Secret Garden Freeski Big Air World Cup: Stats Preview

2025/26 FIS Freeski Big Air World Cup – Big Air Secret Garden Stat Sheet

● This season there are four World Cup big air events compared to six last season, with events in Secret Garden (CHN); Beijing (CHN); Steamboat (USA); and Tignes (FRA). The first three events serve as qualifiers for the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games.

● Secret Garden was added to the Freeski World Cup calendar in the 2017/18 season, having previously hosted five Freeski Halfpipe events to date. This will be the first time the resort has hosted big air.

● The Big Air World Cup circuit has included a stop in China three times to date; all three were in Beijing (2019/20, 2023/24, 2024/25). 

Big Air Secret Garden – Men

● Luca Harrington (NZL) topped the 2024/25 Big Air World Cup standings. Harrington is the current World Champion in this discipline. Matej Svancer (AUT) was second and Miro Tabanelli (ITA) third.

● Luca Harrington (NZL) claimed four Big Air podiums last season and was the only athlete to finish within the top five in all five Big Air events last season.

● Luca Harrington (NZL) and Matej Svancer (AUT) claimed two Big Air World Cup wins last season. Miro Tabanelli (ITA) and Tormod Frostad (NOR) had one each.

● Birk Ruud (NOR) is the most successful Big Air athlete in World Cup history. He has won the discipline Globe three times. No other athlete has more than one Big Air Globe.

● Birk Ruud (NOR) is the reigning 2022 Olympic champion in men’s Big Air.

● Four top-three finishes in the 2024/25 season allowed Matej Svancer (AUT) to equal third place with Alex Hall (USA) on the men's all-time list at six Big Air podiums each.

● Matej Svancer (AUT) also joined Alex Hall (USA) in second place for Big Air World Cup career wins: each has four. Birk Ruud (NOR) sits at the top of this list with six victories.

● Miro Tabanelli (ITA) finished third in the 2024/25 Big Air World Cup standings for the second season in a row. He recorded his first World Cup career win in Tignes (FRA) in March 2025.

Big Air Secret Garden – Women

● Mathilde Gremaud (SUI) leads the field with nine Big Air World Cup career victories. She won at home in Chur last season before missing the last two Big Air events due to injury.

● Mathilde Gremaud (SUI) has a total of 13 Big Air World Cup podium finishes. Trailing Gremaud in second place on the list of Big Air World Cup career podiums are Flora Tabanelli (ITA) and Tess Ledeux (FRA) with eight apiece. 

● Flora Tabanelli (ITA), current Big Air World Champion, won the 2024/25 Big Air Crystal Globe ahead of Tess Ledeux (FRA) and Anni Karava (FIN).

● Flora Tabanelli (ITA) also won the overall Park & Pipe Globe in just her second season on the World Cup circuit. At 17, she is the youngest freeskier in FIS history to win a Crystal Globe.

● Flora Tabanelli (ITA) stepped on the podium at every 2024/25 Big Air World Cup event. Over the course of her two World Cup seasons she has never fallen out of the top 10 in Big Air.

● Flora Tabanelli (ITA) was the only athlete to win two Big Air events last season. Other wins were claimed by Megan Oldham (CAN), Liu Mengting (CHN), Tess Ledeux (FRA) and Mathilde Gremaud (SUI).

● Tess Ledeux (FRA) finished second in the Big Air season standings despite contesting only four of the six events on the calendar. She finished within the top five in every event she contested.

● Both Tabanelli and Ledeux will miss the start of the 2025/26 season due to injury.

● Anni Karava (FIN) claimed her first World Cup podium finish in Kreischberg last season as runner-up. She also finished in the top three in the last two starts of the season.

● Team China has never recorded a top-five finish in a home Big Air World Cup event. Their best result was Liu Mengting’s sixth place in Beijing in December 2024.

● Eileen Gu (CHN) is the reigning Olympic champion in women’s Big Air but is not competing in Secret Garden.