Spindleruv Mlyn Snowboard Alpine World Cup: Stats Preview

Spindleruv Mlyn Snowboard Alpine World Cup: Stats Preview

● Spindleruv Mlyn will host the 11th stage of the Visa FIS Snowboard Alpine World Cup. Spindleruv Mlyn will make its FIS Snowboard Alpine World Cup debut. It will be the first ever snowboard Alpine race on Czech soil. There will be only one parallel slalom race because the race originally scheduled for March 8 was cancelled.

● Maurizio Bormolini (ITA) claimed victory in both men’s Parallel Giant Slalom races in Krynica last weekend, taking the lead in the overall Parallel standings. In the first race, Lee Sangho (KOR) finished second, while Arnaud Gaudet (CAN) placed third. In the second race, Stefan Baumeister (GER) finished second, while Dario Caviezel (SUI) placed third. This was the first individual World Cup podium of the season for Caviezel. None of the athletes on the podium in Krynica won a medal at the Milano Cortina Olympic Games.

● Italy has won nine of 13 Men’s Parallel races this season, with four different athletes. They placed at least two athletes on the podium in seven of 13 men’s races. They also had a podium clean sweep in Carezza.

● Although Italy has dominated the World Cup this season and in recent years, it has never claimed an Olympic medal in a men’s Snowboard parallel event, which was added to the Olympic programme in 1998.

● The defending Parallel champion Tsubaki Miki (JPN) won the first women’s Parallel Giant Slalom race in Krynica last weekend, ahead of current Olympic champion Zuzana Maderova (CZE) and Ramona Theresia Hofmeister (GER). This was Miki’s third World Cup win of the season, and second one in a row after her win in Rogla before the Milano Cortina Olympic Winter Games. Sabine Payer (AUT) won the second women’s Parallel Giant Slalom race, ahead of Lucia Dalmasso (ITA) and Malena Zamfirova (BUL). It was Zamfirova’s second podium this season after a third in the first race of the campaign.

● Maurizio Bormolini (ITA) is currently leading the men’s overall Parallel standings, 134 points ahead of his countryman Aaron March (ITA). There are currently four Italian athletes in the top eight positions, and five Austrian athletes in the top 17 positions. The top non-European athlete is Lee Sangho (KOR) in sixth position.

● Tsubaki Miki (JPN) is currently leading the women’s overall Parallel standings, 101 points ahead of Elisa Caffont (ITA). Miki is the only non-European athlete in the top 10.

● 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 12th 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.