14–15 November, Levi Black. The slalom season starts in Finnish Lapland. The women race on Saturday, the men on Sunday. Ten days ago the giant slalom opener in Sölden produced two very different results: a first win at 32 for Paula Moltzan, and a fourth straight GS win for Lucas Pinheiro Braathen. The nine-time Levi winner is not starting.
Women: last year
Mikaela Shiffrin won the 2025 Levi slalom by 1.66 seconds. She led by almost 1.5 after the first run. It was her ninth win in Levi, and her 65th World Cup slalom win.
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mikaela ShiffrinUSA | USA | — |
| 2 | Lara ColturiALB | ALB | +1.66 |
| 3 | Emma AicherGER | GER | n/a |
| 4 | Paula MoltzanUSA | USA | n/a |
Aicher’s third place was her first World Cup slalom podium. Moltzan came from 19th after the first run to fourth.
Women: title holders
- Slalom globe: Shiffrin, her ninth, the most by any skier in one discipline. She won 9 of 10 slaloms last season and scored 980 of a possible 1,000 points.
- Olympic slalom champion: Shiffrin (Milano Cortina). Camille Rast won silver and Anna Swenn Larsson bronze.
- Rast was second in the slalom standings.
- Shiffrin’s career totals: 110 World Cup wins, 73 of them in slalom.
Women: no Shiffrin
Shiffrin is not in Levi. On 23 October she said she would skip the first two slaloms of the winter, Levi and Gurgl, and race her first slalom at Killington on 28–29 November. She calls this an “exploration season”, with fewer slalom starts and more giant slalom and super-G, and said she accepts she may never win the overall again. In Sölden she led the first run and finished seventh, 0.83 back, after the 27th-fastest second run.
Without her, the race is open. Colturi was second in Sölden by 0.01 and Aicher third; both were on the Levi podium a year ago. Rast was second in last season’s slalom standings and Olympic silver medallist. Moltzan arrives as the Sölden winner. Petra Vlhová, slalom globe winner in 2020 and 2022, finished 23rd in Sölden in her first race since January 2024.
Men: last year
Pinheiro Braathen won by 0.31 from Clément Noël. It was Brazil’s first World Cup win. He led by 0.41 after the first run. Eduard Hallberg was third, the first Finnish man on a home World Cup podium.
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time / Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lucas Pinheiro BraathenBRA | BRA | 1:50.72 |
| 2 | Clément NoëlFRA | FRA | +0.31 |
| 3 | Eduard HallbergFIN | FIN | +0.57 |
| 4 | Laurie TaylorGBR | GBR | +0.61 |
| 5 | Timon HauganNOR | NOR | +0.77 |
Men: title holders
- Slalom globe: Atle Lie McGrath, his first. He led Pinheiro Braathen by 41 points before the final slalom in Hafjell, where Pinheiro Braathen skied out. Haugan won that race.
- Olympic slalom champion: Loïc Meillard. Fabio Gstrein won silver and Henrik Kristoffersen bronze.
- Last season’s men’s slalom had seven different winners in 11 races.
In Sölden, Pinheiro Braathen won and Meillard was second. McGrath skied out in the second run. Marco Schwarz has dropped slalom and will race only giant slalom and the speed events.
Numbers
- 9: Shiffrin’s Levi wins. She is not starting this year.
- 1.66: her winning margin there last year.
- 28 November: her first slalom of the season, at Killington.
- 0.41: Pinheiro Braathen’s first-run lead in Levi last year. He then won by 0.31.
- 7: different men’s slalom winners last season.
Next after Levi: Gurgl slalom, 21–22 November.
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