Silvaplana Freeski Slopestyle World Cup stat sheet

● Silvaplana is the final of five stops in the 2025/26 FIS Freeski Slopestyle World Cup season. The tour started in Stubai (AUT) in November, followed by Aspen (USA) and Laax (SUI) in January; and resumed after the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Tignes (FRA) last week. Men’s competition at the first event in Stubai (AUT) in November was cancelled due to weather conditions.

 ● Besides last season, when the Silvaplana resort hosted the Engadin 2025 Freeski World Championships, the Corvatsch ski area also hosted the Freeski Slopestyle World Cup season finale every winter from 2012/13 to 2023/24.

Silvaplana Freeski Slopestyle World Cup – Men

●  Birk Ruud (NOR) leads the 2025/26 Freeski Slopestyle World Cup standings after three events on 180 points. Sebastian Schjerve (NOR) is second with 145 points. Henry Sildaru (EST) is third on 140.

●  Birk Ruud (NOR) needs to finish first or second to guarantee himself the Freeski Slopestyle Crystal Globe. He already claimed the Freeski Slopestyle season trophy for 2022/23. Two other Globe winners are still in contest for this season’s trophy: Mac Forehand (USA; 2018/19, 2023/24), trails Rudd by 56 points; and  Andri Ragettli (SUI; 2015/16, 2017/18, 2019/20, 2021/22), trails the leader by 80 points.

●  Birk Ruud (NOR) is still in the contest for the overall men’s Park & Pipe Globe in fifth place on 238 points. His main opponents are Freeski Halfpipe specialists Finley Melville Ives (NZL) on 280 points, and Hunter Hess (USA) on 265 points. The Freeski Halfpipe World Cup season will hold its last event of the 2025/26 season this weekend.

●  Birk Ruud (NOR) is already the most successful Park & Pipe athlete with six Crystal Globe trophies: two overall Freeski Park and Pipe (2021/22 and 2022/23); three Freeski Big Air (2019/20, 2020/21 and 2022/23); and one Freeski Slopestyle (2022/23).

● Miro Tabanelli (ITA) won the previous Freeski Slopestyle World Cup in Tignes (FRA) last week, followed by Birk Ruud (NOR) in second and Henry Sildaru (EST) in third. 

● The win in Tignes was Miro Tabanelli’s first Slopestyle World Cup victory and his first Freeski Slopestyle podium finish. Tabanelli has one Freeski Big Air World Cup victory from the 2024/25 season, also in Tignes, and a total of three podiums in this discipline.  Tabanelli is the only Italian male athlete to have claimed a Freeski Park & Pipe podium to date.

● Italy became the ninth nation to claim a win in the men’s Freeski Slopestyle World Cup events. The previous nation to claim its first win was Austria with a victory by Matej Svancer (AUT) in Stoneham (CAN) in 2024/25. USA has the most Freeski Slopestyle World Cup wins by a male skier with 21.

● Birk Ruud’s second place in Tignes was his 14th Slopestyle World Cup podium finish, which puts him in second place for men’s Freeski Slopestyle World Cup podiums. Andri Ragettli (SUI) leads this list with 24 top-three results.

● Birk Ruud (NOR) needs one more Freeski Slopestyle World Cup win to join Andri Ragettli (SUI) in first place for the most men’s Freeski Slopestyle World Cup victories with 11.

● Andri Ragettli (SUI) is the most successful Freeski Slopestyle athlete in FIS World Cup history with four Crystal Globe trophies. In January at Aspen (USA), Ragettli failed to finish inside the top 10 for the first time since Seiser Alm (ITA) in January 2020. Ragettli claimed seven wins and a total of 14 podiums during that streak. Ragettli’s last podium came in Tignes in 2025 when he finished second.

● Henry Sildaru (EST) claimed his second Freeski Park & Pipe World Cup podium of his career in Tignes. His maiden podium, also in Freeski Slopestyle, came earlier this season, at Aspen’s Snowmass resort.

● Henry Sildaru (EST) is the only male athlete to have claimed a FIS Freeski Park & Pipe World Cup podium finish for Estonia. Estonia now has a total of 15 podiums across men’s and women’s competition, with all 13 other podiums belonging to Henry’s older sister Kelly Sildaru (six in Freeski Slopestyle, six in Freeski Halfpipe, and one in Freeski Big Air).

● Sebastian Schjerve (NOR) has finished inside the top five of every Freeski Slopestyle World Cup event he has contested this season without claiming a podium. Schjerve is yet to record a World Cup win, and his best result to date is second place in Freeski Slopestyle at Mammoth Mountain during the 2022/23 season.

● Norwegian athletes have stepped on the podium at the past four consecutive Freeski Slopestyle World Cup events. If Norway manages a podium finish in Silvaplana, the nation will record a perfect season. No nation has claimed a podium in every event of the season since 2022/23. It was also Birk Ruud who gave Norway this honor after he recorded five top-three finishes.

● Victor Knutsen’s (SWE) tenth place in Tignes was his first top-10 World Cup result, which was also his fifth World Cup start.

● Evan McEachran (CAN) and Alex Hall (USA) need another top-10 finish to join Jesper Tjader (SWE) in the second place on the list of Freeski Slopestyle World Cup top-10 finishes with 24. Andri Ragettli (SUI) leads the list with 40 career top-10 results.

● Andri Ragettli (SUI) has recorded the most victories in Silvaplana: three. He won here in 2015/16, 2018/19 and most recently during the 2023/24 season. Jesper Tjader (SWE) has won twice in Silvaplana.
● Ulrik Samnoey (NOR) will make his 50th FIS Freeski Park & Pipe World Cup start in Silvaplana. Samnoey has recorded a total of three podium finishes (two Freeski Big Air and one Freeski Slopestyle) to date, including victory at the Freeski Big Air World Cup in Beijing (CHN) in December.

Silvaplana Freeski Slopestyle World Cup – Women

● Kirsty Muir (GBR) won the previous Freeski Slopestyle World Cup in Tignes (FRA), followed by Elena Gaskell (CAN) in second and Lara Wolf (AUT) in third. 

● Kirsty Muir (GBR) took the lead in the Freeski Slopestyle World Cup standings after four events on 200 points. Elena Gaskell (CAN) in second on 185, while Marin Hamill (USA) is third on 172 points. 

● Kirsty Muir (GBR) needs to win in Silvaplana to guarantee herself her first career Freeski Slopestyle Crystal Globe. This could also be the first women’s Freeski Slopestyle Globe for Great Britain.

● Only one of the athletes competing in Silvaplana this week has previously won the Freeski Slopestyle Crystal Globe: Megan Oldham (CAN), who claimed the 2018/19 trophy in her very first season on the FIS World Cup circuit. Mathilde Gremaud (SUI) and Eileen Gu (CHN) have previously won the Freeski Slopestyle Globe but are not competing in Silvaplana.

● Elena Gaskell (CAN) could claim this season’s Freeski Slopestyle Crystal Globe if she scores 16 points more than Kirsty Muir (GBR) and none of the other contenders score more than 13 points than Gaskell. The Canadian won the Freeski Big Air Crystal Globe in 2028/19.

● Kirsty Muir (GBR) currently leads the overall Park & Pipe World Cup standings on 419 points. Naomi Urness (CAN), the 2025/26 Freeski Big Air Crystal Globe winner, is in second on 392 points. Indra Brown (AUS), the Freeski Halfpipe standings leader, is third on 358 points. Brown will compete in both in Freeski Slopestyle and in Freeski Halfpipe in Silvaplana.

● Last week’s victory in Tignes was Kirsty Muir’s third Freeski Slopestyle World Cup win. Another podium finish will allow Muir to join compatriot James Woods in first place on the list of British athletes with the most Freeski Slopestyle World Cup wins. 

● After her victory in Tignes, Kirsty Muir (GBR) moved into first place on the list of British women with Freeski Slopestyle World Cup podiums. Muir now has five podium finishes, one more than Isabel Atkin, the older sister of reigning Freeski Halfpipe World Champion Zoe Atkin.

● Elena Gaskell claimed her third Freeski Slopestyle World Cup podium in Tignes last week. Another podium finish will allow her to move into equal third place on the list of Canadian women with Freeski Slopestyle World Cup podiums. Megan Oldham leads the list with nine top-3 finishes.

● Lara Wolf (AUT) claimed her second consecutive Freeski Slopestyle World Cup podium in Tignes. She has a total of four FIS Freeski Park & Pipe podiums (three in Freeski Slopestyle, one in Freeski Big Air), with all of them third-place finishes. Wolf is the only Austrian woman to feature on a FIS Freeski Park & Pipe World Cup podium.

● Lara Wolf moved into first place on the list of Austrian athletes with Freeski Slopestyle World Cup podiums, both men and women. Wolf’s three podium finishes put her one spot ahead of Matej Svancer’s (AUT) two podiums.

● Tess Ledeux (FRA) has the best World Cup record in Silvaplana with four wins: in 2017/18, 2020/21, 2022/23 and the 2023/24 edition where she finished ahead of Mathilde Gremaud (SUI) and third-placed Jay Riccomini (USA). Ledeux missed the 2025/26 season due to injury. 

● Anni Karava (FIN) will make her 50th FIS Freeski Park & Pipe World Cup start in Silvaplana. To date, Karava has recorded a total of six podium finishes (five Freeski Big Air and one Freeski Slopestyle), including her maiden victory at the Beijing Big Air World Cup in December.