Ruka 2025/26 Freestyle World Cup: Stats Preview

2025/26 FIS Freestyle World Cup – Ruka Aerials and Moguls Stat Sheet

• There are six Aerials events in the 2025/26 FIS Freestyle World Cup season, one fewer than in 2024/25. This season will see events in Ruka (FIN), Secret Garden (CHN), Lac-Beauport (CAN), Lake Placid (USA) and Deer Valley (USA). All events will count towards the qualification for the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games.

• Seven Moguls events will be held this World Cup season. After Ruka (FIN), there will be events held in Val-St-Côme (CAN), Deer Valley (USA), Nanto-Toyama (JPN), Almaty (KAZ) and Shahdag (AZE). The two events in Ruka and the ones in Val-St-Côme and Deer Valley will also serve as qualifiers for the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games.

• The Freestyle World Cup has visited Ruka in each season since 2010/11.

Ruka Aerials World Cup - Men

• Qi Guangpu (CHN) won the Aerials Crystal Globe in 2024/25 for a second consecutive season.

• Qi Guangpu (CHN) has recorded 18 Aerials World Cup event wins in his career, joint-third on the all-time list alongside Philippe Laroche (FRA) on 18, only behind Lloyd Langlois (CAN) on 21 and Steve Omischl (CAN) on 20.

• Qi Guangpu (CHN) won the last Aerials event held in Ruka (FIN), in the 2023/24 season.

• Noé Roth (SUI) ended last season with the same Aerials World Cup points as Qi Guangpu (CHN) with 400, but lost to Qi in the tiebreaker.

• Noé Roth (SUI) has won two Aerials Crystal Globes, in 2019/20 and 2022/23.

Ruka Aerials World Cup - Women

• Laura Peel (AUS) won the Aerials Crystal Globe last season. It marked the third Aerials Crystal Globe of her career, after 2019/20 and 2020/21.

• Laura Peel (AUS) won five of the seven women’s Aerials World Cup events last season. Xu Mengtao (CHN) won the other two.

• Marion Thenault (CAN) won the most recent FIS World Cup Aerials event held in Ruka in 2023/24.

• Kaila Kuhn (USA) won the women’s Aerials event at the World Championships last season. She has yet to record a top-2 finish in an Aerials World Cup event, with two third places as her best results.

• Danielle Scott (AUS) has recorded the most podium finishes in women’s Aerials events in the last two seasons combined, but none of them were wins (six second places, three third places). Her most recent Aerials FIS World Cup victory dates back to 5 March 2023, when she won in Engadin (SUI).

Ruka Moguls World Cup - Men

• Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN) can reach 100 World Cup event victories if he wins one of the two men’s Moguls events in Ruka.

• Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN) can become the first male athlete to record 100 individual World Cup event wins. Among women, Conny Kissling (SUI) and Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) have surpassed this milestone.

• Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN) won the Moguls Crystal Globe last season. He started the season with a victory in Ruka (FIN). He has recorded nine Moguls World Cup wins in Ruka, only in Deer Valley (10) has he recorded more.

• Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN) and Ikuma Horishima (JPN) have shared each of the last 11 FIS World Cup Moguls event wins in Ruka, with Kingsbury winning nine and Horishima winning two. The last man other than these two to record a Moguls World Cup win in Ruka was Patrick Deneen (USA) in 2010.

• Ikuma Horishima (JPN) has won three of the last four men’s Moguls World Cup events. He won the Moguls Crystal Globe in 2023/24.

• Nick Page (USA) finished third in the Moguls World Cup standings last season. His sole Moguls World Cup victory, in Idre Fjäll in 2022, was the last time a rider representing USA won a men’s Moguls World Cup event.

• Benjamin Cavet (FRA) was the only skier outside of Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN) and Ikuma Horishima (JPN) to win a Moguls event in the 2024/25 World Cup. He claimed victory in Bakuriani (GEO).

Ruka Moguls World Cup - Women

• Jaelin Kauf (USA) won the Moguls Crystal Globe in the FIS World Cup 2024/25 season. She was the first skier representing the United States to do so since Hannah Kearney (USA) in 2014/15.

• Jaelin Kauf (USA) won three of the last four Moguls World Cup events last season. She had claimed a total of three wins in her first 65 career World Cup starts until that run.

• Reigning world champion Perrine Laffont (FRA) won the season opener last season in Ruka. She recorded seven podium finishes in Moguls World Cup events in 2024/25 and finished second in the standings, only 26 points behind Jaelin Kauf (USA).

• Reigning Olympic champion Jakara Anthony (AUS) is looking to make her return to FIS World Cup competition for the first time since her injury last season. She has reached the podium in 18 of her last 19 World Cup starts in Moguls events (12 wins in that run).