Val St. Come Snowboard Alpine World Cup: Stats Preview

Val St. Come Snowboard Alpine World Cup: Stats Preview

● Val St. Come will host the 12th stage of the Visa FIS Snowboard Alpine World Cup, the penultimate stop of the season. The Canadian venue made its debut on the World Cup calendar last year. It hosted two Parallel Giant Slalom races per gender, the same program scheduled for this season. These races will mark the final Parallel Giant Slalom events of the season. The World Cup season ends in Winterberg where two Parallel Slalom races will be contested.

● American sisters Kaiya, Mika, and Akina Kizuka will be the first trio of siblings ever to compete together in the same Alpine Snowboard World Cup event.

● Maurizio Bormolini (ITA) claimed victory in the only men’s Parallel Slalom race in Spindleruv Mlyn last weekend, extending his lead in the overall Parallel standings. Ryusake Shinohara (JPN) finished second, with Mirko Felicetti (ITA) third. This was the first ever World Cup podium for Shinohara, who had a previous career best finish of seventh. He is the first Japanese male athlete to podium in a Snowboard Alpine World Cup event. It was the third win in a row for Bormolini, the fifth this season and 12th of his career.

● Italy has won 10 of 14 Men’s Parallel races this season, with four different athletes topping the podium. They placed at least two athletes on the podium in eight of the 14 men’s races. They also swept the podium 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 2002.

● The defending Parallel champion and current World Cup leader Tsubaki Miki (JPN) won the only women’s Parallel Slalom race in Spindleruv Mlyn last weekend, ahead of current Olympic champion Zuzana Maderova (CZE) and Michele Dekker (NED). This was Miki’s fourth World Cup win of the season, and third World Cup win in the last four contested races. This was the fifth World Cup podium of the season for Maderova, and seventh of her career, but she is still seeking her first World Cup win.

● Zan Kosir (SLO) won the first men’s Parallel Giant Slalom race last season in Val St. Come, with Benjamin Karl (AUT) second and Radoslav Yankov (BUL) third. That was Kosir’s last World Cup win to date, and also his last World Cup podium. Elias Huber (GER) won the second men’s Parallel Giant Slalom race last season in Val St. Come, with Roland Fischnaller (ITA) second and Maurizio Bormolini (ITA) third. This was the first ever World Cup win for Huber, and his only individual World Cup win to date.

● Ramona Theresia Hofmeister won both women’s Parallel Giant Slalom races last season in Val St. Come. In the first race, Sabine Payer (AUT) came second and Michelle Dekker (NED) third. In the second race, Julie Zogg (SUI) came second and Tsubaki Miki (JPN) third. Hofmeister won six World Cup races last season, four of them coming at just two venues, Bansko and Val St. Come.

● Maurizio Bormolini (ITA) is currently leading the men’s overall Parallel standings, 189 points ahead of his countryman Aaron March (ITA). There are currently four Italian athletes in the top seven positions, and five Austrian athletes in the top 18 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, 151 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.