Val St. Côme 2025/26 Freestyle World Cup: Stats Preview

A Moguls event will be staged for the eighth time in Val St. Côme (CAN). Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN) won five of the previous seven editions on the men’s side, including last season ahead of Julien Viel (CAN) and Olli Penttala (FIN).

The Dual Moguls World Cup cycle consists of five events this season: Val St. Côme (CAN), Waterville Valley (USA), Nanto-Toyama (JPN), Almaty (KAZ) and Shahdag (AZE).

This will be the fourth time a Dual Moguls World Cup event will be held at Val St. Côme (CAN), after 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25. The women’s event was won by three different skiers: Anri Kawamura (JPN), Jakara Anthony (AUS) and Jaelin Kauf (USA). Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN) won the last two editions on the men’s side, after Walter Wallberg (SWE) triumphed in 2022/23.

Ikuma Horishima (JPN) started the Moguls World Cup season with a victory and a second place in the opening two events at Ruka (FIN).

Ikuma Horishima (JPN) has reached the podium in each of the last six Moguls World Cup events, a run that started after a sixth place in Val St. Côme (CAN) last season. It marks the second-longest podium run in Moguls events of his career, after nine in a row between December 2021 and December 2022.

Ikuma Horishima’s (JPN) best result in a World Cup Moguls event at Val St. Côme (CAN) is a third place in 2022/23. He failed to reach the podium in all of his five other starts there, including a sixth place last season.

Ikuma Horishima (JPN) has won 17 Moguls World Cup events in his career. If he wins one more, he will join Jean-Luc Brassard (CAN) and Janne Lahtela (FIN), who have the third-most event wins in Moguls World Cup history with 18. Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN, 62) and Edgar Grospiron (FRA, 28) make up the top two.

Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN) can reach 100 World Cup event victories if he wins either the Moguls or Double Moguls event this weekend.

Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN) can become the second male athlete to record 100 individual FIS World Cup event wins after Johannes Høsflot Klæbo (NOR). Among women, Conny Kissling (SUI), Marit Bjørgen (NOR) and Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) have surpassed this milestone.

Matt Graham (AUS) recorded the fourth Moguls World Cup event victory of his career in Ruka (FIN) last month. He can become the third skier in the last 12 years, alongside Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN) and Ikuma Horishima (JPN), to win back-to-back World Cup Moguls events.

Walter Wallberg (SWE) recorded his only prior career Moguls World Cup event win in Val St. Côme (CAN) in 2023/24. He finished ahead of Elliot Vaillancourt (CAN) and Filip Gravenfors (SWE) that day.

Daeyoon Jung (KOR) is aiming to become the first skier representing the Republic of Korea to win a Moguls World Cup event. He is already the only KOR man to reach a Moguls podium, finishing second in Almaty (KAZ) in 2024/25.

Tess Johnson (USA) comes into Val St. Côme (CAN) as the leader in the Moguls standings, 10 points ahead of Jakara Anthony (AUS) and Olivia Giaccio (USA).

Tess Johnson (USA) has won two of the last four Moguls World Cup events she started in, after she had failed to record a single win in her first 61 career World Cup starts.

Maia Schwinghammer (CAN) recorded her sole career Moguls event win in Val St. Côme (CAN) last season, ahead of Jaelin Kauf (USA) and Olivia Giaccio (USA).

Jaelin Kauf (USA) has reached the podium in eight of the last nine Moguls World Cup events, with a 38th place in Ruka (FIN) in the season opener last month as the exception.

Jaelin Kauf (USA) has reached the podium three times in Moguls events in Val St. Côme (CAN): third in 2022/23 and second places in 2023/24 and 2024/25. Only Chloe Dufour-Lapointe (CAN, 4) has recorded more podium finishes in Val St. Côme (CAN).

Since the start of last season, only Perrine Laffont (FRA, 8) and Jaelin Kauf (USA, 8) have recorded as many podium finishes in Moguls World Cup events as Olivia Giaccio (USA, 7). Giaccio is the only skier to finish on the podium in both events in Ruka (FIN) last month.

Jakara Anthony (AUS) returned to World Cup competition in Ruka (FIN) last month with a sixth place and a victory. She has reached the podium in 19 of her last 21 starts in World Cup Moguls events (13 wins in that run).

Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN) has won the Dual Moguls Crystal Globe all four times since the reintroduction of the split standings in 2021/22.

Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN) has won a record 37 Dual Moguls World Cup events. Ikuma Horishima (JPN) sits in second on the list with six wins.

Ikuma Horishima (JPN) finished second in each of the last three Dual Moguls World Cup events of last season. Horishima has recorded 19 podium finishes in Dual Moguls events, behind Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN) on the all-time list with 53.

Ikuma Horishima (JPN) has yet to reach a World Cup Dual Moguls podium at Val St. Côme (CAN), finishing 8th, 19th and 33rd respectively in the last three seasons.

Only Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN, 5) and Ikuma Horishima (JPN, 4) recorded more podium finishes in Dual Moguls events than Filip Gravenfors (SWE, 3) last season. Gravenfors finished third in Bakuriani (GEO), Waterville (USA) and Livigno (ITA) in 2024/25.

Jaelin Kauf (USA) claimed the Dual Moguls Crystal Globe last season, winning five of the seven events and finishing second in the other two. Perrine Laffont (FRA) finished second, Rino Yanagimoto (JPN) third.

Jaelin Kauf (USA) leads the all-time list of most podium finishes in Dual Moguls events with 29. Perrine Laffont (FRA) follows on 24.

Perrine Laffont (FRA, 11), Jaelin Kauf (USA, 10) and Jakara Anthony (AUS, 9) sit in second, third and fourth place respectively on the all-time list for Dual Moguls World Cup event wins, trailing only Hannah Kearney (USA, 16).

Jaelin Kauf (USA) has reached the podium in each of the last 13 Dual Moguls World Cup events since a 27th place at Alpe d’Huez in December 2023. She finished either first or second in the last 12 Dual Moguls events.

Jakara Anthony (AUS) has won the Dual Moguls Crystal Globe twice since the reintroduction of the split standings, lifting the trophy in 2021/22 and 2023/24.

Anastassiya Gorodko (KAZ) hopes to become the second skier representing Kazakhstan to claim an event win in Dual Moguls, after Yuliya Galysheva (KAZ). Gorodko recorded her first career Dual Moguls podium finish in Val St. Come (CAN) last season, finishing second behind Jaelin Kauf (USA).