2025/26 FIS Ski Cross World Cup Val Thorens Statistics
Dec 05, 2025·Ski Cross
Men's Statistics
Last season’s Crystal Globe means Reece Howden (CAN) has now joined Jean Frederic Chapuis on three career World Cup overall victories, just one behind all-time leader Tomas Kraus.
With 18 World Cup event victories, Reece Howden (CAN) is level with Jean Frederic Chapuis as the male athlete with the most wins, and could overtake Chapuis with a victory on the track named after the Frenchman.
Reece Howden’s (CAN) seven World Cup victories last season was the most wins in a single season by a male athlete, surpassing Michael Schmid’s record of five in 2010.
Reece Howden (CAN) won 41% of World Cup races last season, the best percentage win rate by a male athlete since Schmid won 45% of races in the 2010 season.
Simone Deromedis’ (ITA) total of three World Cup wins last season represented his best single-season tally to date. That total included winning the opening race of the season in Val Thorens.
After five World Cup podium finishes without a victory in 2024, Florian Wilmsmann (GER) scored a career-high three victories in a single season in 2025.
The second race of last season’s Val Thorens event produced the first-ever tied race in World Cup history, as Alex Fiva (SUI) and Adam Kappacher (AUT) shared the win after a photo finish.
After his shared victory last season in Val Thorens, Alex Fiva (SUI) holds the record for the longest gap between first and most recent World Cup victory for a male athlete - with his maiden victory coming 12 years, 11 months and six days prior to last season’s success.
Adam Kappacher’s (AUT) only podium appearance of last season was his shared victory in the second race of the Val Thorens event.
For the first season since 2020, David Mobaerg (SWE) failed to win a World Cup race last season.
Despite being the reigning world and Olympic champion, Ryan Regez (SUI) has only won one World Cup race since 2022 - the opening race of Val di Fassa last season.
For the fourth consecutive year, the Ski Cross World Cup season will start in Val Thorens in France.
Only in two of the previous 15 seasons has the winner of the first race of the opening event lifted the Crystal Globe at the end of the season. Both of those times the curtain-raiser was on the slopes of Val Thorens - Kevin Drury winning in the 2020 season and Jean Frederic Chapuis in the 2017 season.
After a Frenchman took to the podium in every event held in Val Thorens between 2014 and 2023, there has been no home athlete in the top three of a race in the previous two seasons.
World Cup 2025/26 – Women’s Val Thorens Statistics
In winning last season’s Crystal Globe, Fanny Smith (SUI) drew level with Marielle Thompson (CAN) and Sandra Naeslund (SWE) on four World Cup overall victories, with only Ophelie David having won more (7).
A single World Cup victory in the 2026 season for either Fanny Smith (SUI) and Marielle Thompson (CAN) would mean they equal Ophelie David’s record of winning at least one race in 11 different seasons.
Fanny Smith’s (SUI) 11 World Cup podium finishes last season equalled Sandra Naeslund’s (SWE) 2022 record for top three finishes in a single season.
Sandra Naeslund (SWE) has the highest number of World Cup wins (39) and the highest win-percentage (35%) of any athlete, male or female, to have competed on the World Cup circuit.
After fracturing her tibia in the opening event at Val Thorens last season and missing the entire campaign, it was the first season since 2016 Sandra Naeslund (SWE) did not win a World Cup race.
On the six occasions that Val Thorens has hosted the opening weekend of the season, Sandra Naeslund (SWE) has won the first race of the weekend on four of those occasions.
Marielle Thompson (CAN) has won more times at Val Thorens than at any other venue, with a total of five career victories at the French resort.
Having notched her first career win in the 2024 season in Val Thorens, Daniela Maier (GER) scored a career-high three victories last season.
India Sherret (CAN) finished inside the top 10 in all 15 World Cup races she competed in last season, the most races an athlete has raced in a season without finishing outside the top 10.
Daniela Maier (GER) finished second in the World Cup standings last season, becoming the first German female athlete to finish in the top three since Heidi Zacher finished second in 2011.
Jole Galli (ITA) only had a single podium finish to her name before the 2025 season, but racked up five top-three finishes, including two victories, last season.
Marielle Berger Sabbatel (FRA) has the lowest win-to-podium ratio of any competitor in World Cup history, having finished in the top three 31 times but winning only two of those races.
For the fourth consecutive year, the Ski Cross World Cup season will start in Val Thorens.
No French female has won a World Cup Ski Cross race in France since 2011, when Ophelie David triumphed in Les Contamines.
