2025 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's overall
2025 Women's Overall World Cup
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The women's overall competition in the 2025 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup is scheduled to consist of 37 events in four disciplines: downhill (DH) (8 races), super-G (SG) (9 races), giant slalom (GS) (10 races), and slalom (SL) (10 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] Also, 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
[edit]The early season
[edit]The first race of the season, a giant slalom scheduled as usual on the Rettenbach glacier in Sölden, Austria in October, was won by 2020 overall champion Federica Brignone of Italy, who rallied from third place after the opening run with the seventh-fastest time in the second run to overtake both of the racers ahead of her.[4] With the victory, Brignone, who is 34, became the oldest woman ever to win a World Cup race.[4] Because this race was held so early in the fall, neither 2016 and 2024 overall champion Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland nor 2021 overall champion Petra Vlhová of Slovakia had recovered from prior surgeries sufficiently to be able to compete, although Gut-Behrami entered the race but did not start. Three weeks later, picking up where she left off, five-time (2017-19, 2022-23) overall champion Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States won the slalom in Levi, Finland, giving her the season lead and an all-time record 98 total victories in World Cup skiing.[5] After the race, Shiffrin stated that “from this weekend, I am racing every single weekend until world championships, for sure. So it’s going be a really big push now.”[5] Shiffrin then won her 99th career victory in another slalom the following week in Gurgl, Austria.[6]
In the very next race, at Shiffrin's "home" course in Killington (Vermont), USA, Shiffrin made her first try for her 100th World Cup victory. As in the prior giant slalom in Sölden, she held the lead going into the second run. However, while still in the lead shortly after the midpoint of the course, she suffered a hard crash into the fencing, which resulted in her being stretchered off the course; the crash handed the win to Sara Hector of Sweden.[7] Shiffrin's injury was eventually diagnosed as an abdominal puncture wound (which could not be stitched up due to the possibility of infection) combined with "severe muscle trauma", and she was anticipated to miss at least the next two weeks.[8]
In the first race without Shiffrin, Camille Rast of Switzerland, who had posted her first two World Cup podiums ever by placing third in the prior two races, rallied from third after the second leg to post her first World Cup victory and take the lead in the overall standing for the season.[9]
Finals
[edit]The finals in all disciplines will be held from 22-27 March 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho, USA.[10] 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
[edit]- Leader
- 2nd place
- 3rd place
- Updated on 1 December 2024, after 5 of 37 events (with two reschedulings pending).[1]
See also
[edit]- 2025 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's summary rankings
- 2025 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's downhill
- 2025 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's super-G
- 2025 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's giant slalom
- 2025 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's slalom
- 2025 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's overall
- World Cup scoring system
References
[edit]- ^ a b "CUP STANDINGS WORLD CUP Season 2025 Women Overall". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
- ^ "Audi FIS Ski Women's World Cup 2024/25 Schedule" (PDF). 20 September 2024. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
- ^ "FIS ALPINE WORLD SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS SAALBACH 2025". Retrieved 5 November 2024.
- ^ a b "Federica Brignone overtakes Mikaela Shiffrin, is oldest woman to win Alpine skiing World Cup". MBC Sports. 26 October 2025. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
- ^ a b Associated Press (16 November 2024). "US skier Mikaela Shiffrin wins 1st World Cup slalom of season for her 98th career victory". AP News. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
- ^ Field Level Media (23 November 2024). "USA's Mikaela Shiffrin gets 99th career victory with World Cup slalom win". USA Today. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
- ^ AFP (30 November 2024). "Shiffrin crashes out of Killington giant slalom won by Hector". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- ^ Taranto, Steven (1 December 2024). "Mikaela Shiffrin suffers puncture wound, 'severe muscle trauma' after crash in pursuit of 100th win". CBS Sports. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
- ^ Zaccardi, Nick (1 December 2024). "Camille Rast wins Stifel Killington Cup slalom for first World Cup victory". NBC Sports. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
- ^ "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.