Cup Slalom standings with 170 points.
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