2025 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's overall

2025 Men's Overall World Cup Marco Odermatt of Switzerland, season champion for the fourth straight year 2025 Men's World Cup Overall • Downhill • Super-G Giant slalom • Slalom
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The men's overall in the 2025 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of 37 events in four disciplines: downhill (DH) (8 races), super-G (SG) (8 races), giant slalom (GS) (9 races), and slalom (SL) (12 races).^[1] Until finals, no races had been cancelled from the schedule, although one had to be rescheduled; however, the downhill at finals was permanently cancelled on 22 March. Swiss three-event star Marco Odermatt easily won his fourth consecutive overall title, along with both the super-G and giant slalom disciplines, all prior to the finals, and he then won the downhill discipline when the finals race in it was cancelled, giving him crystal globes in all four disciplines for the second straight year.

After cancellations in both of the prior two seasons, the two downhills scheduled on the Matterhorn in mid-November were removed from the schedule.^[2] Thus, for the third straight season, only the four major disciplines were contested on the World Cup circuit.

As is the case every other year, the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2025 took place, this time in Saalbach, Austria during 4–16 February 2025.^[3] The Swiss men's team excelled, winning 10 of a possible 18 medals. Gold medals were won by (all Swiss unless otherwise noted) Franjo von Allmen in the downhill, Odermatt in the super-G, Raphael Haaser of Austria in the giant slalom, Loïc Meillard in the slalom, von Allmen (DH) and Meillard (SL) in the team combined, and Italy (including Filippo Della Vite and Alex Vinatzer) in the mixed-team parallel; Meillard, with two golds and a bronze in giant slalom, was the only man to win three medals.

Season summary

Although Marco Odermatt of Switzerland had won the last three overall titles, his path to a fourth straight title would need to get past two new obstacles returning from their retirements, both of whom are sponsored by Red Bull, which is headquartered in Austria. First, Lucas Braathen of Norway, who won the 2023 slalom discipline title (and finished fourth overall that season) before retiring over a dispute with the national team over his individual commercial rights changed his sponsoring nation to Brazil, his mother's home nation, with the approval of Norway and added his Portuguese middle name (Pinheiro) to his FIS registration.^[4] Second, Marcel Hirscher of Austria, who retired from Alpine skiing in 2019 after winning eight consecutive men's overall titles, decided to return after five years away from the sport . . . but, like Braathen, for his mother's home nation: the Netherlands (again, with the approval of Austria).^[5] However, Hirscher suffered a season-ending tear of a cruciate ligament in December during training and expressed some doubt about whether he'd return for the 2026 season,^[6]

Early season

By placing second in each of the first two technical events (a giant slalom in Sölden and a slalom in Levi), two-time overall runner-up Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway jumped into the overall lead at the start of the season, ahead of his countryman Alexander Steen Olsen, who was leading after winning the giant slalom.^[7] In the third technical event, another slalom, Kristoffersen only finished sixth, allowing 2022 Olympic slalom gold medalist Clément Noël, who won both of the first two slaloms of the season, to tie Kristoffersen for the overall lead through three races.^[8]

After a week off, the men moved to Beaver Creek, Colorado (United States) for three races (DH, SG, GS). Defending overall champion Marco Odermatt of Switzerland was favored in each of the three races, and he won the super-G for his 38th World Cup victory,^[9] but he was unset by his teammate Justin Murisier in downhill.^[10] In the giant slalom, Kristoffersen's fifth-place finish (worth 45 points) was sufficient to put him in solo first pace, with Thomas Tumler of Switzerland collecting his first World Cup win and Odermatt once again failing to complete both runs.^[11] Odermatt finally won a giant slalom this season when the World Cup circuit returned to Europe at Val d'Isère, France; however, Kristoffersen narrowly retained the overall lead over Odermatt.^[12] Then, after an almost two-year victory drought, Kristoffersen won the slalom in Val d'Isére to stretch his lead to over 100 points, with his Norwegian teammate Atle Lie McGrath edging out Odermatt for second place.^[13]

The last four races before Christmas took place in Italy (Val Gardena for speed and Alta Badia for technical), and Odermatt's victories in both downhill and giant slalom, plus a third in super-G, returned him to the top of the leaderboard before Christmas, as well as establishing him as the male Swiss skier with the most World Cup victories (41, one more than Pirmin Zurbriggen).^[14]

Mid-season

Although Odermatt has consistently held the lead in the overall standings since seizing it, he was not able to establish his usual dominance over his rivals, particularly Kristoffersen. At Bormio (Italy) in the week between Christmas and New Years, the downhill and super-G were both won by first-time World Cup winners: Alexis Monney of Switzerland^[15] and Fredrik Møller of Norway,^[16] respectively, and the first race after New Years, a slalom in Madonna di Campiglio (Italy) was won by another first-time winner, Albert Popov of Bulgaria, recording his country's second-ever World Cup win and first in exactly 45 years.^[17] At Adelboden, a slalom victory by Noël (his third of the season) and a podium finish by Kristoffersen brought Kristoffersen back to within 56 points of Odermatt,^[18] but a come-from-behind win by Odermatt in the next day's giant slalom (his third consecutive in the discipline), followed immediately by Kristoffersen failing to finish the second run, restored Odermatt's substantial lead.^[19]

The next two weeks were the traditional downhill/super-G/slalom races at Wengen, Switzerland (the Lauberhorn ski races) and Kitzbühel, Austria (the Hahnenkammrennen). Odermatt won the downhill at Wengen and the super-G at Kitzbühel, while Kristoffersen's best finish was a third in the slalom at Wengen, enabling Odermatt to pad his lead.^[20]^[21] Odermatt's Swiss teammate Franjo von Allmen was also successful at Wengen, winning his first-ever World Cup race in the super-G and placing second in the downhill,^[22] while the Canadians James Crawford and Cameron Alexander pulled a surprising upset in the downhill at Kitzbühel, with Crawford also picking up his first World Cup win.^[23] In the slaloms, Wengen offered a Norwegian sweep, with the win going to Atle Lie McGrath,^[24] while Kitzbühel featured Noël's return to the top step of the podium for the fourth time this season.^[25]

Two days later, racing in the technical events resumed under the lights at Schlamding, Austria, with a Norwegian sweep: Alexander Steen Olsen in the giant slalom, his second win of the season (with Kristoffersen second and Odermatt third),^[26] and Timon Haugan in the slalom, also with his second win of the season (with Kristoffersen taking over the season lead in the discipline).^[27] The final race scheduled before worlds, a downhill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, had to be cancelled when fog wiped out both training runs;^[28] the race was quickly rescheduled at Kvitfjell in March.^[29]

Late season: Odermatt once again, despite Kristoffersen's chase

In the first set of races after worlds, a speed weekend in Crans Montana, Switzerland, Odermatt put up another 180 points on home snow by finishing second in the downhill to his teammate von Allmen^[30] and then winning the super-G.^[31] Kristoffersen fought back with a 140-point gain at Kransja Gora, Slovenia by winning both the giant slalom (with Odermatt third) and the slalom.^[32]^[33] But the next racing weekend at Kvitfjell, Norway comprised two downhills and a super-G; although Dominik Paris of Italy won two of the races,^[34]^[35] and Odermatt's teammate Von Allmen won the third,^[36] Odermatt posted two seconds and a fourth for 210 points, which left him with a 570-point lead with only 600 points still to go -- meaning that Kristoffersen would have to win all the six remaining races while Odermatt was limited to no more than 30 points. And in the very next race, a giant slalom in Hafjell, Norway, Odermatt finished second while Kristoffersen finished 16th, ending the battle for the overall title and setting up a battle for second between Kristoffersen and race victor Loïc Meillard, also of Switzerland, who had starred at the World Championships and now rose to third, just 130 points behind.^[37] Meillard, last season's runner-up to Odermatt, also won the slalom the next day (with Kristoffersen fifth, clinching a podium spot for the season), closing to 75 points behind Kristoffersen for second, with only von Allmen chasing him from behind.^[38]

Finals

The finals in all disciplines were held from 22 to 27 March 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho, United States.^[39] Only the top 25 skiers in each World Cup discipline and the winner of the Junior World Championship in the discipline, plus any skiers who have scored at least 500 points in the World Cup overall classification for the season, were eligible to compete in the final, and only the top 15 finishers earned World Cup points.

Not a single racer had earned points in all four events during the season, but Loïc Meillard was competing in his first downhill of the season at finals, and if he placed in the top 15, he would achieve that goal. However, a combination of fresh snow in the morning and high winds in the evening forced the downhill finals to be cancelled, thus handing the discipline crown to Odermatt (his fourth, matching his 2024 total) and also locking up a Swiss podium sweep (with von Allmen second and Monney third) -- while simultaneously ending Meillard's chances to score in the fourth discipline.^[40] The next day, though, the bad weather had moved on, and in a significant upset in the super-G, 23-year-old Austrian Lukas Feurstein won his first World Cup race -- and Austria's first World Cup victory in the entire men's 2024-25 World Cup season in any discipline.^[41] In giant slalom, Meillard won by almost a second over his teammate Odermatt, with Kristoffersen third, thus allowing Meillard to gain 40 points on Kristoffersen and leaving him 35 points behind in the race for second, with only one event -- slalom -- to go.^[42] However, for all intents and purposes, the drama concerning the runner-up to Odermatt ended after the first run of the slalom, when Meillard finished over 1.5 seconds behind the leader and almost that far behind Kristoffersen; even though Meillard recovered to post the fastest second-run time, he still finished just behind Kristoffersen (in 5th, with Kristoffersen 4th) and had to settle for third place on the season; the slalom itself was decided by only 0.03 seconds in favor of Kristoffersen's teammate Haugan (his third win of the season) over Noël.^[43]

Standings

#	Skier	DH 8 races	SG 8 races	GS 9 races	SL 12 races	Total
	Marco Odermatt	605	536	580	0	1,721
2	Henrik Kristoffersen	0	0	454	662	1,116
3	Loïc Meillard	0	32	434	610	1,076
4	Franjo von Allmen	522	314	0	0	836
5	Timon Haugan	0	0	212	609	821
6	Lucas Pinheiro Braathen	0	0	341	373	714
7	Atle Lie McGrath	0	0	194	474	668
8	Clément Noël	0	0	0	606	606
9	Alexis Monney	327	240	0	0	567
10	Stefan Rogentin	234	321	0	0	555
11	Dominik Paris	262	262	0	0	524
12	Vincent Kriechmayr	178	317	0	0	495
13	James Crawford	270	198	0	0	468
14	Alexander Steen Olsen	0	0	346	97	443
15	Miha Hrobat	320	120	0	0	440
16	Filip Zubčić	0	0	262	154	416
17	Justin Murisier	257	128	14	0	399
18	Mattia Casse	122	260	0	0	382
19	Nils Allègre	193	176	0	0	369
20	Fabio Gstrein	0	0	0	359	359
21	Manuel Feller	0	0	34	305	339
22	Cameron Alexander	194	144	0	0	338
23	Tanguy Nef	0	0	0	327	327
24	Raphael Haaser	6	225	94	0	325
25	Linus Straßer	0	0	9	305	314
26	Fredrik Møller	28	270	0	0	298
	Thomas Tumler	0	0	298	0	298
28	Ryan Cochran-Siegle	176	120	0	0	296
29	Adrian Smiseth Sejersted	144	144	0	0	288
30	Stefan Brennsteiner	0	0	284	0	284
31	Žan Kranjec	0	0	277	0	277
32	Alex Vinatzer	0	0	98	174	272
33	Stefan Eichberger	129	141	0	0	270
34	Steven Amiez	0	0	0	268	269
35	Lukas Feurstein	0	236	32	0	268
36	River Radamus	0	50	212	4	266
37	Marco Schwarz	0	0	161	82	243
38	Luca De Aliprandini	0	0	237	0	237
39	Stefan Babinsky	121	111	0	0	232
40	Albert Popov	0	0	0	229	229
41	Samuel Kolega	0	0	0	226	226
42	Daniel Yule	0	0	0	217	217
43	Daniel Hemetsberger	122	87	0	0	209
44	Patrick Feurstein	0	0	205	0	205
45	Dave Ryding	0	0	0	197	197
46	Luca Aerni	0	0	120	74	194
47	Bryce Bennett	164	26	0	0	190
48	Kristoffer Jakobsen	0	0	0	188	188
49	Giovanni Franzoni	40	147	0	0	187
50	Benjamin Ritchie	0	0	0	178	178
51	Victor Muffat-Jeandet	0	0	5	169	174
52	Léo Anguenot	0	0	165	0	165
53	Thibaut Favrot	0	0	162	0	162
54	Sam Maes	0	0	121	36	157
55	Joan Verdú	0	0	153	0	153
	Armand Marchant	0	0	0	153	153
57	Jan Zabystřan	46	97	0	0	143
58	Jared Goldberg	28	113	0	0	141
	Florian Schieder	128	13	0	0	141
60	Dominik Raschner	0	0	0	134	134
61	Lars Rösti	99	32	0	0	131
62	Cyprien Sarrazin	43	80	3	0	126
63	Gino Caviezel	0	36	89	0	125
64	Paco Rassat	0	0	0	123	123
65	Johannes Strolz	0	0	0	119	119
66	Romed Baumann	62	49	0	0	111
67	Anton Grammel	0	0	107	0	107
68	Maxence Muzaton	105	0	0	0	105
	Michael Matt	0	0	0	105	105
70	Elian Lehto	70	27	0	0	97
	Christof Innerhofer	38	59	0	0	97
72	Blaise Giezendanner	39	50	0	0	89
	Otmar Striedinger	64	25	0	0	89
74	Brodie Seger	66	21	0	0	87
	Adrien Théaux	57	30	0	0	87
76	Adrian Pertl	0	0	0	86	86
77	Alexis Pinturault	0	26	48	0	74
78	Tormis Laine	0	0	44	27	71
	Marc Rochat	0	0	0	71	71
80	Marco Kohler	59	9	0	0	68
81	Felix Monsén	20	45	0	0	65
82	Istok Rodeš	0	0	0	62	62
83	Tobias Kastlunger	0	0	0	61	61
	Stefano Gross	0	0	0	61	61
85	Laurie Taylor	0	0	0	59	59
86	Nejc Naraločnik	58	0	0	0	58
87	Ramon Zenhäusern	0	0	0	57	57
88	Eduard Hallberg	0	0	0	55	55
	Billy Major	0	0	0	55	55
90	Alexander Schmid	0	0	53	0	53
91	Martin Čater	50	2	0	0	52
92	Matthieu Bailet	27	23	0	0	50
93	Florian Loriot	0	49	0	0	49
	Kyle Negomir	6	43	0	0	49
95	Rasmus Windingstad	0	1	47	0	48
	Jett Seymour	0	0	0	48	48
97	Luis Vogt	28	18	0	0	46
98	Filippo Della Vite	0	0	45	0	45
	Jeffrey Read	3	42	0	0	45
100	Fabian Gratz	0	0	43	0	43
101	Fabian Ax Swartz	0	0	0	41	41
	Nils Alphand	35	6	0	0	41
	Nicolo Molteni	22	19	0	0	41
104	Sam Morse	34	6	0	0	40
105	Andreas Ploier	10	28	0	0	38
106	Jonas Stockinger	0	0	37	0	37
107	Giovanni Borsotti	0	0	35	0	35
108	Alban Elezi Cannaferina	0	0	32	0	32
109	Joshua Sturm	0	0	0	31	31
110	Daniel Danklmaier	0	29	0	0	29
111	Felix Hacker	10	18	0	0	28
112	Pietro Zazzi	0	24	0	0	24
	Stefan Rieser	24	0	0	0	24
114	Tommy Ford	0	0	23	0	23
115	Simon Jocher	22	0	0	0	22
	Livio Hiltbrand	22	0	0	0	22
	William Hansson	0	0	22	0	22
118	Erik Read	0	0	11	10	21
119	Flavio Vitale	0	0	20	0	20
120	Stefan Luitz	0	0	19	0	19
121	Benjamin Jacques Alliod	18	0	0	0	18
	Noel Zwischenbrugger	0	0	18	0	18
123	Patrick Kenney	0	0	17	0	17
124	Joaquim Salarich	0	0	0	16	16
	Riley Seger	0	16	0	0	16
	Fadri Janutin	0	0	16	0	16
	Vincent Wieser	8	8	0	0	16
	Oscar Andreas Sandvik	0	0	0	16	16
129	Rasmus Bakkevig	0	0	14	0	14
130	Hugo Desgrippes	0	0	0	13	13
	Andreas Žampa	0	0	13	0	13
132	Sebastian Foss-Solevåg	0	0	0	12	12
	AJ Ginnis	0	0	0	12	12
	Gustav Wissting	0	0	0	12	12
	Wiley Maple	10	2	0	0	12
	Loévan Parand	0	0	12	0	12
137	Manuel Tranninger	5	6	0	0	11
138	Simon Maurberger	0	0	0	10	10
	Christopher Neumayer	10	0	0	0	10
	Diego Orecchioni	0	0	10	0	10
141	Anton Tremmel	0	0	0	9	9
142	Erik Arvidsson	8	0	0	0	8
	Henrik von Appen	8	0	0	0	8
	Marcel Hirscher	0	0	8	0	8
	Eirik Hystad Solberg	0	0	0	8	8
146	Hannes Zingerle	0	0	7	0	7
	Josua Mettler	7	0	0	0	7
	Bridger Gile	0	0	7	0	7
149	Livio Simonet	0	0	4	0	4
	Marco Pfiffner	4	0	0	0	4
	Arnaud Boisset	0	4	0	0	4
152	Jesper Wahlqvist	0	0	3	0	3
153	Mattias Rönngren	0	0	2	0	2
154	Matteo Franzoso	0	1	0	0	1