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A discipline of 55 skiers representing 15 nations will tackle the La VolatA downhill course in Val di Fassa, Italy, because the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup returns to the Dolomites for a two-race downhill weekend.
This text consists of how and when to look at, the downloadable official begin listing, the day by day program, and full discipline evaluation for the seventh girls’s downhill of the 2025–26 World Cup season.
Friday’s race serves because the make-up downhill for the weather-canceled race in Crans-Montana, whereas Saturday will host the initially scheduled Val di Fassa downhill. With two races in two days, the self-discipline standings might shift dramatically earlier than the tour strikes on.
Three downhills stay within the season, which means 300 World Cup factors are nonetheless obtainable within the race for the downhill globe.
Girls’s World Cup Downhill — Podium Desk (2025–26)
The season has produced six completely different downhill winners throughout seven races, an indication of how aggressive the self-discipline has been all through the winter.
Lindsey Vonn received two of the early-season races and managed the standings earlier than the Olympic break. Since then, the momentum has shifted. Emma Aicher has emerged as one of many quickest skiers on this planet, Breezy Johnson captured Olympic gold in Cortina, and Corinne Suter added her identify to the winners’ listing with victory in Soldeu.
With so many alternative winners and a number of podium contenders in each race, the downhill discipline stays huge open heading into Val di Fassa.
Downhill Globe Race — High Six Season Standings
Earlier than the Olympics, Lindsey Vonn was the overwhelming favourite to say the downhill globe. She led the standings and managed the self-discipline.
Now she is out of competition.
That shift has utterly modified the race.
Emma Aicher, the 22-year-old four-event skier from Germany, abruptly holds her future in her personal fingers. She carries a 50-point lead into Val di Fassa and, simply as importantly, momentum. With three downhills remaining, the trail to the self-discipline title runs straight via her.
However the battle is way from determined.
Kira Weidle-Winkelmann stays inside hanging distance, and a decent chasing pack sits proper behind her. Sofia Goggia, Laura Pirovano and Breezy Johnson all stay shut sufficient to grab management of the globe race with a robust weekend.
With so many factors nonetheless in play, any of the highest energetic girls nonetheless has a authentic shot. Get scorching, execute on the restrict, and the downhill globe can change fingers shortly.
High Six World Cup Downhill Standings
🇺🇸 Lindsey Vonn (USA, 1984, Oakley, Head) — 400 pts
🇩🇪 Emma Aicher (GER, 2003, Head) — −94
🇩🇪 Kira Weidle-Winkelmann (GER, 1996) — −144
🇮🇹 Sofia Goggia (ITA, 1992, Atomic) — −160
🇮🇹 Laura Pirovano (ITA, 1997, Head) — −164
🇺🇸 Breezy Johnson (USA, 1996, Atomic) — −177
High Seven WCSL Downhill — Begin Listing Order
The World Cup Begin Listing (WCSL) rating determines bib order. Olympic and World Championship outcomes award start-list factors however don’t award World Cup self-discipline factors, which is why the beginning order doesn’t completely mirror the season standings.
For Friday’s downhill, the strongest contenders will begin early within the race.
• Bib 6 — 🇮🇹 Nicol Delago (ITA, 1996, Atomic) — WCSL DH Rank 7
• Bib 7 — 🇩🇪 Kira Weidle-Winkelmann (GER, 1996) — WCSL DH Rank 3
• Bib 8 — 🇮🇹 Laura Pirovano (ITA, 1997, Head) — WCSL DH Rank 6
• Bib 10 — 🇦🇹 Cornelia Hütter (AUT, 1992, Head) — WCSL DH Rank 4
• Bib 11 — 🇩🇪 Emma Aicher (GER, 2003, Head) — WCSL DH Rank 1
• Bib 15 — 🇮🇹 Sofia Goggia (ITA, 1992, Atomic) — WCSL DH Rank 5
• Bib 19 — 🇨🇭 Corinne Suter (SUI, 1994, Stöckli) — WCSL DH Rank 2
🇺🇸 Stifel U.S. Ski Group — Girls’s World Cup Downhill (La VolatA)
The Stifel U.S. Ski Group enters eight racers for Friday’s downhill. Breezy Johnson leads the American contingent because the top-ranked U.S. skier within the self-discipline standings.
• Bib 9 — 🇺🇸 Breezy Johnson (USA, 1996, Atomic) — sixth in DH — 223 pts — Stifel U.S. Ski Group / Rowmark Ski Academy
• Bib 14 — 🇺🇸 Jacqueline Wiles (USA, 1992) — thirteenth in DH — 152 pts — Stifel U.S. Ski Group
• Bib 22 — 🇺🇸 Allison Mollin (USA, 2004, Head) — twenty third in DH — 62 pts — Stifel U.S. Ski Group
• Bib 27 — 🇺🇸 Haley Cutler (USA, 1997, Atomic) — twenty eighth in DH — 23 pts — USA Impartial
• Bib 29 — 🇺🇸 Isabella Wright (USA, 1997, Atomic) — twenty seventh in DH — 37 pts — Stifel U.S. Ski Group
• Bib 30 — 🇺🇸 Keely Cashman (USA, 1999, Head) — twenty fifth in DH — 42 pts — Stifel U.S. Ski Group
• Bib 47 — 🇺🇸 Tricia Mangan (USA, 1997, Head) — Stifel U.S. Ski Group
• Bib 54 — 🇺🇸 Mary Bocock (USA, 2003) — Stifel U.S. Ski Group / Rowmark Ski Academy
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The ladies’s downhill takes place on Friday, March sixth, and begins at 5:30 a.m. ET / 2:30 a.m. PT. Followers in Nice Britain can watch the race at 10:30
Each day Program Girls’s Downhill
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Girls’s Downhill Begin Listing
