Albert Popov / 2025 Madonna di Campiglio Winner / GEPA footage
The boys’s World Cup slalom season arrives in Madonna di Campiglio on Wednesday evening with momentum, uncertainty, and strain all converging at one of many sport’s most iconic venues. With 5 slaloms remaining earlier than the Olympic break, January will form Olympic qualification, Olympic seeding, and far of the World Cup Finals area in Norway.
4 races into the season, males’s slalom has delivered precisely what followers anticipate — unpredictability. 4 completely different winners from three international locations, six nations on the rostrum, and no dominant power. The season chief owns only one podium, whereas solely three skiers have reached the rostrum twice. Each race has produced shock performers, and Madonna di Campiglio’s difficult, injected evening floor hardly ever calms the chaos.
Males’s World Cup Slalom Podium Desk — 2025–26 Season
Season standings: Males’s slalom high 5
Consistency has been rewarded, however not dominance. The highest 5 stay tightly filled with a number of contenders nonetheless trying to find their first clear evening race.
🇳🇴 Timon Haugan (1996) — 245 factors
🇫🇷 Clément Noël (1997) — 182 factors
🇫🇷 Paco Rassat (1998) — 180 factors · HEAD
🇧🇷 Lucas Pinheiro Braathen (2000) — 171 factors · Atomic · Oakley
🇳🇴 Atle Lie McGrath (2000) — 160 factors · HEAD
Alta Badia bolstered the depth, not separation. With 5 January races nonetheless to come back, nothing is locked in.
Elite first seed: High 7 WCSL starters
The primary begin group brings collectively the season’s most constant performers, however even this group has been something however predictable.
Bib 1 · 🇳🇴 Timon Haugan (1996) — 245 factors
Bib 2 · 🇮🇹 Fabio Gstrein (1997) — 0 factors
Bib 3 · 🇧🇷 Lucas Pinheiro Braathen (2000) — 171 factors · Atomic · Oakley
Bib 4 · 🇳🇴 Atle Lie McGrath (2000) — 160 factors · HEAD
Bib 5 · 🇳🇴 Henrik Kristoffersen (1994) — 0 factors
Bib 6 · 🇫🇷 Clément Noël (1997) — 182 factors
Bib 7 · 🇨🇭 Loïc Meillard (1996) — 158 factors
Kristoffersen enters with no podium this season, whereas Haugan leads the self-discipline regardless of proudly owning only one podium end — an ideal snapshot of how tight the margins have been.
Stifel U.S. Ski Group: January alternative arrives
After a robust 2025 season that included Benjamin Ritchie qualifying for the World Cup Finals and Jett Seymour delivering a career-best factors whole, the U.S. males’s slalom group has opened this season slowly.
Solely seven World Cup slalom factors have been scored to this point — by two athletes — however January supplies sufficient begins to reset the narrative.
Bib 26 · 🇺🇸 Benjamin Ritchie (2000) — 0 factors
Bib 44 · 🇺🇸 Jett Seymour (2003) — 2 factors · Atomic
Bib 47 · 🇺🇸 Luke Winters (1997) — 0 factors
The upside stays clear. Ritchie has but to complete a race this season, however few skiers within the area possess a better ceiling when situations align.
Canada: Veteran presence below strain
Canada’s slalom illustration rests with a confirmed veteran.
Bib 62 · 🇨🇦 Erik Learn (1991) — 0 slalom factors · Atomic
Learn has scored World Cup factors in every of the final 11 seasons, although he has but to take action in slalom this winter. He has already scored in large slalom this season, and Madonna di Campiglio presents a well-known stage to increase that long-running slalom streak.
Nice Britain: The deepest non-traditional slalom crew
Nice Britain continues to area the strongest slalom group outdoors the normal powers, with depth throughout the beginning record and a number of second-run threats.
Bib 25 · 🇬🇧 Laurie Taylor (1996) — 85 factors · HEAD
Bib 8 · 🇬🇧 Dave Ryding (1986) — 58 factors · HEAD
Bib 30 · 🇬🇧 Billy Main (1994) — 25 factors · HEAD
Bib 61 · 🇬🇧 Luca Carrick-Smith (2005) — 0 factors
Taylor stays firmly within the second-run combine, whereas Ryding’s expertise on injected evening surfaces continues to make him a menace no matter bib.
Why Madonna di Campiglio issues
Madonna di Campiglio is greater than an evening race. It’s a January checkpoint in an Olympic season, the place athletes both stabilize their campaigns or start chasing factors below strain. With Olympic qualification, seeding, and World Cup Finals positions all on the road, this race represents an early verdict — not on champions, however on who nonetheless controls their season.
Course setters — First run: Thomas Maitre (FRA) Second run: Robert Füss (AUT)
Males’s GS Race
The boys’s slalom is ready for Sunday, Dec. 14. Run one begins at 12:00 p.m. ET / 9:00 a.m. PT, adopted by run two at 3:00 p.m. ET / 12:00 p.m. PT. Followers in Nice Britain can tune in at 17:00 for the primary run and 20:00 for the second.
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First Run Starlist Males’s GS
