Copper Mountain Freeski Halfpipe World Cup: Stats Preview

Copper Mountain Halfpipe World Cup Stat Sheet

● This season there are five Freeski Halfpipe World Cup events: Secret Garden (CHN); Copper Mountain (USA); Calgary (CAN), Aspen (USA); and Silvaplana (SUI). Aspen will be the last chance for Freeski Halfpipe athletes to qualify for the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games.

● Copper Mountain has been on the Freeski World Cup circuit since the 2011/12 season, having previously hosted 12 Freeski Halfpipe events.

Copper Halfpipe World Cup – Men

● Finley Melville Ives (NZL) won the first 2025/26 Halfpipe World Cup event in Secret Garden ahead of Luke Harrold (NZL) in second and Hunter Hess (USA) in third.

● Finley Melville Ives (NZL) won his second consecutive Halfpipe World Cup event after claiming his maiden World Cup victory and first podium finish at the Calgary 2024/25 season finale. Ives is also the reigning Halfpipe World Champion (Engadin 2025 FIS Freeski World Championships).

● Finley Melville Ives (NZL) has finished inside the top 10 at eight consecutive Halfpipe World Cup events. It is the longest running streak in the field.

● Luke Harrold (NZL) claimed his second Halfpipe World Cup podium in Secret Garden last week, repeating his career best result from Secret Garden in December 2023.  

● Luke Harrold (NZL) is the youngest New Zealander to reach a World Cup podium, which he did in December 2023 at the age of 15.  

● Finley Melville Ives (NZL) and Luke Harrold (NZL) recorded New Zealand’s first one-two podium finish in Freeski World Cup history across all disciplines, men or women.

● Hunter Hess (USA) claimed his fifth career podium in Secret Garden last week with third place. Hess has never won a Halfpipe World Cup.

● Hunter Hess (USA) has finished outside the top 10 only once in 11 events since the start of the 2023/24 Halfpipe World Cup season, claiming two runner-up spots and three third-place finishes.

● A U.S. skier has finished on the podium in 13 consecutive Halfpipe World Cup starts since Calgary in January 2023 when Jon Sallinen (FIN) was first ahead of Brendan Mackay (CAN) in second and Simon d'Artois (CAN) in third. Team USA claimed 10 victories during this streak.

● Alex Ferreira (USA) won last year’s Copper event ahead of Brendan Mackay (CAN) in second and Nick Goepper (USA) in third place.

● Alex Ferreira (USA) is the two-time reigning Crystal Globe winner in Freeski Halfpipe. IN 2023/24 Ferreira become the first man to sweep the World Cup season series, taking five victories in five events.

● Alex Ferreira (USA) has won the four most recent Halfpipe World Cup events hosted in the USA: Copper in 2023/24 and 2024/25; Mammoth Mountain in 2023/24; and Aspen in 2024/25.

● U.S. athletes have won nine out of 11 Copper Halfpipe World Cup events. Alex Ferreira and Aaron Blunck have three victories each, David Wise  has two.

● The only non-U.S. skiers to win in Copper were Mike Riddle (CAN) in 2012/13 and Kevin Rolland (FRA) in 2016/17.

● Nick Goepper (USA) finished on the podium in three of the most recent Halfpipe World Cup events hosted in the USA: he was third in 2023/24 at Mammoth Mountain and in Copper in 2024/25, and second in Aspen in 2024/25.

Copper Halfpipe World Cup – Women

● Eileen Gu (CHN) won the first 2025/26 Halfpipe World Cup event in Secret Garden ahead of Zoe Atkin (GBR) in second and Indra Brown (AUS) in third.

● Eileen Gu (CHN), the reigning Olympic champion, is the most successful Halfpipe World Cup athlete. She has recorded 15 wins, 17 podiums and 18 top-10 results from the 18 World Cup events she has contested. Gu has two Halfpipe Crystal Globes.

● Eileen Gu (CHN) has won the last six consecutive Halfpipe World Cup events she has contested.

● Eileen Gu’s (CHN) win in Secret Garden allowed her to take the lead for most overall Freeski Park & Pipe World Cup victories with 19. Gu has 15 wins in Halfpipe and three in Slopestyle. Tess Ledeux (FRA, 17) has recorded 13 wins in Slopestyle and four wins in Big Air. 

● Eileen Gu’s (CHN) top-three finish in Secret Gardens puts her atop the all-time list for the most Halfpipe World Cup podiums with 17. Rachel Karker (CAN) has one less.

● Eileen Gu (CHN) won last year’s Copper event ahead of Zoe Atkin (GBR) in second and Cassie Sharpe (CAN) in third.

● Eileen Gu’s (CHN) has been the most successful women’s skier in Copper, winning here three times to date: 2021/22, 2023/24, 2024/25. Brita Sigourney (USA) and Marie Martinod (FRA) have two wins each.

● Zoe Atkin (GBR) is the current Halfpipe World Champion and last season’s joint Crystal Globe winner. Secret Garden was Atkin’s 11th Halfpipe World Cup podium; she needs one more to join Virginie Faivre (SUI) and Brita Sigourney (USA) in fifth place on the all-time list of most World Cup podiums.

● Zoe Atkin (GBR) finished within the top 10 in 19 of her 20 Halfpipe World Cup starts. Her worst result was 14th place in her first World Cup debut in Copper during the 2018/19 season.

● Zoe Atkin (GBR) shared her 2024/25 Halfpipe Crystal Globe with Li Fanghui, as both athletes finished the World Cup season with a victory, two second place finishes, and  fifth place result. The best four Halfpipe World Cup results of an athlete’s season count towards their end-of-season ranking. It was the first time in FIS Freeski history that two athletes ended up in an unbreakable tie for the Crystal Globe.

● Indra Brown (AUS) claimed a podium spot in Secret Garden in her first-ever Halfpipe World Cup start. At 15 years of age, Brown became the youngest Australian ever to secure a World Cup podium finish.

● Indra Brown’s Secret Garden result is the fifth Halfpipe World Cup podium finish for Australia, men or women. Two of the four previous podiums belong to Davina Williams (second in Apex in February 2007 and torrid in Inawashiro in February 2008) and Amy Sheehan (two third-place finishes in Calgary and Breckenridge in 2013/14).

● Amy Fraser (CAN) finished fourth in Secret Garden. This is her 18th consecutive Halfpipe World Cup top-10 finish since Calgary in December 2021, which is also the longest running streak for top-10 results.

● Team USA have not recorded a win in the nine most recent Copper Halfpipe World Cup events. The last U.S. skier to win here was Brita Sigourney in December 2013.

● Brita Sigourney is also the last U.S. athlete to record a Halfpipe World Cup win on home snow,  at Mammoth Mountain in 2017/18.