By-the-numbers: Looking back at the 2025/26 FIS Freeski World Cup season

From one perspective, the FIS Park & Pipe World Cup season seems to go by in a flash; we start in late November or early December and end in late March, hitting a handful of sublime venues around the world for what is usually two or three days of competition with the top athletes landing on the podium. Then it’s pack the ski bags, load the vans, dash to the airport, and on to the next one until there’s no more ‘next one’ on the calendar and the Crystal Globes are in the worthy winners’ hands.

But when you start to break it down a little bit, you find that there's a whole lot more going on behind the action that makes it to the screens of Slopestyle, Big Air, and Halfpipe fans around the world, and here in our “By-the-numbers” recap of the 2025/26 World Cup we’ll try to give you an idea of the bigger picture behind what was a huge and hugely successful season of action on the FIS Park & Pipe World Cup tour.

FIS Freeski World Cup By-The-Numbers 2025/26

COMPETITIONS

Total competitions: 27 (women - 14, men - 13) 

Competitions Slopestyle: 9 (women - 5; men - 4)

Competitions Big Air: 8 (women - 4; men - 4)

Competitions Halfpipe: 10 (women - 5; men - 5)

Total competition runs: ~3200 

Total competition runs Slopestyle: ~1035

Total competition runs Big Air: ~1225

Total competition runs Halfpipe: ~950

COMPETITORS

Total competitors: 236

Nations represented: 30

Most skiers per nation: 53 - USA

Fewest riders per nation: 1 - SVK, THA, CHI, CRO, BRA, ARG, CZE, VAN, LTU

SCORES

Highest score Slopestyle women: 85.13 - Eileen Gu (CHN) - Laax Open

Highest score Slopestyle men: 85.08 - Birk Ruud (NOR) - Laax Open

Highest score Big Air women: 175.50 - Anni Karava (FIN) - Beijing Big Air

Highest score Big Air men: 186.50 - Tormod Frostad (NOR) - Tignes Mountain Shaker

Highest score Halfpipe women: 93.00 - Li Fanghui (CHN) - Aspen U.S. Grand Prix

Highest score Halfpipe men: 95.00 - Finley Melville Ives (NZL) - Aspen U.S. Grand Prix

HUSTLE AWARDS

Women’s Hustle Award (most competition appearances): Indra Brown (AUS)

Total competitions: 12 (8 - World Cup; 3 - Junior World Championships; 1 - Olympic Winter Games)

Total competition runs (qualifications + finals): 49 (30 - World Cup; 14 - Junior World Championships; 5 Olympic Winter Games)

Best results: 1st - Calgary Snow Rodeo Halfpipe World Cup; Gold - Calgary 2025 FIS Park & Pipe Junior World Championships Halfpipe

Men’s Hustle Award (most competition appearances): Henry Sildaru (EST)

Total competition starts: 13 (9 - World Cup; 3 - Olympic Winter Games; 1 - FIS level)

Total competition runs (qualifications + finals): 41 (28 - World Cup; 9 - Olympic Winter Games; 4 - FIS)

Best result: Bronze - OWG Halfpipe; 2nd - Silvaplana Slopestyle World Cup/2nd Silvaplana Halfpipe World Cup