Women's Alpine Ski World Cup Slalom in Levi
The 2026–2027 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Slalom season will begin on the 'Levi Black' slope in Levi, Finland, on Saturday, 14 November. The Slalom Season opener will once again bring together the world’s best male and female Slalom skiers. In 2024, the Men's World Cup Slalom returned to Levi after a four-year absence.
Levi has hosted 25 Alpine Ski World Cup women's Slalom races.
Mikaela Shiffrin and Petrá Vlhová have won the past 14 Slalom races in Levi. The last winner not to be one of these two was Tina Maze, who finished ahead of Frida Hansdotter and Kathrin Zettel in 2014.
Last season, Mikaela Shiffrin delivered an outstanding performance in Levi's first Alpine Ski World Cup Slalom of the season. With two flawless runs, she recorded the fastest time in both and secured a commanding victory, finishing 1.66 seconds ahead of Lara Colturi and 2.59 seconds ahead of Emma Aicher.
Shiffrin's nine Slalom victories in Levi (2013, 2016, 2018, 2019, twice in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025) set a new record for victories in this discipline at a single venue. Only Lindsey Vonn (14 Downhill in Lake Louise) has recorded more than seven World Cup wins in a specific event at a single resort among Women's skiers. Shiffrin has only finished off the podium three times in her 17 Slalom World Cup appearances in Levi.
Apart from Mikaela Shiffrin, only three athletes have won the Levi Slalom race more than once: Petra Vlhova, six times; Maria Höfl-Riesch, three times; and Marlies Schild, twice.
This season, Mikaela Shiffrin will not be present at the start gate of the "Levi Black" slope. In a video on her YouTube channel released on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, Mikaela Shiffrin shared her approach to the 2026-27 winter season. She is calling it “The Exploration Season”: more focus on Giant Slalom and Super-G, and a reduced Slalom schedule that begins at the Stifel Killington Cup.
Despite Petra Vlhova still finding her form after returning from injury, a podium position would see her join Vreni Schneider on 47 World Cup Slalom podiums, which is the third-highest among women. Mikaela Shiffrin (99) and Marlies Schild (56) are the top two.
Last season, Mikaela Shiffrin secured the Slalom Crystal Globe by earning 980 points out of a possible 1000 in the Alpine Ski World Cup Slalom season, achieving nine wins and one second-place finish. The Swiss duo of Camille Rast (538 points) and Wendy Holdener (498 points) finished in second and third place, respectively.
Leading the list of skiers aiming to become the first Levi winner in 12 years is Camille Rast. The 27-year-old skier from Valais was the only skier, besides Shiffrin, to win a World Cup Slalom race during the 2025-2026 winter season. Rast also secured four additional podium finishes, including three second-place finishes. This performance was sufficient to elevate her to second place in the Slalom standings, after finishing third the previous year. The 2026 Olympic Slalom silver medalist has the potential to continue this upward trend and clinch her first-ever Globe.
If Camille Rast wins, she will tie Corinne Schmidhauser with four slalom victories, placing her fourth among Swiss women. This ranks behind Vreni Schneider, who has 34 wins, Erika Hess with 21, and Lise-Marie Morerod with 10 wins. A podium finish for Rast would also allow her to surpass Sonja Nef, who has 8 podiums, and match the now-retired Michelle Gisin, who has 9 slalom podiums. This would place Rast fourth among Swiss women in terms of slalom podiums as well.
Wendy Holdener starts the new season seeking just her third Slalom World Cup win. She has been on the World Cup podium 55 times so far (41 in Slalom), with only five wins: two in Slalom (both in the 2022-2023 season), two in Alpine Combined, and one in a City Event. In addition, she has won five Olympic medals and nine World Championship medals.
Wendy Holdener secured second place in the final Slalom race last season in Hafjell, which guaranteed her a third-place finish in the Slalom Globe standings. This achievement made Holdener the fifth woman this century—and the first from Switzerland—to reach six career top-3 finishes in the Slalom Crystal Globe. Holdener finished third in the Slalom standings in 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2025; and second in 2018 and 2023. She joins Anja Paerson and Petra Vlhova, who also have six top-3 finishes, while Mikaela Shiffrin (12) and Marlies Schild (9) lead the rankings.
The 33-year-old Swiss skier has been on the Levi podium four times, second in 2016, 2019, and 2022; and third in 2017.
Katharina Truppe had her best season in slalom during her 11 years at the World Cup level, finishing 4th in the slalom standings, just 57 points behind 3rd place, held by Wendy Holdener. Last season, she achieved a top-6 finish in 8 out of 10 slalom races, which tied her for the 2nd-highest number of top-6 finishes alongside Holdener. Previously, Truppe had never recorded more than 3 top-6 finishes in a season, which she accomplished during the 2019-2020 season. Notably, she has reached the podium in slalom events for the past four consecutive seasons.
Truppe now boasts 21 career top-6 finishes in slalom, ranking her 10th among Austrian women in this category. She needs just one more top-6 finish to equal Anita Wachter and Sabine Egger, both of whom have 22 finishes, and two more to match Monika Maierhofer's total of 23.
Lara Colturi is seeking her first career win in the Alpine Ski World Cup. A victory would not only be her first but would also mark a historic moment as the first-ever win for Albania.
She claimed four Slalom podiums last season, including two second places in Levi and Gurgl, while her third place in Semmering saw her become the 100th woman to reach 5 career Slalom podiums. Colturi's 8 career podiums (5 in Slalom, 3 in Giant Slalom) have single-handedly made Albania the 23rd most successful nation for total World Cup podiums (8), behind Poland (11) and ahead of the Soviet Union (5).
In 2024, she achieved her first podium finish at the Gurgl Slalom, just days after turning 18. Colturi made her World Cup debut in the Levi Slalom three years ago, merely four days after her 16th birthday. This year's Levi Slalom will be one day before her 20th birthday.
Lara Colturi reached a World Cup podium for the second time in the Giant Slalom discipline in Sölden.
Emma Aicher, who last year came within a whisker of the overall title, aims to excel across all four disciplines again this season. She was the only skier to score points in all four disciplines last season. She finished 2nd in the Overall standings, just 87 points behind Mikaela Shiffrin, and placed 6th in the Slalom Globe. Aicher also placed 2nd in the Downhill Globe and 3rd in the Super-G Globe. However, it was in Slalom where she achieved the most podium finishes last season, with a total of five, which was the second highest alongside Camille Rast.
The 23-year-old skier, whose birthday is on November 13, the day before the race, has 14 World Cup podiums already under her belt.
The all-rounder skier claimed her first Giant Slalom podium in Sölden.
Emma Aicher and Lara Colturi are arguably the most promising talents of the younger generation.
In Sölden, Paula Moltzan secured her first Alpine Ski World Cup victory. The American skier finished 0.01 seconds ahead of Lara Colturi, with Emma Aicher completing the podium 0.52 seconds behind Moltzan. At 32 years old, in her 149th World Cup start, Moltzan claimed her maiden win and 11th podium. She surpassed Anna Swenn Larsson as the oldest first-time winner. The Swede was 31 years and five months old when she won in Killington on November 27, 2022.
What makes the story even more special is the fact that it was her first race with the new equipment from Van Deer.
Finishing in the top five in seven out of ten races last season showed that Moltzan, who was previously unpredictable, is becoming more consistent.
Lena Dürr starts the new season seeking just her second World Cup victory in Slalom. She has been on the podium in 17 Slalom races between the 2021-2022 and 2025-2026 winter seasons, but her only victory came in Špindleruv Mlýn on 29 January 2023.
The German skier has made the podium in 3 of the last 4 Slalom races in Levi (twice in 2023-2024 and 2024-2025) and finished tied 4th there last season alongside Paula Moltzan. Duerr and Wendy Holdener have 9 Top-6 Slalom finishes in Levi, which is the 3rd-highest behind Mikaela Shiffrin and Petra Vlhova.
The 35-year-old skier will make her 149th World Cup Slalom start in Levi, which is the highest among all women in World Cup history. Other active skiers in the top 10 for career Slalom starts include Wendy Holdener (136), Anna Swenn Larsson (132), and absent Mikaela Shiffrin (128).
A podium for Anna Swenn Larsson would see her become the 29th woman from any nation (and 4th from Sweden) to reach 15 SL podiums. The Swedish athlete has 14 Slalom World Cup podium finishes in total. She won two slalom events: in Killington in 2022 and in Soldeu in 2024.
Swenn-Larsson was the silver medallist behind Mikaela Shiffrin in the Slalom at the 2019 World Championships in Åre.
She finished in second place in Levi in 2022, her only podium finish in the Finnish resort.
Sara Hector finished in the Top 10 of the Slalom standings last season for the fourth season in a row. She is a Giant Slalom specialist and the current Olympic Giant Slalom Champion, but she has been on a Slalom World Cup podium three times during the last three seasons. Hector's third-place finish in the Night Slalom in Flachau in 2024 marks her first podium in this discipline in the Alpine Ski World Cup.
Hector’s best result in Levi is a fourth-place finish in 2023-2024.
In the rankings of Alpine Ski World Cup Slalom wins combined for both women's and men's events, Austria (223), France (135), and the USA (131) lead. Sweden and Switzerland are tied for fourth place with 108 World Cup Slalom wins each.
Austria leads the list for podium finishes in the Slalom Alpine Ski World Cup (combining both the women's and men's categories), with a total of 702 podiums. France ranks second with 371, followed by Sweden in third place with 321. Switzerland is fourth with 303, while the United States is fifth with 289, and Italy follows closely in sixth with 288.
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