2025 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's giant slalom

2025 Men's Giant slalom World Cup
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The men's giant slalom in the 2025 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup is scheduled to consist of nine events, including the final.[1] The season opened in Sölden, Austria on 27 October 2024. Through the first four events of this season, the discipline has had four different leaders.

The season will be interrupted for the Alpine Skiing World Championships, this time in Saalbach, Austria during 4-16 February 2025.[2] The championship in men's giant slalom is scheduled for Friday, 14 February.

Season summary

The first giant slalom of the season, scheduled as usual on the Rettenbach glacier in Sölden, Austria in October, resulted in a Norwegian podium sweep, with Alexander Steen Olsen leading the pack.[3] In their returns from retirement, former Norwegian star Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, now of Brazil after one year away, finished fourth, and former Austrian superstar Marcel Hirscher, now of the Netherlands after five years away, finished 23rd.[3] Pinheiro Braathen then assumed the overall lead by one point over Steen Olsen in the second race of the season at Beaver Creek, Colorado (USA), when he narrowly finished second (for Brazil's first-ever World Cup podium finish) behind only Thomas Tumler of Switzerland in Tumler's first World Cup victory (at the same site where he had his first podium finish in 2018).[4]

Back in Europe, at Val d'Isére (France), three-time defending discipline champion Marco Odermatt of Switzer4land scored his first points of the season with a narrow victory during dark and snowy conditions, but current Norwegian star Henrik Kristoffersen took over the discipline lead from Braathen with a fifth-pace finish.[5] The very next week, Odermatt won the giant slalom in Alta Badia and took over first place in the discipline from Kristofferson by one point (200 to 199).[6]

Finals

The World Cup finals in the discipline are scheduled to take place on Wednesday, 26 March 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho, USA.[7] Only the top 25 skiers in the World Cup giant slalom discipline and the winner of the Junior World Championship in the discipline, plus any skiers who have scored at least 500 points in the World Cup overall classification for the season, are eligible to compete in the final, and only the top 15 earn World Cup points.

Standings

Venue
27 Oct 2024
Sölden
8 Dec 2024
Beaver Creek
14 Dec 2024
Val d'Isère
22 Dec 2024
Alta Badia
11 Jan 2025
Adelboden
28 Jan 2025
Schladming
14 Feb 2025
Saalbach

WC
1 Mar 2025
Kranjska Gora
15 Mar 2025
Hafjell
26 Mar 2025
Sun Valley
# Skier Austria United States France Italy  Switzerland Austria Austria Slovenia Norway United States Total
1  Switzerland  Marco Odermatt DNF1 DNF2 100 100 200
2 NorwayHenrik Kristoffersen 80 45 45 29 199
3 NorwayAlexander Steen Olsen 100 29 DNS 60 189
4 Slovenia Žan Kranjec 40 60 32 36 168
5 NorwayAtle Lie McGrath 60 50 10 40 160
6 Brazil Lucas Pinheiro Braathen 50 80 DNF2 9 139
7  Switzerland  Thomas Tumler 18 100 6 DNF2 124
Austria Patrick Feurstein 32 DNQ 80 12 124
9 Italy Luca De Aliprandini 26 32 40 20 118
10 Croatia Filip Zubčić DNF2 40 26 50 116
11 France Léo Anguenot 7 18 6 80 111
12 Austria Stefan Brennsteiner DNF1 26 60 18 104
13 NorwayTimon Haugan 22 5 22 45 94
14 United States River Radamus 24 36 14 16 90
15  Switzerland  Gino Caviezel 29 14 24 22 89
16 Italy Alex Vinatzer 45 8 DNF1 32 85
17 France Thibaut Favrot 16 24 9 26 65
18  Switzerland  Luca Aerni DNS 50 14 64
 Switzerland  Loïc Meillard DNS 20 29 15 64
20 Germany Alexander Schmid 15 22 16 DNS 53
21 Andorra Joan Verdú DNS 16 36 DNF1 52
22 Austria Raphael Haaser 36 11 DNF1 DNS 47
23 Belgium Sam Maes 22 13 4 DNF1 39
24 NorwayRasmus Windingstad 11 DNQ 15 7 33
25 Italy Giovanni Borsotti 12 DNF1 20 DNF1 32
26 Estonia Tormis Laine DNQ DNQ 18 11 29
27 France Alexis Pinturault DNS 15 3 8 26
28 Germany Fabian Gratz DNQ 12 12 DNF1 24
Germany Anton Grammel DNQ DNF1 DNQ 24 24
Germany Jonas Stockinger 6 7 11 DNQ 24
31 United States Tommy Ford 10 DNF1 13 DNF1 23
32 Sweden William Hansson 13 6 DNF1 3 22
33  Switzerland  Fadri Janutin DNF2 10 DNQ 6 16
34  Switzerland  Justin Murisier 14 DNQ DNS DNQ 14
35 Slovakia Andreas Žampa DNQ DNQ DNQ 13 13
36 Canada Erik Read DNQ DNQ DNQ 11 11
37 Germany Linus Straßer 9 DNS 9
Germany Stefan Luitz DNS 9 DNQ DNQ 9
39 Netherlands Marcel Hirscher 8 DNS 8
France Alban Elezi Cannaferina DNS 8 DNQ 8
41 Italy Hannes Zingerle DNQ DNQ 7 DNQ 7
42 France Victor Muffat-Jeandet 5 DNQ DNS 5
Austria Marco Schwarz DNS 5 5
44  Switzerland  Livio Simonet 4 DNQ DNF1 DNQ 4
France Diego Orecchioni DNQ DNq DNF1 4 4
46 France Cyprien Sarrazin 3 DNF2 DNS 3
47 Sweden Mattias Rönngren DNQ DNS DNQ 2 2
48 Austria Manuel Feller DNF1 DNS DNF2 DNQ 0
Italy Filippo Della Vite DNQ DNF2 DNQ DNF1 0
Austria Lukas Feurstein DNQ DNQ DNQ DNS 0
Denmark Christian Borgnæs DNQ DNQ DNQ DNS 0
 Switzerland  Sandro Zurbrügg DNQ DNF1 DNF1 DNS 0
Austria Noel Zwischenbrugger DNS DNQ DNQ 0
NorwayFredrik Møller DNQ DNF1 DNQ DNQ 0
Lithuania Andrej Drukarov DNF1 DNF1 DNQ DNQ 0
Japan Seigo Katō DNF1 DNF1 DNS DNF1 0
France Mathieu Faivre DNQ DNQ DNS 0
Austria Joshua Sturm DNS DNF1 DNQ 0
United States Patrick Kenney DNQ DNF2 DNF1 DNQ 0
Slovakia Andreas Žampa DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ 0
Australia Louis Muhlen-Schulte DNQ DNQ DNS DNQ 0
Spain Albert Ortega DNQ DNS DNQ DNS 0
Norway Halvor Hilde Gunleiksrud DNQ DNS 0
Austria Dominik Raschner DNS 0
Canada James Crawford DNS 0
United States George Steffey DNS 0
References [8] [9] [10] [11]

Legend

  •   Winner (100 points)
  •   2nd place (80 points)
  •   3rd place (60 points)
  • DNQ = Did not qualify for run 2
  • DNF1 = Did not finish run 1
  • DSQ1 = Disqualified run 1
  • DNF2 = Did not finish run 2
  • DSQ2 = Disqualified run 2
  • DNS2 = Did not start run 2
  •   Did not start (DNS)
  •   Not eligible for finals (NE)
  •   Race canceled (x)
  •   FIS non-World Cup race (World Championships)
  • Updated at 22 December 2024, after 4 of 9 events.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ "FIS CALENDAR & RESULTS – World Cup Men GS". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
  2. ^ "FIS ALPINE WORLD SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS SAALBACH 2025". Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  3. ^ a b ESPN (27 October 2024). "Alexander Steen Olsen leads Norwegian sweep in World Cup GS". MSN.com. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  4. ^ Zaccardi, Nick (8 December 2024). "Thomas Tumler earns first Alpine World Cup win; Lucas Braathen records Brazil's first podium". NBC Sports. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
  5. ^ Associated Press (14 December 2024). "Olympic ski champ Odermatt wins weather-affected GS, ties US racer Ligety for 24 career wins". Newsday. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
  6. ^ ESPN (22 December 2024). "Marco Odermatt wins GS, now most successful Swiss male skier". MSN.com. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  7. ^ "Sun Valley Resort Named Host of Audi FIS Ski World Cup Finals on FIS 2024-25 Alpine Calendar". 5 June 2024. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  8. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Sölden Men's GS (AUT)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  9. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Beaver Creek Men's GS (USA)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
  10. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Val d'Isère Men's GS (FRA)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
  11. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Alta Badia Men's GS (ITA)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  12. ^ "Men's Giant Slalom standing". FIS. Retrieved 22 December 2024.