2026 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's downhill

The men's downhill in the 2026 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup is scheduled to consist of nine events, including the final. The season is scheduled to begin with two downhills at Beaver Creek, Colorado (U.S.) on 4 and 5 December 2025, then to proceed to Europe for the remainder of the races, according to the initial schedule released on 12 June 2025.^[1]

The season will be interrupted for the quadrennial 2026 Winter Olympics in three regions in Italy -- Milan, the Stelvio Pass, and Cortina d'Ampezzo -- during 6–22 February 2026.^[2] All of the Alpine skiing events for men are scheduled to take place on the classic Stelvio course at Bormio.^[3] The championship in men's downhill is scheduled to be held on Saturday, 7 February.

The start of the downhill season at Beaver Creek (U.S.) ran into scheduling problems, as high winds and a large impending weekend snowstorm led to (1) the cancellation of one of the two downhills scheduled there and (2) the date of the second one being moved up to the planned date of the first one (4 December); the cancelled race was added as a second downhill at Val Gardena (Italy) two weeks later.^[4] The contested downhill at Beaver Creek was then won by defending discipline champion Marco Odermatt of Switzerland, who defeated American Ryan Cochran-Siegle by 0.3 seconds.^[5] In the first of the two races now at Val Gardena, overcast conditions led to the downhill being shortened and still needing almost four hours to complete due to the delays caused by fog, but Odermatt won again for his 50th overall World Cup victory, edging his compatriot Franjo von Allmen and tying Alberto Tomba (Italy) for third all-time among World Cup men, with only Ingmar Stenmark (Sweden) (86 wins), Marcel Hirscher (Austria/Netherlands) (67), and Hermann Maier (Austria) (54) still ahead of him.^[6] Two days later, the results were flipped in the second downhill, with von Allmen edging Odermatt in a full-length downhill and closing to within 50 points of the discipline lead.^[7]

The downhill season resumed with back-to-back weeks in mid-January at Wengen, Switzerland, and Kitzbühel, Austria. The downhill at Wengen was run on a shortened course due to high winds, but Odermatt dominated to win his fourth straight downhill at Wengen, with Austria's Vincent Kriechmayr (0.79 sec) his closest challenger, thereby increasing Odermatt's lead in the discipline over von Allmen (who finished fourth) to exactly 100 points.^[8] But rising young Italian star Giovanni Franzoni, who had posted his first World Cup win the day before in a super-G at Wengen before finishing third in the downhill, got revenge the next week in the legendary downhill at Kitzbühel, edging Odermatt by 0.07 to win, and then dedicating the victory to his late friend and teammate – and roommate at Kitzbühel last year – Matteo Franzoso, who was killed in a training crash in Chile in September 2025.^[9] Finally, in the last race before the Olympics, von Allmen dominated the downhill at Crans Montana, Switzerland, defeating runner-up Dominik Paris of Italy by about two-thirds of a second for his second straight victory on the course, which kept von Allmen in second place in the discipline, 115 points behind Odermatt, with three races remaining after the Olympics.^[10]

At the Olympic downhill at Bormio, the Swiss got into position for an unprecedented podium sweep, with von Allmen in first by 0.7 second, followed by Odermatt and Alexis Monney. But the later-running Italians Franzoni and Dominik Paris (known as the "King of Bormio" for his seven victories there) both fed off the support from the home crowd and squeezed in between von Allmen and Odermatt, knocking Odermatt off the podium but retaining von Allmen as the fifth Swiss winner of the men's downhill (after Bernhard Russi, Pirmin Zurbriggen, Didier Defago, and Beat Feuz).^[11]

The World Cup finals in the discipline are scheduled to take place on Saturday, 21 March 2026 on the Olympiabakken course at Kvitfjell, near Lillehammer, Norway.^[12] Only the top 25 skiers in the World Cup downhill discipline and the winner of the 2026 FIS Junior World Championships in the discipline, plus any skiers who have scored at least 500 points in the World Cup overall classification for the season, will be eligible to compete in the final, and only the top 15 will earn World Cup points.

	Venue	4 Dec 2025 Beaver Creek	4 Dec 2025 Beaver Creek	18 Dec 2025 Val Gardena/Gröden R#	20 Dec 2025 Val Gardena/Gröden	17 Jan 2026 Wengen	24 Jan 2026 Kitzbühel	1 Feb 2026 Crans Montana	7 Feb 2026 Bormio	28 Feb 2026 Garmisch	14 Mar 2026 Courchevel	21 Mar 2026 Kvitfjell
#	Skier												Total
1	Marco Odermatt	x	100	100	80	100	80	50	④				510
2	Franjo von Allmen	x	50	80	100	50	15	100	①				395
3	Dominik Paris	x	40	60	40	40	36	80	③				296
4	Giovanni Franzoni	x	2	32	22	60	100	8	②				224
5	Florian Schieder	x	18	40	60	22	50	29	⑰				219
6	Vincent Kriechmayr	x	45	7	20	80	20	DNS	⑥				172
7	Nils Allègre	x	22	50	13	29	45	7	⑧				166
8	Ryan Cochran-Siegle	x	80	0	DNF	16	0	60	⑱				156
9	Mattia Casse	x	8	36	32	3	24	36	⑪				139
10	Maxence Muzaton	x	20	0	8	24	60	22	DNF				134
11	Alexis Monney	x	29	29	DNF	45	0	26	⑤				129
12	Niels Hintermann	x	11	11	36	10	40	15	DNS				123
13	Cameron Alexander	x	26	DNS	DNS	36	18	24	⑭				104
14	Nils Alphand	x	0	45	50	0	DNF	DNF	㉒				95
	Alessio Miggiano	x	DNS	13	45	0	5	32	DNS				95
16	Daniel Hemetsberger	x	6	15	12	32	DNF	18	⑦				83
	Elian Lehto	x	14	26	26	2	15	0	⑳				83
18	Benjamin Jacques Alliod	x	0	18	11	8	0	45	DNS				82
19	Adrian Smiseth Sejersted	x	60	4	0	0	10	DNS	DNF				74
20	Christof Innerhofer	x	0	24	0	26	3	10	DNS				63
	Justin Murisier	x	10	9	15	14	0	15	DNS				63
22	Miha Hrobat	x	15	2	0	7	29	5	⑫				58
23	Stefan Rogentin	x	32	1	0	18	0	6	㉓				57
	Luis Vogt	x	DNS	10	2	0	32	13	DNS				57
25	Marco Kohler	x	7	24	0	20	DNF	DNS					51
26	Stefan Babinsky	x	13	18	0	0	0	16	㉖				47
27	Lars Rösti	x	0	5	0	1	0	40	DNS				46
28	Kyle Negomir	x	0	24	15	0	0	0	⑩				39
29	Simon Jocher	x	0	0	18	9	1	10	㉑				38
30	Stefan Eichberger	x	36	DNS									36
31	Adrien Théaux	x	0	6	29	0	DNS						35
32	Bryce Bennett	x	3	0	5	11	0	13	⑬				32
33	Felix Monsen	x	0	0	1	0	26	4	DNS				31
	Andreas Ploier	x	0	DNS	24	6	0	1	DNS				31
35	Raphael Haaser	x	12	0	DNS	12	6	DNS	⑮				30
36	Blaise Giezendanner	x	0	0	18	0	10	0	DNS				28
37	Alban Elezi Cannaferina	x	0	DNS		4	22	DNS	㉗				26
38	James Crawford	x	0	8	4	5	8	0	⑨				25
39	Aleksander Aamodt Kilde	x	24	0	DNS	DNS		0	DNS				24
40	Livio Hiltbrand	x	0	3	0	0	0	20	DNS				23
	Stefan Rieser	x	DNS	14	9	0	DNF	0	DNS				23
42	Henrik Von Appen	x	0	0	6	15	0	DNF	DNS				21
	Romed Baumann	x	9	12	0	0	0	0	DNS				21
44	Brodie Seger	x	16	0	0	0	2	0	㉘				18
45	Charles Gamel Seigneur	x	DNS	0	0	DNS	16	0	DNS				16
	Martin Čater	x	0	0	DNF	13	0	3	⑯				16
	Matthieu Bailet	x	0	DNS	3	DNF	13	0	DNS				16
48	Wiley Maple	x	0	0	0	0	12	2	DNS				14
49	Erik Arvidsson	x	0	0	0	0	12	0	DNS				12
50	Guglielmo Bosca	x	0	DNS	DNS	DNF	0	11	DNS				11
51	Sam Alphand	x	DNS		10	DSQ	DNS	0	DNS				10
52	Manuel Traninger	x	0	0	DNS	0	7	0	DNS				7
	Sam Morse	x	0	0	7	0	0	0	⑲				7
54	Jan Zabystřan	x	5	0	0	0	0	0	㉔				5
55	Jeffrey Read	x	0	0	0	0	4	0	㉕				4
	Nejc Naraločnik	x	4	0	DNF	DNS							4
57	Fredrik Møller	x	1	DNF	DNS			0	DNS				1
57	Otmar Striedinger	x	0	0	0	0	DNS	0	DNS				0
	Jared Goldberg	x	0	0	0	0	DNS	0	DNS				0
	Felix Hacker	x	DNS	DNS	DNS								0
	Vincent Wieser	x	DNS	0	0	DNS	0	0	DNS				0
	Marco Pfiffner	x	0	0	0	0	0	0	㉙				0
	Josua Mettler	x	DNS										0
	References	[13]	[14]	[15]	[16]	[17]	[18]	[19]	[20]

•   Winner (100 points)
•   2nd place (80 points)
•   3rd place (60 points)
• DNF = Did not finish
• DSQ = Disqualified
•   Did not start (DNS)
•   Not eligible for finals (NE)
•   Race canceled (x)
•   FIS non-World Cup race (Olympics)
• R# = Rescheduled (make-up) race
• Updated at 11 February 2026, after six races plus Olympics.^[21]

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