Stubai Zoo Slopestyle World Cup: 30 days to go
Oct 22, 2025·Freeski Park & Pipe
Temperatures are dropping, snow is falling in the higher elevations, and we are now just one month away from the start of a huge 2025/26 FIS Park & Pipe World Cup campaign, with the first event of the season in Stubai (AUT) going down from 21-22 November
The first of five FIS Freeski Slopestyle World Cup competitions set to take place in 2025/26, the Stubai event has served as the slopestyle season-opener in the Northern Hemisphere for seven of the last eight World Cup seasons, with the vaunted Stubai Zoo snowpark consistently delivering an elite glacier playground for the world’s finest to strut their early-season stuff.
The list of Stubai podium skiers from World Cups past features a laundry list of the best to ever do it.
Tess Ledeux (FRA) and Kelly Sildaru (EST) lead the way on the women’s side with two victories and a runner-up finish apiece at the Zoo, while Olympic gold medallists Mathilde Gremaud and Sarah Hoefflin of Switzerland both have three podiums at the venue.
Stubai also factors into the career stats line of the great Eileen Gu (CHN) as well - of Gu’s 24 career World Cup podiums, only one of those is a third place finish, and that third place came at Stubai back in the 2020/21 season.
For the men the list of heavy-hitters on the Stubai podium list is no less impressive, with 2018 Olympic slopestyle gold medallist Oystain Braaten (NOR) claiming the first ever Stubai slopestyle World Cup win in 2017/18, Birk Ruud (NOR) taking back-to-back Stubai wins in 2021/22 and 2022/23, and Colby Stevenson (USA) showing his longevity in the freeski game last season, taking the victory seven years after he took third place behind Braaten and Evan McEachran (CAN) at the first edition of the competition.
This season’s Stubai event gets the ball rolling on a 2025/26 season that will see five FIS Freeski Slopestyle World Cup competitions, with the Aspen U.S. Grand Prix following Stubai from 07-09 January 2026, the Laax Open (SUI) going down from 15-17 January, the Tignes Mountain Shaker (FRA) coming up after the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics from 17-19 March, and finally the Silvaplana Slopestyle World Cup closing out the winter from 25-28 March.
The stage is set and the stakes are higher than ever - and it’s all set to kick off in a big way at the Stubai Zoo Slopestyle World Cup in just one month’s time!
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