Steamboat Freeski Big Air World Cup: Statistics Preview

2025/26 FIS Freeski Park & Pipe World Cup – Steamboat Big Air World Cup Stat Sheet

● This season there are four Big Air World Cup events: Secret Garden (CHN); Beijing (CHN); Steamboat (USA); and Tignes (FRA). 

● Steamboat has hosted the Big Air World Cup competition once previously, in the 2021/22 season.

● The Big Air World Cup circuit has included a stop in the United States of America six times to date; twice in Copper Mountain (2022/23, 2023/24), once in Boston (2025/16),once in Atlanta (2019/20), once in Steamboat (2021/22), and once in Aspen (2024/25).

Steamboat Big Air World Cup – Men

● Luca Harrington (NZL) leads the 2024/25 Big Air World Cup standings after two events with 140 points. Ulrik Samnoey (NOR) is second with 118 and Dylan Deschamps (CAN) third with 116. 

● Ulrik Samnoey (NOR) won the most recent Big Air World Cup event in Beijing ahead of Luca Harrington (NZL) and Matej Svancer (AUT).

● The win in Beijing was Ulrik Samnoey’s (NOR) first World Cup victory. His previous best result was 3rd place in Destne (CZE) in February 2020. Samnoey was the 2019 Junior World Champion in Klaepen (SWE).

● Luca Harrington (NZL), the current Big Air World Champion, claimed his sixth consecutive Big Air podium in Beijing. This streak is longer than any other nation’s run of consecutive podiums. Before Harrington, the longest streak of five podium finishes was recorded by Switzerland between 2015/16 and 2016/17 with contributions from Kai Mahler, Luca Schuler, Fabian Boesch, Jonas Hunziker and Andri Ragettli.

● A third-place finish in Beijing allowed Matej Svancer (AUT) to move into third place on the men's all-time list of World Cup podium finishes with seven Big Air podiums. Birk Ruud (NOR) leads the field with 12 podiums, Andri Ragettli (SUI) is second with nine.

● Matej Svancer (AUT) needs two more top-10 results to join Elias Syrja (FIN) in third place for the most Big Air World Cup top-10 finishes. Birk Ruud (NOR) and Andri Ragettli (SUI) are equal first with 21 top-10 finishes each.

● Matej Svancer (AUT) won the previous Steamboat Big Air World Cup event in 2021/22, ahead of Alex Hall (USA) and Antoine Adelisse (FRA).

● USA (Alex Hall, 2019/20 and Mac Forehand, 2023/24) and Austria (Matej Svancer, 2021/22; 2024/25) have two wins each in the Big Air World Cup events on U.S. slopes. Canada (Vincent Gagnier, 2015/16) and Norway (Birk Ruud, 2022/23) have recorded one win apiece.

Steamboat Big Air World Cup – Women

● Anni Karava (FIN) won the second 2025/26 Big Air World Cup event in Beijing (CHN). Liu Mengting (CHN) was second, Naomi Urness (CAN) was third.

● Anni Karava (FIN) and Kirsty Muir (GBR) lead the 2025/26 Big Air World Cup season standings with 150 points each. Liu Mengting (CHN) and Naomi Urness (CAN) share the third place with 140 points both.

● After two Big Air World Cup events and one Slopestyle World Cup, Anni Karava (FIN) leads the women’s overall Freeski Park & Pipe standings on 210 points, ahead of Naomi Urness (CAN) on 160 and Liu Mengting (CHN) on 158.

● Beijing is Anni Karava’s (FIN) first World Cup victory in any discipline. She claimed her maiden World Cup podium last season in Kreischberg (AUT) in January 2025.

● Anni Karava (FIN) is the first Finnish woman to claim a win on the  Freeski World Cup Park & Pipe circuit. Before Beijing, no Finnish athlete, male or female, had recorded a Big Air, Slopestyle, or Halfpipe World Cup victory.

● Anni Karava (FIN), Liu Mengting (CHN), Naomi Urness (CAN) and Kirsty Muir (GBR) claimed the top four spots in Beijing. They also took the first four spots in the 2025/26 Big Air World Cup season opener in Secret Garden, but in the opposite order. Muir was first ahead of Urness in second, Liu in third and Karava in fourth in Secret Garden.

● Liu Mengting (CHN) achieved Team China’s best finish in a home Big Air World Cup event for the second consecutive World Cup. In Secret Garden she was third, in Beijing she was runner-up. Previously, China’s best result was Liu’s sixth place in Beijing in December 2024.

● Naomi Urness (CAN) has claimed a podium finish in both of the Big Air World Cup events she has contested in her World Cup career. Urness is only the fourth Canadian woman to claim more than one Big Air World Cup podium after Elena Gaskell (3), Megan Oldham (2) and Dara Howell (2).

● Eileen Gu (CHN) won the previous Steamboat Big Air World Cup event in 2021/22, ahead of Tess Ledeux (FRA) and Johanne Killi (NOR).

● Team USA has never recorded a podium finish in a Big Air World Cup event on home soil. Their best result was Maggie Voisin’s sixth place in Boston in February 2016.

● Megan Oldham (CAN) is the only athlete to twice win a Big Air World Cup event in the USA: first in 2022/23 in Copper Mountain, followed by 2024/25 in Aspen.