Giaccio earns first Crystal Globe, Horishima sweeps men’s events as season wraps

For the first time in her career, Olivia Giaccio (USA) is the proud owner of a Crystal Globe. 

That came courtesy of a stellar 2025/26 season, during which she made the Moguls podium at every World Cup stop to amass 490 points, finishing top of the Overall Moguls Cup standings.

The American was 58 points ahead of two-time Olympic champion Jakara Anthony (AUS), who was second with 432 points. Tess Johnson (USA) also notched 432 points, but finished third behind Anthony in the Overall Moguls standings based on the number of World Cup wins this season. 

For Giaccio, such was the quality of her season that she came within a whisker of sweeping the season’s Crystal Globes. She was level on 360 points in the Moguls Cup tally alongside Anthony, but the Australian claimed the Moguls Crystal Globe courtesy of posting more wins across the season.

Johnson was also third in the Moguls standings, with 312 points. No Dual Moguls Crystal Globe were awarded, as there were only two contests held this season. 

Giaccio had one World Cup win this season, at the Nanto-Toyama stop, compared to Anthony’s three (Ruka, Val St. Come, Waterville). 

Still, a career-first Crystal Globe is a momentous result for Giaccio, even if it is hardly a surprise given her quality and consistency in recent years on the World Cup circuit. The 25-year-old had been knocking on the doors for a while, and came as close as third place in Moguls, Dual Moguls and Overall Moguls in the 2023/24 season. 

It is also notable that of the six top women’s Moguls skiers this season, four were from the US team, a testament to the quality of the best women’s Moguls skiing team in the world right now.

In the men’s field, there was also a first for Ikuma Horishima, even if he will not be new to the blue bib. 

The Japanese swept the Crystal Globes for the first time, topping both the Moguls and Overall Moguls standings.

In Moguls, he finished narrowly ahead of Matt Graham (AUS), posting 356 points for an 11-point advantage. In Overall Moguls, Horishima’s lead was greater, taking 536 points ahead of Graham’s 408.

Nick Page (USA) finished the season third in the Moguls standings, while Julien Viel (CAN) completed the podium in the Overall Moguls standings. 

For Page, the result equals his performance last season, when he was also third at the end of the season in Moguls. In Viel’s case, it is the best he has done on the World Cup circuit since his debut in the 2022/23 season. 

Other than a 15th-place finish in Moguls at the Val St. Come stop, Horishima was on the podium at every event this season, with two wins in Moguls and one in Dual Moguls. 

The sweep of Crystal Globes this time comes after his maiden one in Moguls at the end of the 2023/24 season, and caps a season that also includes a silver and a bronze medal from the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games. 

The results for this season’s Crystal Globes were finalised after the final stop of the Moguls World Cup in Shahdag, Azerbaijan, originally due for 14-15 March, was axed. It is slated to be staged in the 2026/27 season instead.