Cortina d'Ampezzo Snowboard Alpine World Cup: Stats Preview

2025/26 Visa FIS Snowboard Alpine World Cup – Cortina d'Ampezzo Statistics Sheet

● This race in Cortina d’Ampezzo will be the only Parallel Giant Slalom night race of the season, with the finals starting at 5.30pm, with the stunning view of the Italian Dolomites in the backdrop.

● Roland Fischnaller (ITA), also known as the King of Cortina d’Ampezzo, has been on the podium ten times in a row between 2015 and 2023, with five wins, three second places and two third places. Last year he was sixth and it was the first time he was not on the podium in Cortina. He will make his season debut in Cortina because he skipped Mylin due to injury.

● Italy has placed athletes on the podium in every Men’s Parallel race in Cortina since 2015-16. Italian men have won seven World Cup Parallel races in Cortina so far, five with Roland Fischnaller (ITA), one with Christoph Mick (ITA), who won the inaugural edition in 2015, and one with Daniele Bagozza (ITA), who won last year’s Parallel Giant Slalom.

● Last year's Men's Parallel Giant Slalom Word Cup race in Cortina was won by Daniele Bagozza (ITA), ahead of Aaron March (ITA) and Alexander Payer (AUT). Bagozza has failed to reach a podium since that race. Last year’s Cortina race was the last time Maurizio Bormolini (ITA) did not finish in the top 10 of a World Cup race.

● Last year’s Women’s Parallel Giant Slalom World Cup race in Cortina was won by Sabine Payer (AUT), ahead of Aleksandra Krol-Walas (POL) and Jasmin Coratti (ITA). Sabine Payer came third in the overall Women’s Parallel standing last season for the third season in a row. She has four third places in the final Women’s Parallel standings.

● Last season overall Parallel World Cup winner Maurizio Bormolini (ITA) won the first Men's Parallel Giant Slalom race in Mylin, China last weekend, ahead of Benjamin Karl (AUT) and Aaaron March (ITA). This was the ninth career World Cup win for Bormolini, and the second win in a row in Mylin.

● Mirko Felicetti (ITA) won the second Men's Parallel Giant Slalom race in Mylin last weekend, ahead of Stefan Baumeister (GER) and Maurizio Bormolini (ITA). Italian men swept both races in Mylin as they did last season (last year Bormolini and Edwin Coratti). It was the second ever World Cup win for Felicetti, more than five years after his first World Cup win in Blue Mountain Canada in 2020.

● Lucia Dalmasso (ITA) won the first Women's Parallel Giant Slalom race in Mylin last weekend, ahead of Elisa Caffont (ITA) and Malena Zamfirova (BUL). This was the second World Cup podium for 16-year-old Zamfirova, who was on the podium for the first time in Krynica (Poland) last season.

● Last season overall champion Tsubaki Miki (JPN) won the second Women's Parallel Giant Slalom race in Mylin last weekend, ahead of Julie Zogg (SUI) and Sabine Payer (AUT). The same three athletes were also on the podium of last season’s season opener in Mylin.

● Maurizio Bormolini (ITA) won the 2024-25 Men’s overall Parallel title ahead of Andreas Prommegger (AUT) and Daniele Bagozza (ITA). Only Italy and Austria were represented in

the top 5 of the final 2024-25 season Parallel standings. Fourth and fifth place were taken by Italian and Austrian athletes: Gabriel Messner (ITA), fourth, and Benjamin Karl (AUT), the current Olympic champion, fifth.

● Tsubaki Miki (JPN) won the 2024-25 Women’s Parallel title ahead of Ramona Theresia Hofmeister (GER) and Sabine Payer (AUT). This was Miki’s first Parallel title after she finished second the previous season. The same three athletes were in the first three positions of the 2023-24 season Parallel standings, with Hofmeister first, Miki second and Payer third.

● Sangho Lee (KOR) is the only non-European athlete who has ever won the Men’s Parallel title. He won in 2022-23. No other male Asian athlete has ever finished in the top 3 of the Parallel title.

● Gloria Kotnik (SLO), the current Women’s Parallel Giant Slalom Olympic bronze medallist, clinched her only World Cup win here in Cortina three years ago in the 2022/23 season. As of today, that is only her only individual World Cup podium. She came second in Winterberg in 2023/24 season but in Team Parallel Slalom.

● Zubair Ahmad Lone (IND) made his debut in the World Cup circuit last weekend in Mylin. He took part in the Nor-Am Cup in 2023/24 season, he took part in a couple of European Cup stages last season and also in the World Championships, and he will take part in the World Cup this season. To achieve his dream of representing India at the pinnacle of his sport, the Winter Games in 2026, Zubair has resorted to crowd-funding. He became the first Indian athlete to compete in FIS Snowboard Alpine World Cup.

● The current Olympic champion Benjamin Karl (AUT) is the athlete with the most Men’s Parallel titles, with four: 2007-08, 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2023-24.

● Andreas Prommegger (AUT) won the Men’s Parallel title three times, and could tie his countryman Benjamin Karl (AUT) at four titles should he win the title this season. Prommegger has the most career top 3 finishes in the overall Men’s Parallel standings: he finished in second five times and third twice.

● The last time there were no Italians or Austrian athletes in the top three of the Men’s Parallel standing was in the 2005-06 season, when Switzerland placed three athletes in the top three.

● By winning the 2024-25 Parallel title, Tsubaki Miki (JPN) became the first non-European female athlete to win the Women’s Parallel title.

● Ramona Theresia Hofmeister (GER) and Ester Ledecka (CZE) have won four Women’s Parallel titles each, no other female athlete has ever won more than three Parallel titles. Ledecka is the only athlete, in both genders, to have won four consecutive Parallel titles, between 2015-16 and 2018-19.