Nanto-Toyama 2025/26 Freestyle World Cup: Stats Preview

This will be the first time freestyle skiing FIS World Cup events will be staged in Nanto-Toyama (JPN).

The last time a Moguls World Cup competition was held on Japanese snow was in February 2020, when a Moguls event was staged in Tazawako. Back then, Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN) triumphed on the men’s side, Perrine Laffont (FRA) on the women’s.

The last time a Dual Moguls World Cup as contested in Japan dates back to February 2019 in Tazawako. Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN) won the men’s event, while Perrine Laffont (FRA) triumphed in the women’s event.

The 13 women’s Dual Moguls World Cup events held in Japan had 13 different winners. Jaelin Kauf (USA), Tess Johnson (USA) and Perrine Laffont (FRA) can all become the first to win multiple Dual Moguls World Cup events in Japan.

Cooper Woods (AUS) was the surprise winner of the Olympic Moguls competition at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, earning the same score as Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN), but recording a higher score on turns to break the tie. It marked the first senior international Moguls victory of Woods’ career. Woods will not compete in Nanto-Toyama (JPN). Kingsbury also will not start in Nanto-Toyama this weekend.

Ikuma Horishima (JPN) took a second career Olympic bronze medal in Moguls at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games. He was the only skier representing Japan to earn medals in freestyle skiing at the Olympic Winter Games in 2026, also claiming silver in Dual Moguls.

Ikuma Horishima (JPN) has 17 Moguls World Cup wins to his name and is one triumph away from entering the all-time top three in Moguls World Cup victories. The top three consists of Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN, 63), Edgar Grospiron (FRA, 28), Jean-Luc Brassard (CAN, 18) and Janne Lahtela (FIN, 18).

Ikuma Horishima (JPN) has recorded one victory in seven Moguls World Cup starts on Japanese snow: a triumph in Tazawako (JPN) in March 2018. It marks his only podium finish in a World Cup Moguls event on Japanese soil. That was also the first Moguls World Cup competition after the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games.

Nick Page (USA) was the only skier representing USA to reach the superfinal at the Olympic Games in Milano, eventually placing seventh. Page is the only USA skier to win a Moguls World Cup event in the last 10 years, winning in Idre Fjäll (SWE) in 2022/23. The last American man to win a Moguls event before this period did so on Japanese snow: Bradley Wilson (USA) in Tazawako in February 2016.

Matt Graham (AUS) finished fifth in the superfinal at the Olympic Games. Graham has recorded one podium finish in six Moguls World Cup starts on Japanese snow: a third place in Tazawako in 2015/16.

Matt Graham (AUS) can enter the all-time top 10 in podium finishes in Moguls World Cup events. Graham (20) can tie Jeremy Bloom (USA) on 21 podiums.

Julien Viel (CAN) can become the first Canadian skier not named Mikael Kingsbury to win a Moguls World Cup event in over 12 years, since Alex Bilodeau’s (CAN) triumph in Val St. Côme (CAN) in January 2014.

Elizabeth Lemley (USA) claimed gold in the women’s Moguls event at the Milano Olympic Games. She has yet to win a World Cup Moguls event. Lemley will start in a World Cup event in Japan for the first time.

In three of the six Olympic Games this century, the winner of the women’s Moguls competition went on to win the first World Cup Moguls event following the Olympic Games: Jennifer Heil (CAN) in 2006, Justine Dufour-Lapointe (CAN) in 2014 and Perrine Laffont (FRA) in 2018.

Defending champion Jakara Anthony (AUS) came into the Olympic final as the favourite, recording the highest score in Final 1, but ultimately finished eighth. It marked her lowest ranking in a Moguls event since a 13th place in a World Cup event in Deer Valley (USA) in February 2024.

Jakara Anthony (AUS) can record four straight Moguls World Cup victories for the second time in her career, after a run of six between December 2023 and January 2024.

Jakara Anthony (AUS) can win a Moguls World Cup event on Japanese snow for the first time in her career. She has already claimed World Cup Moguls victories in seven different countries.

Jakara Anthony (AUS) has reached the podium in 21 of her last 23 starts in World Cup Moguls events (15 wins in that run).

Perrine Laffont (FRA) can move into outright sixth on the all-time list of Moguls World Cup podium finishes. She currently shares sixth place with Raphaelle Monod (FRA) and Stine Lise Hattestad (NOR) with 44 podiums.

Only Jennifer Heil (CAN, 5) has recorded as many Moguls World Cup wins in Japan as Perrine Laffont (FRA, 4). Laffont has won each of the last three Moguls World Cup events staged on Japanese snow.

Olivia Giaccio (USA) is the only skier to record a podium finish at all four Moguls World Cup events this season. Giaccio has finished on the podium in eight of the last nine Moguls World Cup events she started. Giaccio missed out on the superfinal at the Olympic Games by 0.4 points, finishing ninth in the overall standings.

The last time a Moguls event was staged in Japan, in Tazawako in February 2020, Junko Hoshino (JPN) finished second in front of a home crowd. Hinako Tomitaka (JPN) hopes to follow in her footsteps.

Hinako Tomitaka (JPN) finished fourth in the Olympic Games in the Moguls event with the same score as bronze medal winner Perrine Laffont (FRA). Tomitaka had a 46 score on turns, 0.2 behind Laffont’s 46.2, which placed her fourth.

Ikuma Horishima (JPN) finished second in each of the last four Dual Moguls World Cup events. Horishima has recorded 20 podium finishes in Dual Moguls events and sits in second behind Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN, 53) on the all-time list.

Ikuma Horishima (JPN) has recorded one victory in a Dual Moguls World Cup event on Japanese soil, in Tazawako in 2017/18. Only Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN, 5) and Stephane Rochon (CAN, 2) have multiple Dual Moguls wins on Japanese snow in the World Cup.

Olympic bronze medal winner Matt Graham (AUS) hopes to continue his good form in Dual Moguls in Nanto-Toyama (JPN). He has reached a World Cup Dual Moguls podium nine times, but only one of those was a win: in Idre Fjäll (SWE) in 2020/21.

Matt Graham (AUS) recorded his first two career Dual Moguls World Cup podium finishes on Japanese snow: both in Tazawako, in 2014/15 and 2015/16. He can become the fifth skier to reach a Dual Moguls World Cup podium at least three times in Japan.

Julien Viel (CAN) won the first Dual Moguls event of the season in Val St. Côme (CAN). He can become the first man to win the first two Dual Moguls events of a World Cup season since Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN), who won all four Dual Moguls events in the 2021/22 season.

Jakara Anthony (AUS) won the gold medal in the Dual Moguls event at the Olympic Winter Games, ahead of Jaelin Kauf (USA) in second and Elizabeth Lemley (USA) in third.

Jakara Anthony (AUS, 9) can become the fourth skier to record at least 10 victories in Dual Moguls World Cup events, after Hannah Kearney (USA, 16), Jaelin Kauf (USA, 11) and Perrine Laffont (FRA, 11).

Jakara Anthony (AUS) was sixth in Dual Moguls in Val St. Côme (CAN) earlier this season, snapping a seven-event winning run in World Cup events she started in the discipline.

Jaelin Kauf (USA) won the first Dual Moguls event of the season in Val St. Côme (CAN). It marked her 13th top-two finish in a row in the discipline.

Jaelin Kauf (USA, 42) is set to tie Chloe Dufour-Lapointe (CAN) and Justin Dufour-Lapointe (CAN) on a record 43 starts in Dual Moguls World Cup events. Kauf recorded her first career Dual Moguls World Cup victory in Japan, in Tazawako in 2016/17.

Perrine Laffont (FRA) has finished inside the top three in each of the last 14 Dual Moguls World Cup events she started. Only Jaelin Kauf (USA, 30) has reached more career World Cup podiums in this discipline than Laffont (24).

Japanese women have recorded one Dual Moguls World Cup victory on Japanese snow: by Miki Ito (JPN) in Inawashiro 13 years ago in February 2013.