Davos Snowboard Alpine World Cup: Stats Preview

2025/26 Visa FIS Snowboard Alpine World Cup – Davos Statistics Sheet

● Davos will host the fourth stage of the Visa FIS Snowboard Alpine World Cup, and the first Parallel Slalom race of the season.

● This will be the third edition of the Davos Parallel Slalom, which made its Snowboard Alpine World Cup debut in 2023.

● Daniele Bagozza (ITA) won the first ever men’s Parallel Slalom in Davos back in 2023, ahead of Arvid Auner (AUT) and Edwin Coratti (ITA).

● Ramona Theresia Hofmeister (GER) won the first ever women’s Parallel Slalom in Davos in 2023, ahead of Lucia Dalmasso (ITA) and Sabine Payer (AUT).

● Last year's Men's Parallel Slalom Word Cup race in Davos was won by Arvid Auner (AUT), ahead of Dario Caviezel (SUI) and Fabian Obmann (AUT). This is the most recent World Cup win for Auner, he made just one World Cup podium since, at Winterberg (PSL). This was also the last podium for Obmann.

● Last year’s Women’s Parallel Slalom World Cup race in Davos was won by Tsubaki Miki (JPN), ahead of Michelle Dekker (NED) and Flurina Neva Baetschi (SUI). This was one of the four World Cup wins for Miki last season, who won the 2024-25 Parallel title. It was the first ever World Cup podium for Baetschi, and the only individual podium in her career.

● Roland Fischnaller (ITA) won the Carezza Men’s Parallel Giant Slalom on Thursday, ahead of Aaron March (ITA) and Mirko Felicetti (ITA). It was the first podium clean sweep by one nation this season. This was the 23rd career individual World Cup win for Fischnaller and the third one in Carezza, after he won the Parallel Giant Slalom races in 2011 and 2014.

● Sabine Payer (AUT) won the Carezza Women’s Parallel Giant Slalom on Thursday, for her second consecutive World Cup win after she won in Cortina last weekend. This marked her first win and first podium in Carezza in her fifth start at the Italian venue. Aleksandra Krol-Walas (POL) was second in Carezza for her first World Cup podium of the season. Tsubaki Miki (JPN) was third for the third year in a row. She has three starts in Carezza and all of them were third places.

● Aaron March (ITA) is currently leading the Men’s Parallel standings, 36 points ahead of his countryman Maurizio Bormolini (ITA). There are currently three Italian athletes in the top four and no non-European male athletes in the top 10. The top non-European athlete is Sangho Lee (KOR) in 13th position.

● Sabine Payer (AUT) is leading the overall Women’s Parallel standing, 51 points ahead of last season Women’s Parallel champion Tsubaki Miki (JPN). Lucia Dalmasso (ITA) is currently in third position. These three athletes are also the three athletes who won the first four races of the season.

● 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.

● 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 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.