Laax Open Freeski Slopestyle World Cup: Stats Preview

Laax Open Freeski Slopestyle World Cup stat sheet

● Laax Open is the third of five events in the 2025/26 FIS Freeski Slopestyle World Cup season.  The tour started in Stubai (AUT) in November, followed by Aspen (USA) in January; and after Laax (SUI) will resume in March in Tignes (FRA) and Silvaplana (SUI). Laax is the last chance for Freeski Slopestyle athletes to qualify for the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games.

 ● Laax was added to the Freeski Slopestyle World Cup circuit in the 2022/23 season and has to date hosted three Freeski Slopestyle World Cup events. 

Laax Freeski Slopestyle World Cup – Men

●  Men’s competition at the first event in Stubai (AUT) in November was cancelled due to weather conditions.

● Mac Forehand (USA) won the following event in Aspen, followed by Henry Sildaru (EST) in second and Ulrik Samnoey (NOR) in third. 

● Mac Forehand (USA) claimed his third Freeski Slopestyle World Cup victory in Aspen, which moved him to sixth place on the all-time list of World Cup victories. Andri Ragettli (SUI) has the most Freeski Slopestyle World Cup wins with 11. Alex Hall (USA) has the most wins among U.S. athletes with six.

● Mac Forehand’s (USA) ninth Freeski Slopestyle World Cup podium in Aspen allowed him to move into fifth place on the all-time list of Freeski Slopestyle World Cup podiums. Andri Ragettli (SUI) has the most Freeski Slopestyle World Cup podiums with 24. Colby Stevenson (USA) has the most podiums among U.S. athletes with 12.

● Henry Sildaru (EST) claimed his maiden Freeski Park & Pipe World Cup podium in Aspen. His previous best result was fourth place in Tignes during the 2024/25 season.

● Henry Sildaru’s (EST) podium finish in Aspen was also the first FIS Freeski Park & Pipe World Cup men’s podium finish for Estonia. Estonia now has a total of 14 podiums across men’s and women’s competition, with all 13 other podiums belonging to Henry’s older sister Kelly Sildaru (six in Slopestyle, six in Halfpipe, and one in Big Air).

● Ulrik Samnoey (NOR) claimed his first Freeski Slopestyle World Cup podium by finishing third in Aspen in his 26th start. Samnoey now has a total of four Freeski Park & Pipe World Cup podiums, including his maiden World Cup victory in Beijing in Big Air in December 2025.

● Luca Harrington (NZL) finished inside the top 10 for the fourth consecutive Freeski Slopestyle World Cup event in Aspen. It is the longest running streak of top-10 finishes in the field.

● Henry Townshend’s (USA) seventh place in Aspen was his first career top-10 World Cup result, which was also his fourth World Cup start.

● Andri Ragettli (SUI) is the most successful Freeski Slopestyle athlete in FIS World Cup history with four Crystal Globes in the discipline. In Aspen Ragettli failed to finish inside the top 10 for the first time since Seiseralm (ITA) in January 2020. Ragettli claimed seven wins and a total of 14 podiums during this streak.

● Alex Hall (USA) has 23 Freeski Slopestyle World Cup top-10 finishes and is third on the all-time list of most top-10 results behind Jesper Tjader (NOR) in second place. Andri Ragettli (SUI) leads the list with 38 top-10 finishes.

● Birk Ruud (NOR) won the previous two Laax Freeski Slopestyle World Cup events in 2024/25 and 2023/24, both times ahead of Mac Forehand (USA) in second. Andri Ragettli (SUI) won the inaugural Laax Freeski Slopestyle World Cup in 2023.

● Birk Ruud (NOR) is second on the list for most Freeski Slopestyle World Cup wins with nine. Ruud will make his first start of the 2025/26 Freeski Slopestyle season in Laax. He needs two more victories to equal Andri Ragettli (SUI) record of 11 victories.

● Matej Svancer (AUT) will make his first start of the 2025/26 Slopestyle season in Laax. Svancer claimed his first career Freeski Slopestyle World Cup victory at his most recent Freeski Slopestyle World Cup in Stoneham (CAN) in February 2025.

● Andri Ragettli (SUI) is the only Swiss athlete to have won a Freeski Park & Pipe World Cup event at home. The last time he did it was in Silvaplana in March 2024.

Laax Freeski Slopestyle World Cup – Women

● Kirsty Muir (GBR) won the second Freeski Slopestyle event of the 2025/26 season in Aspen (USA), followed by Megan Oldham (CAN) in second and Elena Gaskell (CAN) in third.

● Megan Oldham (CAN) leads the Freeski Slopestyle World Cup rankings after two events on 130 points. Olivia Asselin (CAN) is second with 116. Mathilde Gremaud (SUI) and Kirsty Muir (GBR) share third place with 100 points apiece.

● With her Aspen win, Kirsty Muir (GBR) has become the first British woman to claim more than one Freeski Slopestyle World Cup win. She also won the 2024/25 Freeski Slopestyle season finale in Tignes (FRA).

● Kirsty Muir (GBR) has amassed three Freeski Park & Pipe wins (two in Slopestyle and one in Big Air). This puts her in equal first place for most wins by British women alongside Zoe Atkin who has three Freeski Halfpipe World Cup victories.

● Another podium finish will allow Kirsty Muir (GBR) to move into first place on the list of British women with the most Slopestyle World Cup podiums. Muir currently has four podium finishes, on par with Isabel Atkin, the older sister of Zoe Atkin.

● Megan Oldham (CAN) claimed her ninth Freeski Slopestyle World Cup podium in Aspen. Oldham is now fifth on the women’s all-time list of most Freeski Slopestyle World Cup podium finishes. Tess Ledeux (FRA) leads this list with 17 podiums.

● Megan Oldham (CAN) is the only athlete to finish inside the top-five at the two previous Freeski Slopestyle World Cup events of the current season. Olivia Asselin (CAN; 2, 7), Anni Karava (FIN; 3, 8) and Grace Hendersom (USA; 6, 9) recorded top-10 results in both events.

● Elena Gaskell (CAN) repeated her previous career best Freeski Slopestyle World Cup result by finishing third in Aspen. Gaskell now has a total of five Freeski Park & Pipe World Cup podiums, including one win in Cardrona (NZL) in Big Air in September 2018.

● At last week’s Aspen World Cup, two Canadian athletes finished on the podium for the first time in the history of FIS Freeski Slopestyle. 

● Maria Gasslitter (ITA) and Avery Krumme (USA) finished fifth and sixth in Aspen respectively. This was the first Freeski Slopestyle World Cup top-10 result for both of them, and each skier achieved this in their second Freeski Slopestyle World Cup start.

● Eileen Gu (CHN) topped the previous field in Laax in 2025 ahead of Megan Oldham (CAN) in second and Mathilde Gremaud (SUI) in third.

● Eileen Gu (CHN) has three wins and a total of seven podiums from 10 Freeski Slopestyle World Cup starts. If she wins in Laax in 2026, she will move to sixth place on the all-time list for most Freeski Slopestyle wins. Tess Ledeux (FRA) leads the list with 13 victories.

● Swiss athletes have stepped on the podium of every Laax Freeski Slopestyle World Cup event to date. Mathilde Gremaud was third in 2024/25 and won in 2023/24. Sarah Hoefflin was second in 2022/23. 

● If Mathilde Gremaud (SUI) claims a podium finish in Laax this week it will be her 16th top-three result; she will join Johanne Killi (NOR) in second place on the all-time list of women’s Freeski Slopestyle World Cup podiums. Tess Ledeux (FRA) leads this list with 17 podium finishes.

● Mathilde Gremaud (SUI) has finished on a podium at the past eight Freeski Slopestyle World Cup events she has contested. Gremaud recorded four wins, three runner-up finishes and one third-place finish during that streak.

● Tess Ledeux (FRA), the most successful Freeski Slopestyle athlete with 13 World Cup wins and two discipline Crystal Globes, is not competing in Laax as she recovers from injury.