Gurgl Alpine Ski World Cup Races Preview

Clement Noel. Gurgl 2024 Slalom Winner. Picture: Erich Spiess / Red Bull Content Pool

Gurgl, Austria, will host the second Slalom event of the season. The Gurgl Alpine Ski World Cup will take place at the Kirchenkar Gurgl racecourse in Hochgurgl from November 22 to 23, 2025.

It will be the third time Hochgurgl appears on the Alpine Ski World Cup Calendar. The first World Cup event took place on November 18, 2023. Gurgl is the 24th Austrian venue to host an Alpine Ski World Cup event.

The race starts on the Kirchenkar slope in Hochgurgl and ends 320 m above the Top Mountain Crosspoint.

Technical Data Kirchenkar Gurgl racecourse

• Start Altitude: 2,475 m

• Finish Altitude: 2,265 m

• Vertical Drop: 210m

• Length of race track: 548 m

• Lowest gradient: 18 %

• Steepest section: 62 %

• Average gradient: 38.3 %

Gurgl (AUT)

November 22nd Slalom / Men

November 23rd Slalom / Women

Saturday, 22.11.2025

• 10:30 CET 1st run

• 13:30 CET 2nd run

  
  

Sunday, 23.11.2025

• 10:30 CET 1st run

• 13:30 CET 2nd run

Update 11.13.2025: After today's official snow control, the #AlpineSkiWorldCup races in #Gurgl are confirmed.

Last season, a week after his triumph in Levi, Finland, Clement Noel once again set the pace in the first run of the race in Gurgl to claim another victory in the Slalom. The Frenchman relegated the Norwegian Atle Lie McGrath to second place with a lead of 0.88 seconds and Steven Amiez with 0.94 seconds.

In the second run, Noel managed to defend his Top position against the attack from Swedish Kristoffer Jakobsen. In the end, he was able to hold off Jakobsen (+0.44) and Atle Lie McGrath (+0.45). Noel's second run was far from perfect, it was only the 20th fastest, but his huge lead from the first run allowed him to win despite making several mistakes.

Obergurgl-Hochgurgl Ski Resort. December 2022. Picture: Ski Paradise

Gurgl is a village in the municipality of Soelden, in the Ötztal Valley, Tirol. The Obergurgl-Hochgurgl ski resort is one of the first open winter ski areas in the Alpine region. In 2025, the ski season starts in Gurgl on November 20.

Thanks to its location - at the southern end of the Ötztal Valley, also known as the Gurgl Valley, on the border with Italy-, surrounded by peaks up to 3500 m high and several glaciers, the largest of which is the Gurgler Ferner-, in combination with an excellent snowmaking infrastructure (with a capacity of 5000 m³ of snow per hour), Obergurgl-Hochgurg is one of the snow-surest ski areas in the Alps. There are not many places in the Alps, outside of the glaciers, where skiers can enjoy excellent conditions from November to May.

The ski area known by the nickname "Diamond of the Alps" is located between 1,800 and 3,080 meters above sea level. The ski resorts of Obergurgl and Hochgurgl are linked by the Top-Express gondola lift. The 50 8-person cabins, with a capacity of up to 1,200 people per hour, transport skiers in just 9 minutes along a 3.6 km scenic route over the picturesque Königstal and Ferwalltal valleys.

Ski-in and ski-out Obergurgl-Hochgurgl has a modern network of 24 lifts and 112 km of slopes divided into: 60.2 km of easy slopes (blue), 33.2 km of intermediate slopes (red), 14.3 km of difficult slopes (black), and 4,5 km of ski routes.