2026 Men's Downhill World Cup
| |
Previous: 2025 | Next: 2027 |
The men's downhill in the 2026 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup is scheduled to consist of nine events, including the final. The season is scheduled to begin with two downhills at Beaver Creek, Colorado (U.S.) on 4 and 5 December 2025, then to proceed to Europe for the remainder of the races, according to the initial schedule released on 12 June 2025. [1]
The season will be interrupted for the quadrennial 2026 Winter Olympics in three regions in Italy -- Milan, the Stelvio Pass, and Cortina d'Ampezzo -- during 6–22 February 2026. [2] All of the Alpine skiing events for men are scheduled to take place on the classic Stelvio course at Bormio. [3] The championship in men's downhill is scheduled to be held on Saturday, 7 February.
[This section will be added beginning in December 2025.]
The World Cup finals in the discipline are scheduled to take place on Saturday, 21 March 2026 on the Olympiabakken course at Kvitfjell, near Lillehammer, Norway. [4] Only the top 25 skiers in the World Cup downhill discipline and the winner of the 2026 FIS Junior World Championships in the discipline, plus any skiers who have scored at least 500 points in the World Cup overall classification for the season, will be eligible to compete in the final, and only the top 15 will earn World Cup points.