2025 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's downhill

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2025 Men's Downhill World Cup
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The men's downhill in the 2025 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup is scheduled to consist of nine events, including the finals. Two-time discipline champion Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway, who failed to win last season because he suffered life-threatening injuries on the Lauberhorn downhill course in January 2024, developed a shoulder infection at the surgical site over the summer and needed a second surgery, which is expected to cause him to miss the entire season, making defending discipline champion Marco Odermatt of Switzerland an overwhelming favorite to earn the season championship. [1]

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The season will be interrupted for the Alpine Skiing World Championships, this time in Saalbach, Austria during 4–16 February 2025. [2] The championship in men's downhill is scheduled for Sunday, 9 February.

Season summary

Downhill season began in early December 2024 at Beaver Creek (Colorado), USA with Swiss skier Justin Murisier winning his first-ever World Cup race in an upset over his Swiss teammate Marco Odermatt. [3] However, Odermatt bounced back to dominate the next downhill in Val Gardena. [4]

Finals

The World Cup finals in the discipline are scheduled to take place on Saturday, 22 March 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho, USA. [5] Only the top 25 skiers in the World Cup slalom discipline and the winner of the Junior World Championship in the discipline, plus any skiers who have scored at least 500 points in the World Cup overall classification for the season, are eligible to compete in the final, and only the top 15 earn World Cup points.

Standings

Venue
6 Dec 2024
Beaver Creek
21 Dec 2024
Val Gardena/Gröden
28 Dec 2024
Bormio
18 Jan 2025
Wengen
25 Jan 2025
Kitzbühel
9 Feb 2025
Saalbach

WC
22 Feb 2025
Crans Montana
8 Mar 2025
Kvitfjell
22 Mar 2025
Sun Valley
#Skier Flag of the United States.svg Flag of Italy.svg Flag of Italy.svg Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Flag of Austria.svg Flag of Germany.svg Flag of Austria.svg Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Flag of Norway.svg Flag of the United States.svg Total
1  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Marco Odermatt 80100180
2  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Justin Murisier 1002102
3  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Franjo von Allmen 38083
4 Flag of the United States.svg Ryan Cochran-Siegle 226082
Flag of France.svg Nils Allègre 325082
6 Flag of Slovenia.svg Miha Hrobat 601676
7 Flag of the United States.svg Bryce Bennett 403272
8 Flag of Austria.svg Stefan Eichberger 114051
9 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg James Crawford 50050
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Brodie Seger 262450
11  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Stefan Rogentin 202646
12 Flag of Slovenia.svg Martin Čater 04545
Flag of Austria.svg Vincent Kriechmayr 45045
14 Flag of France.svg Cyprien Sarrazin 291443
15 Flag of Germany.svg Romed Baumann 03636
Flag of France.svg Blaise Giezendanner 36DNF36
17  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Lars Rösti 132235
18 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Cameron Alexander DNF2929
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Jan Zabystřan 24529
Flag of Austria.svg Daniel Hemetsberger 72229
21 Flag of Italy.svg Mattia Casse 51823
22  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Alexis Monney 20020
23 Flag of Italy.svg Dominik Paris 12618
24  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Marco Kohler 16016
25 Flag of France.svg Maxence Muzaton 15015
Flag of Austria.svg Stefan Rieser 01515
27  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Livio Hiltbrand 01514
Flag of Germany.svg Luis Vogt 01514
Flag of Austria.svg Stefan Babinsky 14014
30 Flag of Sweden.svg Felix Monsen 01111
Flag of France.svg Adrien Théaux 01111
Flag of Austria.svg Otmar Striedinger 2911
33 Flag of the United States.svg Sam Morse 10010
34 Flag of Norway.svg Adrian Smiseth Sejersted 909
35 Flag of the United States.svg Erik Arvidsson 088
Flag of Italy.svg Florian Schieder 808
37  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Josua Mettler 077
38 Flag of Austria.svg Raphael Haaser 6DNS6
39 Flag of Liechtenstein.svg Marco Pfiffner 044
Flag of Italy.svg Christof Innerhofer 044
Flag of Italy.svg Giovanni Franzoni 404
42 Flag of Germany.svg Simon Jocher 022
Flag of France.svg Nils Alphand 202
Flag of Austria.svg Felix Hacker 022
Flag of France.svg Matthieu Bailet DNF00
  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Arnaud Boisset DNFDNS0
Flag of Finland.svg Elian Lehto 000
Flag of the United States.svg Jared Goldberg 000
Flag of Austria.svg Daniel Danklmaier 0DNS0
  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Niels Hintermann DNSDNS0
Flag of Italy.svg Guglielmo Bosca DNSDNS0
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Jeffrey Read 000
Flag of Germany.svg Andreas Sander DNSDNS0
Flag of France.svg Alexis Pinturault DNSDNS0
Flag of the United States.svg Wiley Maple 000
Flag of Austria.svg Christopher Neumayer DNSDNS0
Flag of Germany.svg Josef Ferstl DNSDNS0
Flag of Italy.svg Pietro Zazzi 000
Flag of Germany.svg Dominik Schwaiger DNSDNS0
Flag of the United States.svg Kyle Negomir 000
Flag of Germany.svg Thomas Dreßen DNSDNS0
  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Gilles Roulin DNSDNS0
Flag of Norway.svg Fredrik Møller 000
References [6] [7]

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