Krynica Snowboard Alpine World Cup: Stats Preview

Krynica Snowboard Alpine World Cup: Stats Preview

● Krynica will host the tenth stage of the Visa FIS Snowboard Alpine World Cup. Krynica made its FIS Snowboard Alpine World Cup debut in 2024, holding two Parallel Giant Slalom races for each gender in 2024 and 2025.

● Italy has placed at least one male athlete on the podium in each of the four Parallel Giant Slalom races held in Krynica in the past two seasons, winning just one of them with Roland Fischnaller (ITA) last season.

● Andreas Prommegger (AUT) has won two PGS races in Krynica, in 2024 and 2025 seasons. Maurizio Bormolini (ITA) finished on the podium in one of the races in 2024 season and in both races last season, which saw him winning the overall Parallel title for the first time.

● In the past two seasons at Krynica, Ramona Theresia Hofmeister (GER) has won the first of the two women’s Parallel Giant Slalom races and Tsubaki Miki (JPN) has won the second. Hofmeister eventually won the overall Parallel title in the 2023-24 season and Miki eventually won the overall Parallel title in 2024-25

● Lee Sangho (KOR) won the men’s Parallel Giant Slalom in Rogla, the last World Cup stage before the Olympic Games, ahead of Roland Fischnaller (ITA) and Fabian Obmann (AUT). This was the fourth World Cup win for Lee, and the first non-European win for a male athlete in the World Cup circuit since the end of the 2023-24 season. Lee won the last race of the World Cup that season. None of the athletes on the podium in Rogla won a medal at the Milano Cortina Olympic Games.

● Italy has won seven of 11 Men’s Parallel races this season, with four different athletes. They placed at least two athletes on the podium in seven of 11 men’s races. They also had a podium clean sweep in Carezza. While dominating the World Cup, Italy has never won an Olympic medal in a men’s Snowboard Parallel event, which was introduced in the Olympic programme in 2002.

● The defending Parallel champion Tsubaki Miki (JPN) won the women’s Parallel Giant Slalom in Rogla, the last World Cup stage before the Olympic Games, ahead of Ramona Theresia Hofmeister (GER) and Elisa Caffont (ITA). This was Miki’s second World Cup win of the season. None of the athletes on the podium in Rogla won a medal at the Milano Cortina Olympic Games.

● Aaron March (ITA) is currently leading the men’s overall Parallel standings, 21 points ahead of his countryman Maurizio Bormolini (ITA). There are currently four Italian athletes in the top seven positions, and five Austrian athletes in the top 13 positions. The only non-European athlete in the top 15 is Lee Sangho (KOR) in sixth position.

● Tsubaki Miki (JPN) is currently leading the women’s overall Parallel standings, 20 points ahead of Elisa Caffont (ITA). Miki is also the only non-European athlete in the top 10.

● 16-year-old Malena Zamfirova (BUL) is currently 10th and is seeking her first career World Cup win.

● 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 Parallel standings. Gabriel Messner (ITA) finished fourth, and Benjamin Karl (AUT) came 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) has 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. He has the most career top-3 finishes in the overall Men’s Parallel standings, he finished second five times and third twice. He is currently tenth in the Parallel standings this season.

● The last time there were no Italians or Austrian athletes in the top three of the Men’s Parallel standing was 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.