Who to Watch? Tremblant Women's Alpine Ski World Cup Giant Slalom

The 2025–2026 Women's FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Giant Slalom season will continue in Tremblant, Canada with two Giant Slalom events.

Tremblant previously hosted two consecutive World Cup Giant Slalom events in 2023. Federica Brignone won both of these events. Brignone and the runners-up from the previous two races, Petra Vlhova and Lara Gut-Behrami, will all be absent this weekend. Mikaela Shiffrin, who came third in both, is the only active skier with a previous World Cup podium finish at Tremblant.

Tremblant (CAN)

December 6th Giant Slalom / Women 1 Run 11:00 LOC / 17:00 CET - 2 Run 14:15 LOC / 20:15 CET

December 7th Giant Slalom / Women   1 Run 11:00 LOC / 17:00 CET - 2 Run 14:15 LOC / 20:15 CET

Alice Robinson won the Alpine Ski World Cup Giant Slalom in Copper Mountain thanks to two furious runs. The 23-year-old recorded the fastest time in both runs, finishing 0.96 seconds ahead of Julia Scheib. Thea Louise Stjernesund took third place, finishing 1.08 seconds behind Robinson.

The New Zealander has won five World Cup Giant Slalom races and has finished on the podium 18 times. After Copper Mountain's win, Robinson became the most successful female Alpine Ski World Cup racer from a nation outside Europe or North America.

On October 26, 2019, Alice Robinson won the women's World Cup Giant Slalom event in Sölden at age 17. She became the youngest winner of a World Cup event since Mikaela Shiffrin, who was also 17 years old when she won her first World Cup event (in 2012-2013) in Åre in December 2012.

She is coming off the most consistent season of her career, finishing second in the Giant Slalom ranking, 60 points behind Federica Brignone. With seven Giant Slalom World Cup podium finishes (and two DNFs) and a silver medal in the Alpine World Ski Championships in Saalbach, only a fantastic Brignone prevented Robinson from being crowned the best Giant Slalom skier of the 2024-2025 Alpine Ski World Cup winter season.

Julia Scheib won the Women's Alpine Ski World Cup opener held in Soelden and finished second in Cooper Mountain. The 27-year-old Austrian skier has claimed 4 World Cup podiums. It's the first time that an Austrian skier has finished on the podium in two consecutive Women’s World Cup Giant Slalom races since Eva-Maria Brem made three Giant Slalom podiums in a row in the 2015-2016 winter season.

Austrian Julia Scheib's victory in 2025 on the Rettenbach Glacier in Soelden, the first of her Alpine Ski World Cup career, ended the Austrian Women's Team's long drought in the Giant Slalom. Before today, the last win in the discipline for the Austrian Women's Ski Team was achieved by Eva-Maria Brem in Jasna in 2016. Since then, the ski team has not won a single victory in 79 races. This extended wait has been the longest experienced by any discipline within the Austrian team.

With Copper Mountain's second place, Scheib consolidates her leadership in the Giant Slalom standings with 180 points. Alice Robinson is now second with 132 points.

Historically, the women’s World Cup Giant Slalom has been dominated by Austria, with 94 race victories and 278 podium finishes — the most in both categories by any national Team. Switzerland is second in both categories, with 83 victories and 211 podium finishes in the Giant Slalom.

Thea Louise Stjernesund’s third-place finish in the Giant Slalom at Copper Mountain was her fourth career World Cup podium in the discipline, moving her into third place for the most podiums in the event by a Norwegian female skier, behind Andrine Flemmen with 10 and Ragnhild Mowinckel with 5.

Last season was the second time Mikaela Shiffrin failed to finish in the Top three of the Giant Slalom rankings. She was in the top three from the 2016–17 to the 2022–23 World Cup seasons, including victories in 2018-2019 and 2022-2023. 22 of her impressive 103 World Cup victories come in Giant Slalom. With seven Giant Slalom victories in the 2022-2023 winter season, Mikaela Shiffrin surpassed Vreni Schneider's record of 20 wins. On March 10, 2023, Shiffrin equaled Schneider's record in Åre, only to break it nine days later in Soldeu. She achieved her last Giant Slalom victory in Lienz in December 2023 and her last podium in January 2024 in Jasna.

In a breathtaking display of talent and determination, Mikaela Shiffrin (Vail, Colorado, March 13, 1995), the winningest alpine skier of all time, reached an incredible milestone last Saturday, claiming 103 wins in 284 races at the Alpine World Ski Cup. Shiffrin claimed her 103 World Cup win in Gurgl on Sunday, 23 November.

She finished on the podium 159 times in 284 Alpine Ski World Cup starts. No male or female skier has claimed more podiums in the World Cup than Shiffrin.

In 2018, Shiffrin fulfilled her goal of reaching the top of the podium in the Giant Slalom at the Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang.

Shiffrin finished fourth in the Giant Slalom in Sölden in October. With 43 podium finishes in the women’s Giant Slalom World Cup, she sits third on the all-time list. She is one podium ahead of Federica Brignone (42), two behind Anita Wachter, and three behind leader Vreni Schneider, who has achieved 46 podium finishes.

Sara Hector claimed 21 of her 24 World Cup podiums in the Giant Slalom, including seven wins in Courchevel, Kranjska Gora, Kronplatz in the 2021-2022 winter season, Jasna in 2024, Killington, and Kranjska Gora last season. In 2022, an inner ligament injury deprived her of becoming the second Swedish winner of the Women's Giant Slalom Crystal Globe, after Anja Pärson (2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2005-2006). Hector won the Olympic Giant Slalom gold in Beijing.

In 2024, she finished in third place in the Giant Slalom standings.

Paula Moltzan's second-place finish in Soelden was her best Giant Slalom result to date, having previously finished third in the Giant Slalom in Kronplatz in the 2024–25 winter season. Despite achieving six World Cup podium finishes since the 2020–21 season, Moltzan has yet to win a World Cup race.