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2025 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's overall

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2025 Men's Overall World Cup
  • Marco Odermatt of Switzerland, three-time defending champion and current leader
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The men's overall in the 2025 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup is scheduled to consist of 38 events in four disciplines: downhill (DH) (9 races), super-G (SG) (8 races), giant slalom (GS) (9 races), and slalom (SL) (12 races).[1] After cancellations in both of the prior two seasons, the two downhills scheduled on the Matterhorn in mid-November were removed from the schedule.[2] Thus, for the third straight season, only the four major disciplines will be contested on the World Cup circuit.

As is the case every other year, the Alpine Skiing World Championships will place, this time in Saalbach, Austria during 4–16 February 2025.[3]

Season Summary

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Although Marco Odermatt of Switzerland had won the last three overall titles, his path to a fourth straight title would need to get past two new obstacles returning from their retirements, both of whom are sponsored by Red Bull, which is headquartered in Austria. First, Lucas Braathen of Norway, who won the 2023 slalom discipline title (and finished fourth overall that season) before retiring over a dispute with the national team over his individual commercial rights changed his sponsoring nation to Brazil, his mother's home nation, with the approval of Norway and added his Portuguese middle name (Pinheiro) to his FIS registration.[4] Second, Marcel Hirscher of Austria, who retired from Alpine skiing in 2019 after winning eight consecutive men's overall titles, decided to return after five years away from the sport . . . but, like Braathen, for his mother's home nation: the Netherlands (again, with the approval of Austria).[5] However, Hirscher suffered a season-ending tear of a cruciate ligament in December during training and expressed some doubt about whether he'd return for the 2026 season,[6]

Early season

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By placing second in each of the first two technical events (a giant slalom in Sölden and a slalom in Levi), two-time overall runner-up Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway jumped into the overall lead at the start of the season, ahead of his countryman Alexander Steen Olsen, who was leading after winning the giant slalom.[7] In the third technical event, another slalom, Kristoffersen only finished sixth, allowing 2022 Olympic slalom gold medalist Clément Noël, who won both of the first two slaloms of the season, to tie Kristoffersen for the overall lead through three races.[8]

After a week off, the men moved to Beaver Creek, Colorado (United States) for three races (DH, SG, GS). Defending overall champion Marco Odermatt of Switzerland was favored in each of the three races, and he won the super-G for his 38th World Cup victory,[9] but he was unset by his teammate Justin Murisier in downhill.[10] In the giant slalom, Kristoffersen's fifth-place finish (worth 45 points) was sufficient to put him in solo first pace, with Thomas Tumler of Switzerland collecting his first World Cup win and Odermatt once again failing to complete both runs.[11] Odermatt finally won a giant slalom this season when the World Cup circuit returned to Europe at Val d'Isère, France; however, Kristoffersen narrowly retained the overall lead over Odermatt.[12] Then, after an almost two-year victory drought, Kristoffersen won the slalom in Val d'Isére to stretch his lead to over 100 points, with his Norwegian teammate Atle Lie McGrath edging out Odermatt for second place.[13]

The last four races before Christmas took place in Italy (Val Gardena for speed and Alta Badia for technical), and Odermatt's victories in both downhill and giant slalom, plus a third in super-G, returned him to the top of the leaderboard before Christmas, as well as establishing him as the male Swiss skier with the most World Cup victories (41, one more than Pirmin Zurbriggen).[14]

Mid-season

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Although Odermatt has consistently held the lead in the overall standings since seizing it, he was not able to establish his usual dominance over his rivals, particularly Kristoffersen. At Bormio (Italy) in the week between Christmas and New Years, the downhill and super-G were both won by first-time World Cup winners: Alexis Monney of Switzerland[15] and Fredrik Møller of Norway,[16] respectively, and the first race after New Years, a slalom in Madonna di Campiglio (Italy) was won by another first-time winner, Albert Popov of Bulgaria, recording his country's second-ever World Cup win and first in exactly 45 years.[17] At Adelboden, a slalom victory by Noël (his third of the season) and a podium finish by Kristoffersen brought Kristoffersen back to within 56 points of Odermatt,[18] but a come-from-behind win by Odermatt in the next day's giant slalom (his third consecutive in the discipline), followed immediately by Kristoffersen failing to finish the second run, restored Odermatt's substantial lead.[19]

Finals

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The finals in all disciplines will be held from 22 to 27 March 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho, United States.[20] Only the top 25 skiers in each World Cup 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 finishers earn World Cup points.

Standings

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# Skier DH
4 races
SG
4 races
GS
5 races
SL
7 races
Total
1  Switzerland  Marco Odermatt 325 241 300 0 866
2 NorwayHenrik Kristoffersen 0 0 199 435 634
3  Switzerland  Loïc Meillard 0 13 144 370 527
4 NorwayAtle Lie McGrath 0 0 160 322 482
5 NorwayTimon Haugan 0 0 134 279 413
6 Brazil Lucas Pinheiro Braathen 0 0 139 253 392
7  Switzerland  Franjo von Allmen 243 148 0 0 391
8 France Clément Noël 0 0 0 364 364
9 Austria Vincent Kriechmayr 77 222 0 0 299
10 Italy Mattia Casse 93 179 0 0 272
11 NorwayAlexander Steen Olsen 0 0 189 79 268
12  Switzerland  Justin Murisier 178 64 14 0 256
13 Croatia Filip Zubčić 0 0 161 90 251
14  Switzerland  Stefan Rogentin 90 160 0 0 250
15  Switzerland  Alexis Monney 120 113 0 0 233
Canada Cameron Alexander 134 99 0 0 233
17 NorwayFredrik Møller 11 220 0 0 231
18 France Nils Allègre 121 79 0 0 200
19 Croatia Samuel Kolega 0 0 0 197 197
20 France Steven Amiez 0 0 0 194 194
21 Bulgaria Albert Popov 0 0 0 193 193
22 Slovenia Miha Hrobat 172 15 0 0 187
23 Slovenia Žan Kranjec 0 0 186 0 186
24 Italy Luca De Aliprandini 0 0 178 0 178
25  Switzerland  Thomas Tumler 0 0 174 0 174
United States Ryan Cochran-Siegle 106 68 0 0 174
27 Italy Dominik Paris 68 102 0 0 170
28  Switzerland  Daniel Yule 0 0 0 167 167
29 Canada James Crawford 93 70 0 0 163
30  Switzerland  Tanguy Nef 0 0 0 161 161
31 Germany Linus Straßer 0 0 9 146 155
32 United States River Radamus 0 34 116 4 154
33 United Kingdom Dave Ryding 0 0 0 146 146
34  Switzerland  Luca Aerni 0 0 100 45 145
35 Italy Alex Vinatzer 0 0 98 43 141
36 Austria Patrick Feurstein 0 0 134 0 134
Austria Manuel Feller 0 0 16 118 134
38 Austria Fabio Gstrein 0 0 0 131 131
39 France Cyprien Sarrazin 43 80 3 0 126
40  Switzerland  Gino Caviezel 0 36 89 0 125
41 Sweden Kristoffer Jakobsen 0 0 0 124 124
42 United States Bryce Bennett 112 4 0 0 116
43 Austria Daniel Hemetsberger 56 57 0 0 113
44 France Léo Anguenot 0 0 111 0 111
45 Austria Stefan Brennsteiner 0 0 104 0 104
46 Austria Lukas Feurstein 0 89 14 0 103
47 Austria Stefan Babinsky 40 60 0 0 100
48  Switzerland  Lars Rösti 67 32 0 0 99
49 United States Jared Goldberg 15 82 0 0 97
50 France Thibaut Favrot 0 0 95 0 95
Italy Giovanni Franzoni 16 79 0 0 95
52 France Blaise Giezendanner 39 50 0 0 89
53 France Paco Rassat 0 0 0 87 87
54 United States Benjamin Ritchie 0 0 0 85 85
Czech Republic Jan Zabystřan 38 47 0 0 85
56 AndorraJoan Verdú 0 0 84 0 84
57 Austria Stefan Eichberger 51 30 0 0 81
58 Austria Michael Matt 0 0 0 78 78
59 Austria Marco Schwarz 0 0 34 42 76
Belgium Armand Marchant 0 0 0 76 76
61 France Alexis Pinturault 0 26 48 0 74
62 Austria Dominik Raschner 0 0 0 72 72
63 Austria Johannes Strolz 0 0 0 70 70
Canada Brodie Seger 55 15 0 0 70
65 Austria Adrian Pertl 0 0 0 69 69
66 Belgium Sam Maes 0 0 52 16 68
67 NorwayAdrian Smiseth Sejersted 18 42 0 0 60
68 Austria Otmar Striedinger 31 25 0 0 56
69 France Victor Muffat-Jeandet 0 0 5 50 55
Estonia Tormis Laine 0 0 35 20 55
71  Switzerland  Marco Kohler 45 9 0 0 54
72 Austria Raphael Haaser 6 0 47 0 53
Germany Romed Baumann 36 17 0 0 53
Germany Alexander Schmid 0 0 53 0 53
75 Slovenia Martin Čater 50 2 0 0 52
Italy Tobias Kastlunger 0 0 0 52 52
77 France Florian Loriot 0 49 0 0 49
78 United States Jett Seymour 0 0 0 44 44
France Matthieu Bailet 21 23 0 0 44
80 Germany Luis Vogt 28 15 0 0 43
81 Sweden Fabian Ax Swartz 0 0 0 41 41
82 Italy Stefano Gross 0 0 0 40 40
83 Finland Eduard Hallberg 0 0 0 39 39
Germany Anton Grammel 0 0 39 0 39
85 Germany Jonas Stockinger 0 0 37 0 37
Finland Elian Lehto 27 10 0 0 37
87 NorwayRasmus Windingstad 0 1 33 0 34
Italy Florian Schieder 34 0 0 0 34
89 France Maxence Muzaton 33 0 0 0 33
France Adrien Théaux 18 15 0 0 33
91 Italy Giovanni Borsotti 0 0 32 0 32
 Switzerland  Marc Rochat 0 0 0 32 32
93 Germany Fabian Gratz 0 0 31 0 31
94 United Kingdom Laurie Taylor 0 0 0 30 30
United States Sam Morse 26 4 0 0 30
96 Austria Daniel Danklmaier 0 29 0 0 29
Italy Christof Innerhofer 17 12 0 0 29
98 Austria Felix Hacker 10 18 0 0 28
99 France Nils Alphand 20 6 0 0 26
100 Italy Pietro Zazzi 0 24 0 0 24
Italy Filippo Della Vite 0 0 24 0 24
Austria Joshua Sturm 0 0 0 24 24
103 United States Tommy Ford 0 0 23 0 23
104 Germany Simon Jocher 22 0 0 0 22
Sweden William Hansson 0 0 22 0 22
United States Kyle Negomir 0 22 0 0 22
107 Canada Jeffrey Read 0 21 0 0 21
108 Italy Nicolo Molteni 0 18 0 0 18
Croatia Istok Rodeš 0 0 0 18 18
110 Austria Stefan Rieser 17 0 0 0 17
Sweden Felix Monsen 11 6 0 0 17
112 Spain Joaquim Salarich 0 0 0 16 16
 Switzerland  Fadri Janutin 0 0 16 0 16
114 Austria Vincent Wieser 7 8 0 0 15
115  Switzerland  Livio Hiltbrand 14 0 0 0 14
116 Slovakia Andreas Žampa 0 0 13 0 13
117 NorwaySebastian Foss-Solevåg 0 0 0 12 12
Greece AJ Ginnis 0 0 0 12 12
 Switzerland  Ramon Zenhäusern 0 0 0 12 12
Sweden Gustav Wissting 0 0 0 12 12
121 Canada Erik Read 0 0 11 0 11
122 Italy Simon Maurberger 0 0 0 10 10
United Kingdom Billy Major 0 0 0 10 10
124 Germany Stefan Luitz 0 0 9 0 9
Germany Anton Tremmel 0 0 0 9 9
Austria Noel Zwischenbrugger 0 0 9 0 9
127 United States Erik Arvidsson 8 0 0 0 8
France Alban Elezi Cannaferina 0 0 8 0 8
Chile Henrik von Appen 8 0 0 0 8
Netherlands Marcel Hirscher 0 0 8 0 8
NorwayEirik Hystad Solberg 0 0 0 8 8
United States Patrick Kenney 0 0 8 0 8
133 Italy Hannes Zingerle 0 0 7 0 7
 Switzerland  Josua Mettler 7 0 0 0 7
135 Austria Manuel Tranninger 5 0 0 0 5
136  Switzerland  Livio Simonet 0 0 4 0 4
Liechtenstein Marco Pfiffner 4 0 0 0 4
France Diego Orecchioni 0 0 4 0 4
139 Italy Benjamin Jacques Alliod 3 0 0 0 3
 Switzerland  Arnaud Boisset 0 3 0 0 3
141 Sweden Mattias Rönngren 0 0 2 0 2
142 Italy Guglielmo Bosca 0 0 0 0 0
 Switzerland  Niels Hintermann 0 0 0 0 0
Italy Tommaso Sala 0 0 0 0 0
Germany Sebastian Holzmann 0 0 0 0 0
Germany Andreas Sander 0 0 0 0 0
United States Wiley Maple 0 0 0 0 0
Spain Juan del Campo 0 0 0 0 0
DenmarkChristian Borgnæs 0 0 0 0 0
Austria Christoph Krenn 0 0 0 0 0
Austria Christopher Neumayer 0 0 0 0 0
 Switzerland  Gilles Roulin 0 0 0 0 0
Germany Josef Ferstl 0 0 0 0 0
 Switzerland  Sandro Zurbrügg 0 0 0 0 0
Germany Thomas Dreßen 0 0 0 0 0
Germany Dominik Schwaiger 0 0 0 0 0
Japan Seigo Kato 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuania Andrej Drukarov 0 0 0 0 0
France Mathieu Faivre 0 0 0 0 0
Austria Kilian Pramstaller 0 0 0 0 0
France Hugo Desgrippes 0 0 0 0 0
Austria Andreas Ploier 0 0 0 0 0
Norway Halvor Hilde Gunleiksrud 0 0 0 0 0
NorwayTheodor Brækken 0 0 0 0 0
Canada Riley Seger 0 0 0 0 0
Australia Louis Muhlen-Schulte 0 0 0 0 0
Spain Albert Ortega 0 0 0 0 0
Austria Simon Rüland 0 0 0 0 0
France Sam Alphand 0 0 0 0 0
United States George Steffey 0 0 0 0 0
France Adrien Fresquet 0 0 0 0 0
Canada Kyle Alexander 0 0 0 0 0
  •   Leader
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  •   does not compete in this discipline
  • Updated on 19 January 2025, after 20 of 38 events.[21]

See also

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References

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