73 races, 30 venues, 31 winners. The 2025/26 World Cup ran from the Sölden giant slalom on 25 October to the Hafjell slalom on 25 March: 37 women’s races and 36 men’s, across four disciplines, won by 31 different skiers from 12 nations. Everything below is counted from the podium database, not from standings.
The calendar
| GS | SL | DH | SG | Races | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women | 10 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 37 |
| Men | 9 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 36 |
| Total | 19 | 21 | 18 | 15 | 73 |
Two breaks stand out: 20 days between the Sölden openers and Levi, and 26 days between the Crans-Montana men’s downhill on 1 February and the Soldeu women’s downhill on 27 February, for the Olympics.
Margins
FIS publishes a winning margin for all 73 races this season. The median is 0.28 s, the mean 0.43 s.
| Margin | Race | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| 0.01 | Val di Fassa DH, 6 March | Laura Pirovano |
| 0.01 | Val di Fassa DH, 7 March | Laura Pirovano |
| 0.01 | Kranjska Gora SL, 8 March | Atle Lie McGrath |
| 0.03 | Kitzbühel SG, 23 January | Marco Odermatt |
| 0.04 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen DH, 28 February | Marco Odermatt |
| 0.07 | Gurgl SL, 22 November | Paco Rassat |
| 0.07 | Kitzbühel DH, 24 January | Giovanni Franzoni |
| 0.07 | Kvitfjell SG, 22 March | Dominik Paris |
Twelve of the 73 races were won by a tenth of a second or less. Six were won by a second or more — and all six were Mikaela Shiffrin slaloms: Špindlerův Mlýn (1.67), Levi (1.66), Copper Mountain (1.57), Courchevel (1.55), Lillehammer (1.32) and Gurgl (1.23). No other skier, in any discipline, won a race by more than a second all winter.
Nations
| Nation | Wins | Podium places |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 17 | 50 |
| Austria | 12 | 32 |
| Italy | 12 | 24 |
| United States | 11 | 29 |
| Norway | 6 | 24 |
| Brazil | 3 | 8 |
| France | 3 | 11 |
| New Zealand | 3 | 7 |
| Germany | 3 | 16 |
| Czechia | 1 | 2 |
| Sweden | 1 | 4 |
| Canada | 1 | 2 |
Sixteen nations took a podium place out of the 219 available. Only Belgium took exactly one; Croatia, Canada and Czechia took two each. Albania’s Lara Colturi took four podium places without a win, Finland’s Eduard Hallberg three.
First times
Eight skiers won a World Cup race for the first time and ten stood on a World Cup podium for the first time. For comparison, the archive counts 14 first-time winners in 2024/25, three in 2023/24 and four in 2022/23.
| Date | First-time winner | Nation | Race |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Oct | Julia Scheib | AUT | Sölden GS |
| 22 Nov | Paco Rassat | FRA | Gurgl SL |
| 28 Nov | Stefan Brennsteiner | AUT | Copper Mountain GS, aged 34 |
| 19 Dec | Jan Zabystran | CZE | Val Gardena SG, first ever by a Czech man |
| 16 Jan | Giovanni Franzoni | ITA | Wengen SG |
| 17 Jan | Nicol Delago | ITA | Tarvisio DH, aged 30 |
| 31 Jan | Malorie Blanc | SUI | Crans-Montana SG, aged 22 |
| 6 Mar | Laura Pirovano | ITA | Val di Fassa DH, and a first podium |
Armand Marchant’s second place in Gurgl on 22 November is the only Belgian entry in an archive of 11,764 podium rows going back to 1966/67.
Streaks and repeat winners
- 9 wins each: Marco Odermatt (14 podiums) and Mikaela Shiffrin (11 podiums). Nobody else won more than five.
- 5: Julia Scheib’s wins, all giant slaloms, from eight podiums.
- 3 in a row: Laura Pirovano’s downhills, the longest win streak of the season.
- 5 straight: Odermatt’s Adelboden giant slaloms, a first for the venue.
- 12 of the 31 winners won exactly once; only nine won three or more times.
Venues
Thirty venues in thirteen countries. Two were effectively new ground: Livigno held its first World Cup race, a men’s super-G on 27 December; and Copper Mountain hosted men’s World Cup races for the first time since March 1976, having held only women’s races in 1999 and 2001 in between. The finals themselves were not new ground: FIS files all eight of them under “Lillehammer”, which in the archive holds only three races before 2026, but the speed races ran at Kvitfjell and the technical races at Hafjell, venues with 74 and 12 earlier World Cup races between them, women’s races included.
All figures from the site’s Stats archive, a copy of the FIS alpine statistics database captured on 4 November 2026. The capture holds podiums, not points tables, so globe winners are listed rather than standings.