2026 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's slalom

2026 Men's Slalom World Cup
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The men's slalom in the 2026 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup is scheduled to consist of eleven events, including the discipline final. For the second straight year, the season is scheduled to open in Levi, Finland (16 November), and the entire season will be held in Europe, 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 slalom, the last men's event in Alpine skiing, is scheduled to be held on Monday, 16 February.

Season summary

In the opening slalom of the season in Levi, 2023 discipline champion Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, who then skied for his native Norway before transferring to his mother's homeland of Brazil in 2025 after a one-year retirement, recorded the first World Cup victory ever for his new country and its one-man team.[4] At the same time, six-time discipline champion Marcel Hirscher, who won all of those championships while skiing for Austria before transferring to the Netherlands after a six-year retirement, announced that his return to the World Cup circuit from his season-ending injury in December 2024 would not take place until January 2026.[4] A week later, the second slalom, in Gurgl, Austria, produced a huge upset as France's Paco Rassat, who had finished a career-best sixth the week before, came from 14th place on his second run to earn his first World Cup victory in his first World Cup podium finish, which gave him the lead in both the discipline and the overall World Cup standings.[5] After a break while the World Cup series moved to North America, slalom resumed at Val d'Isère, France, where Norway's Timon Haugan, who had failed to podium the day before in giant slalom after being in third following the first run, held off Loïc Meillard of Switzerland, the previous day's winner, to become the third different winner in the discipline this season and take over the discipline lead.[6] Finally, in the last World Cup race before Christmas, the aptly-named Clément Noël of France held the slalom lead after the first run, but Norway's Atle Lie McGrath passed him on the second run for the victory, thus denying Noël a holiday-themed win, with McGrath's Norwegian teammate Haugan (fourth) retaining the discipline lead.[7]

Returning from the New Year's break, the men began a series of five slaloms in five weeks with a night slalom in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, which this time was won by Noël, who came from behind to edge Finland's Eduard Hallberg and thus trail Haugen by only three points for the discipline lead.[8] A week later in Adelboden, Switzerland, France's Rassat claimed his second victory of the season in the slalom, edging out two Norwegians (McGrath and Henrik Kristoffersen) for the win and claiming the lead in the discipline himself by 26 points over Noël, as Haugen failed to finish the first run.[9] In the third race, at Wengen, Switzerland, McGrath repeated his victory there from 2025, beating his good friend (with birthdays only two days apart) and former Norwegian teammate Braathen by almost half a second, which propelled him into a narrow discipline lead, now followed by Braathen, Noël, Rassat, and Haugan, with only 42 points separating the five of them.[10] But the next week, in the slalom at Kitzbühel, Austria, the home country's Manuel Feller came from fourth after the first run to overtake leader Loïc Meillard and save Austrian honor for the weekend; meanwhile, when McGrath failed to finish his first run, Braathen, who finished fourth, took over the discipline lead.[11] Three days later, about a week before the start of the Olympics, a night slalom under the lights at Schlamding turned into an all-Norwegian battle between McGrath and Kristoffersen, with last year's discipline champion Kristoffersen coming from behind on the second run to claim his first victory of the season, while McGrath grabbed a one-point lead over Braathen in the discipline race.[12]

The first run at the Winter Olympics started in a light snowfall, which quickly turned into a blizzard with low visibility, allowing McGrath, the first skier, to build a lead of 0.59 over Meillard, the second skier, who built another 0.35 over the next-best skier, Fabio Gstrein of Austria, with only seven skiers within two seconds of McGrath's lead and 11 of the top 30 and 49 out of 96 total failing to finish the run; however, McGrath straddled a gate and skied out early in the (clear) second run, allowing Meillard to complete his set of Olympic medals at these games with a gold medal (to join his silver from the team combined and his bronze from the giant slalom). Gstrein, who matched Meillard for the best second-run time, won the silver for the first medal for the Austrian men's Alpine skiing team first individual medal of the games, and Kristoffersen, who posted the third-best second-run time, took the bronze for his second career Olympic medal.[13]

Finals

The World Cup finals in the discipline are scheduled to take place on Wednesday, 25 March 2026 on the Olympialøypa course at Hafjell, near Lillehammer, Norway.[14] 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.

Standings

Venue
16 Nov 2025
Levi
22 Nov 2025
Gurgl
14 Dec 2025
Val d'Isère
22 Dec 2025
Alta Badia
11 Jan 2026
Adelboden
18 Jan 2026
Wengen
25 Jan 2026
Kitzbühel
28 Jan 2026
Schladming
16 Feb 2026
Bormio
8 Mar 2026
Kranjska Gora
25 Mar 2025
Hafjell
# Skier Finland Austria France Italy Italy Switzerland Switzerland Austria Austria Italy Slovenia Norway Total
1 Norway  Atle Lie McGrath DNF2 60 DNF2 100 32 80 100 DNF1 80 DNF2 452
2 Brazil  Lucas Pinheiro Braathen 100 26 DNF2 45 50 50 80 50 50 DNF1 451
3 France Clément Noël 80 22 DNF2 80 100 32 29 32 60 DNF2 435
4 Norway Timon Haugan 45 50 100 50 40 DNF1 45 29 40 ④ 399
5 Norway  Henrik Kristoffersen 20 22 60 9 16 60 60 26 100 ③ 373
6 France Paco Rassat 40 100 DNF1 40 60 100 DNF2 18 DNF2 DNF1 358
7  Switzerland  Loïc Meillard 18 DNF2 80 60 24 DNF2 50 80 DNF2 ① 312
8 Finland Eduard Hallberg 60 DNF2 22 32 80 40 DNF1 45 DNF2 DNF1 279
9 Austria Manuel Feller 24 4 DNF1 24 DNF2 45 24 100 26 DNF1 247
10  Switzerland  Tanguy Nef 10 45 DNF1 36 26 32 DNF1 36 29 ⑥ 214
11 Belgium Armand Marchant DNQ 80 9 6 40 26 6 40 DNF2 ⑤ 207
12 Germany Linus Straßer 16 32 DNQ 14 18 DNF2 24 60 DNF1 ⑨ 164
13 Italy Alex Vinatzer DNF1 12 50 26 DNF1 14 20 DNF1 36 DNF1 158
14 Austria Fabio Gstrein 26 15 16 20 DNF1 DNQ 11 24 45 ② 157
15 France Steven Amiez 32 16 29 12 29 36 DNF1 DNF1 DNQ ⑱ 154
France Victor Muffat-Jeandet 11 36 13 15 11 22 18 13 15 DNS 154
17 Norway  Eirik Hystad Solberg 14 8 DNQ DNQ 45 11 26 6 32 ⑦ 142
18 Austria Michael Matt 29 DNQ 16 22 22 13 36 DNQ DNQ ⑧ 138
19 Italy Tommaso Sala DNQ 5 36 18 12 DNQ 5 10 24 DNF1 110
20 Bulgaria Albert Popov 8 29 12 8 DNF2 24 DNF1 9 13 DNF1 103
21  Switzerland  Daniel Yule 9 24 10 5 DNF2 5 13 22 14 ⑮ 102
22 Norway  Oscar Andreas Sandvik DNQ 13 45 29 DNF1 DNQ 8 DNF1 DNF1 DNS 95
23 United Kingdom Laurie Taylor 50 DNQ 22 13 DNF2 9 DNQ DNQ DNQ DNF1 94
24 United Kingdom Dave Ryding 36 6 DNF2 16 DNQ 20 DNF1 11 DNF2 ⑰ 89
25 Croatia Samuel Kolega 15 DNF1 14 11 13 10 DNQ DNQ 18 DNF1 81
26  Switzerland  Matthias Iten DNF1 DNS 26 4 DNF1 DNQ 40 DNF1 DNF1 ⑪ 70
27 Austria Marco Schwarz 12 10 32 DSQ2 DNQ 15 DNS DNF2 DNQ ⑩ 69
28 Norway  Hans Grahl-Madsen DNF1 DNS 40 DNQ DNF2 DNQ 14 8 DNF1 DNS 62
29 Austria Joshua Sturm DNQ DNQ DNF1 11 DNF1 DNF1 15 12 22 DNS 60
30 Austria Dominik Raschner DNQ 40 DNF1 DNQ DNF1 18 DNF1 DNF2 DNF2 DNS 58
31 Austria Johannes Strolz 7 7 8 DSQ1 14 DNF1 3 16 DNF2 DNS 55
32 Croatia Filip Zubčić 13 DSQ1 DNQ DNQ DNS DNF1 36 5 DNQ ⑬ 54
33 Sweden Fabian Ax Swartz DNF1 DNF2 DSQ1 DNF1 DNQ 8 9 14 16 ⑭ 47
34 United Kingdom Billy Major 4 14 7 DNQ DNQ 12 DNQ 7 DNQ ⑯ 44
35 Belgium Sam Maes 6 11 11 DNF1 DNF2 DNQ 10 DNQ DNF1 DNF1 38
36 United States Benjamin Ritchie DNF2 DNQ DNF1 DNF1 DNF2 DSQ1 DNQ 16 20 DNS 36
37  Switzerland  Ramon Zenhäusern DNQ DNF1 6 DNQ DNF1 16 DNQ DNF1 11 DNS 33
38 Italy Tobias Kastlunger 22 DNQ DNF2 DNQ DNQ 4 DNQ DNQ DNQ DSQ1 26
39 France Auguste Aulnette DNS 24 DNQ DNF1 DNQ DNS1 DNQ DNF1 DNS 24
40 France Hugo Desgrippes DNQ DNS 22 DNQ DNQ DNF1 DNF1 DNQ DNQ DNS 22
Austria Simon Rueland DNQ 22 DNQ DNF1 DNQ DNQ DNQ DNF1 DNF1 DNS 22
42 Sweden Kristoffer Jakobsen DNQ DNF1 DNF1 DNQ DNF2 DNF1 DNF1 20 DNF1 DNF1 20
Spain Joaquim Salarich DNQ DNQ DNF1 DNF1 20 DNF1 DNQ DNF1 DNQ ⑲ 20
44 Austria Adrian Pertl DNQ DNQ DNS1 DNS DNQ 18 DNF1 DNF2 DNS 18
45 France Antoine Azzolin DNQ DNF1 DNQ DNQ 15 DNQ DNF1 DNF2 DNF1 DNS 15
46 Germany Sebastian Holzmann DNQ DNF1 DNF1 7 DNF1 DNQ 7 DNQ DNQ DNS 14
47 Japan Yohei Koyama 3 9 DNQ DNF1 DNS 12
Croatia Istok Rodeš DNQ DNF1 DNQ DNQ DNQ DNF1 12 DNQ DNF2 DNF1 12
United States Luke Winters DNQ DNF1 DNF1 DNS DNQ DNQ DNS 12 DNS 12
50 Norway  Theodor Brækken DNQ DNQ DNF1 DNQ DNF1 DNF1 DNS DNQ 10 DNS 10
Italy Matteo Canins DNF1 DNQ DNQ DNQ 10 DNQ DNQ DNQ DNF1 DNS 10
52  Switzerland  Marc Rochat DNQ DNQ DNF1 DNQ DNF2 7 DNF1 DNF1 DNQ DNS 7
53 Japan Shiro Aihara DNS DNQ DNF1 DNQ DNF1 6 DNQ DNQ DNQ ⑳ 6
54 United States Cooper Puckett 5 DNS DNF1 DNQ DNS DNF1 DNF1 DNQ DNS 5
55 Spain Juan del Campo DNQ DNF1 DNQ DNF1 DNQ DNF1 DNQ 4 DNF1 DNS 4
Sweden Gustav Wissting DNQ DNS DNF1 DNS 4 DNQ DNQ DNS 4
57 Italy Corrado Barbera DNQ DNS DNQ 3 DNQ DNF1 DNQ DNS 3
Finland Jesper Pohjolainen DNQ DNQ DNF1 3 DNQ DNQ DNF1 DNQ DNQ DNF1 3
59 United States Jett Seymour DNQ DNQ DNF1 2 DNF1 DNQ DNQ DSQ1 DNQ DNS 2
60  Switzerland  Luca Aerni DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNF1 DNS 0
Greece AJ Ginnis DNQ DNS DNF1 0
Canada Erik Read DNQ DNF1 DNQ DNF1 DNQ DNF1 DNQ DNF1 DNS 0
Germany Anton Tremmel DNQ DNF1 DNF1 DNQ DNF1 DSQ1 DNF1 DNF1 DNF1 DNS 0
Estonia Tormis Laine DNF1 DNQ DNF1 DNF1 DNF1 DNQ DNS DNF1 DNF1 DNF1 0
References [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]

Legend

  •   Winner (100 points)
  •   2nd place (80 points)
  •   3rd place (60 points)
  • DNQ = Did not qualify for run 2
  • DNF1 = Did not finish run 1
  • DSQ1 = Disqualified run 1
  • DNF2 = Did not finish run 2
  • DSQ2 = Disqualified run 2
  • DNS2 = Did not start run 2
  •   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 16 February 2026, after race 9 and the Olympics.[25]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Audi FIS Ski Men's World Cup 2025/26 Initial Schedule" (PDF). fis-ski.com. 12 June 1015. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  2. ^ "Winter Olympic Games: Milano Cortina 2026". Retrieved 28 June 2025.
  3. ^ "Milano Cortina 2026: Bormio". Retrieved 28 June 2025.
  4. ^ a b AFP (16 November 2025). "Braathen wins Levi slalom for first Brazilian World Cup victory". France 24. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  5. ^ AFP (22 November 2025). "Rassat claims 'insane' Gurgl slalom for first World Cup victory". France 24. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
  6. ^ dpa (14 December 2025). "Haugan denies Meillard a winning Val d'Isere double". MSN.com. Retrieved 19 December 2025.
  7. ^ dpa (22 December 2025). "McGrath robs Noel of predestined Christmas victory". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
  8. ^ AFP (7 January 2026). "France's Noel wins World Cup slalom at Madonna di Campiglio". France 24. Retrieved 17 January 2026.
  9. ^ Gomes, Maya (11 January 2026). "Paco Rassat stuns with Adelboden slalom World Cup victory". NBC Sports. Retrieved 17 January 2026.
  10. ^ Associated Press (18 January 2026). "Norwegian skier McGrath wins Wengen slalom ahead of good friend Pinheiro Braathen". FOX Sports. Retrieved 18 January 2026.
  11. ^ AFP (25 January 2026). "Austrian joy as Feller edges Meillard for Kitzbuehel slalom win". MSN.com. Retrieved 8 February 2026.
  12. ^ AFP (28 January 2026). "Norway's Kristoffersen wins Schladming slalom". rfi.fr. Retrieved 9 February 2026.
  13. ^ Stern, Macklin (16 February 2026). "Loic Meillard withstands mercurial weather conditions to win slalom Olympic gold". NBC Sports. Retrieved 16 February 2026.
  14. ^ "FIS Alpine Meeting: Focus on Athlete Safety and Season Outlook". fis-ski.com. 12 May 2025. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
  15. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Levi Men's SL (FIN)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  16. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Gurgl Men's SL (AUT)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
  17. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Val d'Isère Men's SL (FRA)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 14 December 2025.
  18. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Alta Badia Men's SL (ITA)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
  19. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Madonna di Campiglio Men's SL (ITA)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 7 January 2026.
  20. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Adelboden Men's SL (AUT)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 11 January 2026.
  21. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Wengen Men's SL (AUT)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 18 January 2026.
  22. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Kitzbühel Men's SL (AUT)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 25 January 2026.
  23. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Schladming Men's SL (AUT)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 28 January 2026.
  24. ^ "Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics Men's SL (ITA)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 16 February 2026.
  25. ^ "Men's Slalom standing". FIS. Retrieved 28 January 2026.
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