Ryan Cochran-Siegle Challenger downhill coaching run: Burnhamphoto
A New Stage for the Stifel Solar Valley World Cup Finals
The Stifel Solar Valley World Cup Finals will convey the world’s greatest alpine skiers to Idaho for a high-stakes finale, that includes downhill, super-G, big slalom, and slalom. Nevertheless it all begins with velocity. On Saturday, March 22, the boys’s and girls’s downhill races will take heart stage on Challenger, a newly constructed course that has by no means been raced on earlier than.
This marks the primary time Solar Valley hosts World Cup velocity occasions, and the primary World Cup races of any sort on the resort since 1977. The Challenger downhill is ready to ship an unpredictable, high-adrenaline debut, forcing racers to navigate an untested monitor at blistering speeds.
A brand new problem awaits, and historical past is about to be made.
Contained in the Solar Valley Challenger Downhill Course
The Challenger Downhill at Solar Valley is constructed for aggression, braveness, and whole dedication. Stretching 2,278 meters (7,474 ft) with a vertical drop of 834 meters (2,736 ft), it begins at 2,681 meters (8,800 ft) and plunges to the Greyhawk end space at 1,847 meters (6,060 ft).
This all-new monitor calls for fearless snowboarding from the beginning. Racers launch off the Sawtooth Bounce earlier than charging into Durrance Dive, a nod to the person who first envisioned a downhill on Bald Mountain. The course will get steeper by means of The Legends, testing skiers’ uncooked braveness earlier than they hammer by means of Carol’s Wagon Wheel and the Steilhang Traverse. Subsequent comes the Frontier Bounce, a daring flight into the technical Sluice and Rudi’s Roll, the place the road should be balanced with a full-speed assault. Because the end nears, skiers drop into Cowboy’s Nook, named for the Challenger course’s designer and builder, Tom Johnston, earlier than blasting by means of Proctor Park and throughout the Greyhawk end space.
With no historical past, benchmarks, or room for hesitation, Challenger will demand full-throttle snowboarding and the need to push to the boundaries.
Males’s and Girls’s Downhill – Saturday, March 22
Males’s Downhill Finals
Males’s Downhill: 1 p.m. ET | 10 a.m. PT
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Switzerland’s Alexis Monney set the tempo in the one coaching run, clocking a blistering 1:24.29 on the Challenger course. He hit 73 mph within the first velocity entice, proving that the brand new downhill calls for pure velocity and whole dedication from the beginning.
Twenty-five males from 10 nations are competing within the downhill on the Stifel Solar Valley World Cup Finals, together with Germany’s Felix Roesle, the reigning Junior World Champion, and Switzerland’s Loïc Meillard, who’s eligible to race as a result of he has greater than 500 World Cup factors. Meillard has 931 factors this season and sits third within the general standings.
2025 Males’s Downhill Title Contenders in Solar Valley
If Marco Odermatt finishes 14th or higher, the downhill title is his. However Franjo Von Allmen has just one shot—he should win, and Odermatt should place fifteenth or worse. Realizing nothing lower than victory will do, Von Allmen will cost down the brand-new Challenger course with full depth. The query is, will Odermatt go all out for the win, or will he take a barely extra conservative strategy to safe his second consecutive four-globe season? With the title hanging within the steadiness, the Solar Valley downhill guarantees high-speed drama and no room for second-guessing.
2025 Males’s World Cup downhill podiums
Eight downhill races occurred in the course of the common season.
2025 North American Downhill Podiums
North American skiers have made their mark on the 2025 World Cup downhill season, securing podium finishes at a few of the sport’s most legendary venues.
James “Jack” Crawford (CAN) – 1st place, Kitzbühel Downhill
Cameron Alexander (CAN) – third place, Bormio & Kitzbühel Downhills
Ryan Cochran-Siegle (USA) – third place, Val Gardena / Gröden Downhill
From Crawford’s historic victory on the scary Streif to Alexander and Cochran-Siegle’s podium runs on a few of the tour’s most demanding tracks, North America’s downhill stars have confirmed their velocity on the world stage.
North American Skiers Certified for the Solar Valley Males’s Downhill
Cameron Alexander of Alpine Canada Alpin will miss the World Cup Finals as a result of sustaining an damage throughout World Championships downhill coaching.
North American Males Racing the Downhill within the Stifel Solar Valley World Cup Finals
Bib 12, James Crawford, ACA, Whistler Mountain Ski Membership, HEAD
Bib 17, Ryan Cochran-Siegle, Stifel USST, Mt Mansfield Ski Academy, Cochran’s Ski Membership, HEAD
Bib 18, Bryce Bennett, Stifel USST, Workforce Palisades Tahoe
Bib 21, Brodie Seger, ACA, Whistler Mountain Ski Membership, Atomic
Girls’s 2025 World Cup Downhill Finals
Girls’s Downhill: 2:30 p.m. ET | 11:30 a.m. PT
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Switzerland’s Lara Intestine-Behrami led the way in which for the ladies in the one coaching run, posting a fast 1:27.79 on the Challenger course and hitting 71 mph within the second velocity entice—an early reminder that this downhill calls for fearless snowboarding from the very high.
Twenty-four girls from 9 nations are competing within the downhill on the Stifel Solar Valley World Cup Finals, together with New Zealand’s Alice Robinson, who has 668 factors in the course of the 2025 season and certified to race World Cup downhills.
2025 Girls’s Downhill Title Contenders in Solar Valley
The race for the ladies’s downhill title is extensive open, with simply 34 factors separating the highest three contenders—that means a seventh-place end (value 36 factors) by Goggia, mixed with bother for the highest two, may utterly shake up the standings.
Six downhill races occurred in the course of the common season.
2025 Girls’s Downhill Podiums
North American Podiums
Breezy Johnson (USA) – Gold Medal, Saalbach World Championships Downhill; third place, Kvitfjell Downhill #1
Lauren Macuga (USA) – 2nd place, Kvitfjell Downhill #2
North American Skiers Certified for Solar Valley Girls’s Downhill
North American Girls Racing the Stifel Solar Valley World Cup Finals Downhill
Bib 11, Breezy Johnson, Stifel USST, Rowmark Ski Academy, Atomic
Bib 13, Lauren Macuga, Stifel USST, Park Metropolis Ski Workforce, Winter Sports activities College
Bib 16, Jacqueline Wiles, Stifel USST, White Go Ski Membership
Bib 19, Lindsey Vonn, Stifel USST, Ski and Snowboard Membership Vail, HEAD, Oakley
Scoring Format on the World Cup Finals
The World Cup Finals characteristic a diminished subject. Solely the highest 25 athletes from the season standings qualify for every occasion, together with skiers who’ve earned 500 World Cup factors and meet FIS eligibility standards. In contrast to regular-season races, the place the highest 30 finishers earn World Cup factors, solely the highest 15 obtain factors on the Finals.
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