Waterville 2025/26 Freestyle World Cup: Stats Preview

2025/26 FIS Freestyle World Cup Season Waterville Moguls and Dual Moguls Stat Sheet

• The FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup will visit Waterville (USA) for the third time, after 2023/24 and 2024/25.

• Both on the men’s and the women’s side, only two different skiers have won events in Waterville (USA): Ikuma Horishima (JPN) in the men’s Moguls event in 2023/24, Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN) the men’s Dual Moguls in 2023/24 and both events in 2024/25. On the women’s side, Jakara Anthony (AUS) won both events in 2023/24, Perrine Laffont (FRA) in 2024/25.

Waterville Moguls World Cup - Men

• Ikuma Horishima (JPN) won the first of the two prior World Cup Moguls events held in Waterville (USA), in 2023/24. He can win multiple Moguls World Cup events at a venue for the fourth time, after three wins in Ruka (FIN) and Deer Valley (USA) and two in Alpe d’Huez (FRA).

• Ikuma Horishima (JPN) has won 17 Moguls World Cup events in his career. He is one more away from entering the all-time top three, to tie Jean-Luc Brassard (FRA) and Janne Lahtela (FIN) on 18 wins. Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN, 62) and Edgar Grospiron (FRA, 28) make up the top two.

• Ikuma Horishima (JPN) finished 15th in the Moguls World Cup event in Val St. Côme (CAN) last week. He has not finished outside of the top 10 in back-to-back Moguls events since a 12th place in Calgary (CAN) and 30th place in Deer Valley (USA) in January 2018.

• Since the start of the 2021/22 season, Matt Graham (AUS, 2) is one of only three skiers on multiple Moguls World Cup event wins, alongside Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN, 18) and Ikuma Horishima (JPN, 11).

• Only Matt Graham (AUS) and Nick Page (USA) finished inside the top four at all three Moguls events this World Cup season.

• Nick Page (USA) 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 on US snow was Nathan Roberts (USA), when he triumphed in Deer Valley (USA) in January 2007.

Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN) completed a century of World Cup event wins in Val St. Côme (CAN) last week, winning the Moguls event. Kingsbury is not competing in Waterville (USA) this season.

Waterville Moguls World Cup - Women

• Jakara Anthony (AUS) has won the last two Moguls World Cup events and leads the standings coming in to Waterville (USA), 10 points ahead of Tess Johnson (USA).

• Jakara Anthony (AUS) has reached the podium in 20 of her last 22 starts in World Cup Moguls events (14 wins in that run).

• Jakara Anthony (AUS) can become the first skier to win multiple Moguls World Cup events in Waterville (USA). She won here in her only prior appearance, in 2023/24. Last season’s winner, Perrine Laffont (FRA), will not compete in Waterville (USA) this weekend.

• Olivia Giaccio (USA) is the only skier to record a podium finish at all three Moguls World Cup events this season. Giaccio has finished on the podium in seven of the last eight Moguls World Cup events she started, including a third place in Waterville (USA) last season.

• Tess Johnson (USA) has placed inside the top two in three of the last five Moguls World Cup events she started in, a feat that she had not achieved in the first 61 World Cup starts of her career. This season, she won the opener in Ruka (FIN) and finished second in Val St. Côme (CAN) last week.

• Tess Johnson (USA) can record a top-10 rank in a World Cup Moguls event in Waterville (USA) for the first time in her career. She has previously finished 11th and 13th in this discipline at the venue.

• US women have featured on the podium of each of the last 10 Moguls World Cup events, dating back to 6 December 2024, when Jakara Anthony (AUS), Perrine Laffont (FRA) and Maia Schwinghammer (CAN) made up the top three in Idre Fjäll (SWE).

Waterville Dual Moguls World Cup - Men

• Julien Viel (CAN) 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.

• 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.

• Since the start of last season, only Mikaël Kingsbury (CAN, 5) and Ikuma Horishima (JPN, 5) recorded as many podium finishes in Dual Moguls events as Filip Gravenfors (SWE, 4)

• Benjamin Cavet (FRA) has recorded the third-most podium finishes in Dual Moguls World Cup events of all-time, but has yet to record a victory. In Dual Moguls events, Cavet has recorded 10 second places and five third places.

Waterville Dual Moguls World Cup - Women

• The Dual Moguls podium in Val St. Côme (CAN) was swept by three USA skiers: Jaelin Kauf (USA), Elizabeth Lemley (USA) and Tess Johnson (USA). It was the second time a Dual Moguls World Cup podium was swept by athletes from a single nation, after Kai Owens (USA), Hannah Soar (USA) and Tess Johnson (USA) finished 1-2-3 in Deer Valley (USA) in 2020/21.

• 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, 11) has tied Perrine Laffont (FRA, 11) in second place on the all-time list of most World Cup event wins in Dual Moguls, only behind Hannah Kearney (USA, 16).

• Jaelin Kauf (USA) is the only skier to reach multiple Dual Moguls World Cup podiums in Waterville (USA). She finished second in both of the prior editions.

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

• Elizabeth Lemley (USA) aims to reach a World Cup podium on US snow for the first time in her career.

• Anastassiya Gorodko (KAZ) hopes to become the second skier representing Kazakhstan to claim an event win in Dual Moguls, after Yuliya Galysheva (KAZ). Gorodko has finished ninth in both prior instances in Dual Moguls in Waterville (USA).