The men's downhill in the 2025 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of eight events. It had been scheduled for nine, but the finals were cancelled due to fresh snow and high winds.[1] Two-time discipline champion Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway, who failed to repeat last season because he suffered life-threatening injuries on the Lauberhorn downhill course in January 2024, developed a shoulder infection at the surgical site over the summer and needed a second surgery, which caused him to miss the entire season, making defending discipline champion Marco Odermatt of Switzerland an overwhelming favorite to repeat as the season champion.[2] And Odermatt did indeed repeat as champion when the finals were cancelled with him in the discipline lead.
2025 Men's Downhill World Cup
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The season was interrupted for the biennial Alpine Skiing World Championships in Saalbach, Austria during 4–16 February 2025.[3] The championship in men's downhill was held on Sunday, 9 February, and was dominated by the Swiss team, with young star Franjo von Allmen winning gold, teammate Alexis Monney taking bronze, and five Swiss skiers finishing in the top 12.[4]
Season summary
editDownhill season began in early December 2024 at Beaver Creek (Colorado), USA with Swiss skier Justin Murisier winning his first-ever World Cup race in an upset over his Swiss teammate Marco Odermatt.[5] However, Odermatt bounced back to dominate the next downhill in Val Gardena.[6] In the third downhill, on the Stelvio course in Bormio, Odermatt made a mid race error that pushed him down to fifth, but two of his Swiss teammates (Alexis Monney and 23-year-old Franjo von Allmen) made up for it by taking the top two places, which gave the Swiss the top four places in the discipline standings for the season.[7] Once again, Odermatt bounced back to defeat Von Allmen on home snow in Wengen,[8] but then the Swiss downhill monopoly for the season was finally ended by Canada's James Crawford, with his first World Cup victory, in Kitzbühel, Austria.[9] The final race before the World Championships, scheduled in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, was cancelled when two straight days of fog caused both pre-race training runs to be cancelled, which meant that the downhill could not take place; the race was rescheduled for the first day at Kvitfjell.[10]
In the World Championships, von Allmen and Monney continued their meteoric rise, with von Allmen defeating home star Vincent Kriechmayr for the gold medal and Monney claiming the bronze, with Odermatt fifth.[4] In the first race after worlds, von Allmen led another Swiss sweep on the home snow in Crans Montana, with Odermatt second and Monney third.[11] However, in the first of the last two races before final, the make-up at Kvitfjell, Italy's Dominik Paris beat three Swiss skiers led by Odermatt to capture his fifth win (four in DH) on the course.[12] But the next day, the Swiss, led once again by Von Allmen, and followed by Odermatt and Rogentin, swept the podium.[13] With the win, Von Allmen cut Odermatt's lead for the discipline title to 83 points, meaning that either of them could still win the crystal globe for the discipline at finals.[13]
Finals
editThe World Cup finals in the discipline were scheduled to take place on Saturday, 22 March 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho, United States.[14] Only the top 25 skiers in the World Cup downhill discipline and the winner of the Junior World Championship in that discipline (Felix Rösle of Germany), 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 would earn World Cup points. The only 500+-point skier who chose to enter was Loïc Meillard of Switzerland, and two qualified skiers (Cameron Alexander of Canada and Mattia Casse of Italy) did not enter due to injury, leaving the total field at 25 (including Rösle). However, a combination of fresh snow in the morning and high winds in the early afternoon forced the downhill finals to be cancelled, thus handing the discipline crown to Odermatt and also locking up a Swiss podium sweep (with von Allman second and Monney third).[1]
Standings
edit| Venue | 6 Dec 2024 Beaver Creek |
21 Dec 2024 Val Gardena/Gröden |
28 Dec 2024 Bormio |
18 Jan 2025 Wengen |
25 Jan 2025 Kitzbühel |
2 Feb 2025 Garmisch |
9 Feb 2025 Saalbach WC |
22 Feb 2025 Crans Montana |
7 Mar 2025 Kvitfjell R# |
8 Mar 2025 Kvitfjell |
22 Mar 2025 Sun Valley |
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Total |
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Marco Odermatt |
80 | 100 | 45 | 100 | 40 | x | ⑤ | 80 | 80 | 80 | x | 605 |
| 2 | Franjo von Allmen |
3 | 80 | 80 | 80 | 29 | x | ① | 100 | 50 | 100 | x | 522 |
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| 3 | Alexis Monney |
20 | 0 | 100 | DSQ | 80 | x | ③ | 60 | 45 | 22 | x | 327 |
| 4 |  Miha Hrobat |
60 | 16 | 36 | 60 | 45 | x | DNF | 29 | 24 | 50 | x | 320 |
| 5 |  James Crawford |
50 | 0 | 14 | 29 | 100 | x | ㉓ | 40 | 5 | 32 | x | 270 |
| 6 | Dominik Paris |
12 | 6 | 0 | 50 | 22 | x | ④ | 32 | 100 | 40 | x | 262 |
| 7 | Justin Murisier |
100 | 2 | 40 | 36 | 24 | x | ⑧ | 13 | 16 | 26 | x | 257 |
| 8 | Stefan Rogentin |
20 | 26 | 22 | 22 | 0 | x | ⑫ | 24 | 60 | 60 | x | 234 |
| 9 | Cameron Alexander |
DNF | 29 | 60 | 45 | 60 | x | DNS | 194 | ||||
| 10 |  Nils Allègre |
32 | 50 | 26 | 13 | 4 | x | ⑩ | 22 | 32 | 14 | x | 193 |
| 11 | Vincent Kriechmayr |
45 | 0 | 32 | DNF | DNS | x | ② | 50 | 22 | 29 | x | 178 |
| 12 | Ryan Cochran-Siegle |
22 | 60 | DNF | 24 | 12 | x | ⑬ | 20 | 26 | 12 | x | 176 |
| 13 | Bryce Bennett |
40 | 32 | 0 | 40 | 2 | x | ⑩ | 14 | 36 | 20 | x | 164 |
| 14 | Adrian Smiseth Sejersted |
9 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 29 | x | ⑥ | 12 | 40 | 45 | x | 144 |
| 15 | Stefan Eichberger |
11 | 40 | DNF | 0 | 0 | x | ㉘ | 36 | 18 | 24 | x | 129 |
| 16 | Florian Schieder |
8 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 16 | x | ⑯ | 45 | 13 | 20 | x | 128 |
| 17 | Daniel Hemetsberger |
7 | 22 | 24 | 3 | 50 | x | ⑦ | 16 | DNS | x | 122 | |
| Mattia Casse |
5 | 18 | 50 | 20 | 11 | x | ㉒ | 18 | DNS | 122 | |||
| 19 | Stefan Babinsky |
14 | 0 | 16 | 10 | 32 | x | ⑨ | 11 | 29 | 9 | x | 121 |
| 20 | Maxence Muzaton |
15 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 36 | x | ⑱ | DNF | 20 | 16 | x | 105 |
| 21 | Lars Rösti |
13 | 22 | DNF | 32 | 0 | x | DNS | 15 | 15 | 2 | x | 99 |
| 22 |  Elian Lehto |
0 | 0 | 15 | 12 | 5 | x | ⑭ | 26 | 12 | 0 | x | 70 |
| 23 | Brodie Seger |
26 | 24 | DNS | 5 | 8 | x | ㉗ | 0 | 3 | 0 | x | 66 |
| 24 | Otmar Striedinger |
2 | 9 | 6 | 14 | 20 | x | DNS | DNF | 0 | 13 | x | 64 |
| 25 | Romed Baumann |
0 | 36 | 0 | DNF | 13 | x | ⑳ | 7 | 6 | 0 | x | 62 |
| 26 | Marco Kohler |
16 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 0 | x | DNS | 4 | 2 | 8 | NE | 59 |
| 27 | Nejc Naraločnik |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | x | ㉝ | 10 | 12 | 36 | NE | 58 |
| 28 | Adrien Théaux |
0 | 11 | DNS | 7 | 14 | x | ㉜ | 0 | 14 | 11 | NE | 57 |
| 29 | Martin Čater |
0 | 45 | 5 | 0 | DNF | x | ㉞ | 0 | 0 | 0 | NE | 50 |
| 30 |  Jan Zabystřan |
24 | 5 | DNF | 9 | 0 | x | ⑲ | 0 | 8 | 0 | NE | 46 |
| 31 | Cyprien Sarrazin |
29 | 14 | DNS | NE | 43 | |||||||
| 32 | Giovanni Franzoni |
4 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 18 | x | ㉑ | 0 | 1 | 5 | NE | 40 |
| 33 | Blaise Giezendanner |
36 | DNF | 3 | DNF | DNS | NE | 39 | |||||
| 34 | Christof Innerhofer |
0 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 7 | x | DNS | 5 | 9 | 0 | NE | 38 |
| 35 | Nils Alphand |
2 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 15 | x | ㉔ | DNS | NE | 35 | ||
| 36 | Sam Morse |
10 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | x | ㊱ | 1 | 7 | 0 | NE | 34 |
| 37 | Luis Vogt |
0 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 0 | x | DNF | 0 | 0 | 0 | NE | 28 |
| Jared Goldberg |
0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 6 | x | ㉔ | 6 | 0 | 1 | NE | 28 | |
| Fredrik Møller |
0 | 0 | 11 | DNF | DNS | x | ⑮ | 10 | 0 | 7 | NE | 28 | |
| 40 | Matthieu Bailet |
DNF | 0 | 10 | 11 | 3 | x | DNS | 3 | 0 | 0 | NE | 27 |
| 41 | Stefan Rieser |
0 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | x | DNS | 0 | 5 | NE | 22 | |
| 42 | Simon Jocher |
0 | 2 | 20 | DNS | x | ㉚ | DNS | NE | 22 | |||
| Livio Hiltbrand |
0 | 15 | 0 | DNS | 0 | x | DNS | 8 | 0 | 0 | NE | 22 | |
| Nicolo Molteni |
DNS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | x | DNS | 0 | 4 | 18 | NE | 22 | |
| 45 |  Felix Monsén |
0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 9 | x | ⑯ | 0 | 0 | 0 | NE | 20 |
| 46 | Benjamin Jacques Alliod |
0 | 0 | DNF | 3 | 0 | x | DNS | 0 | 0 | 15 | NE | 18 |
| 47 | Felix Hacker |
0 | 2 | 8 | DNS | NE | 10 | ||||||
| Christopher Neumayer |
DNS | 0 | 0 | 10 | x | DNS | NE | 10 | |||||
| Wiley Maple |
0 | 0 | DNF | 0 | 0 | x | DNS | 0 | 10 | 0 | NE | 10 | |
| Andreas Ploier |
DNS | 0 | DNS | 0 | DNF | x | DNS | 10 | NE | 10 | |||
| 51 | Erik Arvidsson |
0 | 8 | DNS | NE | 8 | |||||||
 Henrik Von Appen |
DNS | 0 | DNS | 8 | DNF | x | ㉛ | DNF | 0 | 0 | NE | 8 | |
| Vincent Wieser |
0 | 0 | 7 | DNS | 1 | x | DNS | 0 | 0 | NE | 8 | ||
| 54 | Josua Mettler |
0 | 7 | DNS | NE | 7 | |||||||
| 55 | Raphael Haaser |
6 | DNS | 0 | 0 | 0 | NE | 6 | |||||
| Kyle Negomir |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | x | DNS | 0 | 0 | 6 | NE | 6 | |
| 57 | Manuel Traninger |
0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | x | DNS | 0 | 0 | NE | 5 | |
| 58 |  Marco Pfiffner |
0 | 4 | DNS | 0 | 0 | x | ㉖ | 0 | 0 | 0 | NE | 4 |
| 59 | Jeffrey Read |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | x | ㉙ | DNF | 0 | 3 | NE | 3 |
| References | [15] | [16] | [17] | [18] | [19] | [10] | [20] | [21] | [22] | [23] | [24] | ||
Legend
edit- 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 (World Championships)
- R# = Rescheduled (make-up) race
- Updated at 22 March 2025, after all events.[25]
See also
editReferences
edit- 1 2 Associated Press (22 March 2025). "Downhill ski titles clinched as wind cancels World Cup finals". ESPN. Retrieved 22 March 2025.
- ↑ Schwager-Patel, Nischal (23 October 2024). "Aleksander Aamodt Kilde to miss 2024/25 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup season after new surgery". Olympics.com. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
- ↑ "FIS ALPINE WORLD SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS SAALBACH 2025". Retrieved 7 November 2024.
- 1 2 Staff (9 February 2025). "Von Allmen wins gold as Swiss dominate men's downhill". Reuters.com. Retrieved 9 February 2025.
- ↑ Associated Press (6 December 2024). "Murisier claims 1st World Cup win by beating Swiss teammate Odermatt in men's downhill". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
- ↑ Associated Press (21 December 2024). "Odermatt finally wins in Gardena as he dominates a World Cup downhill". AP News. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
- ↑ ESPN (28 December 2024). "Alexis Monney claims 1st World Cup win after rare Marco Odermatt mistake". MSN.com. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
- ↑ Associated Press (18 January 2025). "Odermatt beats fast-emerging Von Allmen in Switzerland's classic World Cup downhill". AP News. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
- ↑ Associated Press (25 January 2025). "Crawford wins and Alexander is 3rd in World Cup downhill as Canadian team impresses in Kitzbuehel". AP News. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
- 1 2 Associated Press (1 February 2025). "World Cup downhill in Garmisch canceled after fog prevents both training runs". AP News. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
- ↑ Baldwin, Alan (22 February 2025). "World champion Von Allmen leads Swiss home downhill sweep". Reuters. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
- ↑ Poggi, Alessandro (7 March 2025). "Dominik Paris rules Kvitfjell downhill for first win of the 2024/25 season". Olympics.com. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
- 1 2 Associated Press (8 March 2025). "Swiss sweep again. Von Allmen beats Odermatt in World Cup downhill and takes title race to the US". AP News. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
- ↑ "Sun Valley Resort Named Host of Audi FIS Ski World Cup Finals on FIS 2024-25 Alpine Calendar". 5 June 2024. Retrieved 8 November 2024.
- ↑ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Beaver Creek Men's DH (United States)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
- ↑ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Val Gardena/Gröden Men's DH (ITA)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
- ↑ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Bormio Men's DH (ITA)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
- ↑ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Wengen Men's DH (SUI)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
- ↑ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Kitzbühel Men's DH (AUT)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
- ↑ "FIS Alpine World Ski Championships Saalbach Men's DH (AUT)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 9 February 2025.
- ↑ "Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Crans Montana Men's DH (SUI)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
- ↑ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Kvitfjell Men's DH (NOR)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
- ↑ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Kvitfjell Men's DH (NOR)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
- ↑ "Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Sun Valley Men's DH (USA) -- CANCELLED" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 22 March 2025.
- ↑ "Men's Downhill 2024-2025". FIS. Retrieved 22 March 2025.