Flachau Slopestyle World Cup: Stats Preview

• Flachau (AUT) will host a Slopestyle World Cup for the second time after 2024/25. Last season, Zoi Sadowski Synnott (NZL) triumphed in the women’s event, ahead of Annika Morgan (GER) in second and Mari Fukada (JPN) in third. That victory helped Sadowski-Synnott secure the women’s 2024/25 Slopestyle Crystal Globe. The men’s event was cancelled due to adverse weather conditions.

• The last time a men’s Slopestyle World Cup event was held on Austrian snow was in January 2019 when Mons Roisland (NOR) triumphed in Kreischberg (AUT).

Flachau Slopestyle World Cup – Men

• Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Slopestyle champion and 2025/26 FIS Slopestyle standings leader Su Yiming (CHN, 140 pts) will not compete in Flachau (AUT). Of the other riders on at least 100 points – Yuto Kimura (JPN, 109), Jake Canter (USA, 100) and Romain Allemand (FRA, 100) – Kimura and Canter will compete in Flachau.

• Jake Canter (USA) secured bronze in Slopestyle at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games. He is the only Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic medalist to compete in Flachau.

• Jake Canter (USA) recorded his career first Slopestyle World Cup win this season, in Snowmass (USA). He can become the first U.S. rider to win multiple Slopestyle World Cup events in the same season.

• Yuto Kimura (JPN) made his World Cup debut this season. He has yet to finish outside the top-10, finishing ninth in Snowmass (USA) and earning his first World Cup podium with a second place in Laax (SUI).

• Yuto Kimura (JPN) can become the first Japanese winner of a men’s Slopestyle World Cup event since Ryoma Kimata’s triumph in Tignes (FRA) in March 2024.

• Cameron Spalding (CAN) recorded his first two career Slopestyle World Cup wins to start the 2024/25 season, but has not reached the top-10 since: he has finished 16th-16th-20th in his three most recent Slopestyle World Cup starts.

• Cameron Spalding (CAN) can join a group of five riders to record at least three Slopestyle World Cup wins: Marcus Kleveland (NOR, 5), Chris Corning (USA, 4), Redmond Gerard (USA, 4), Mons Roisland (NOR, 3) and Sebastien Toutant (CAN, 3).

• Noah Vicktor (GER) is aiming to join Leon Vockensperger (GER) as the only riders representing Germany to win a Slopestyle World Cup. Vicktor’s sole career podium finish came last season in Laax (SUI), when he finished third. Vicktor made his World Cup debut on Austrian snow with a 27th place at the Slopestyle World Cup in Kreischberg (AUT) in 2018/19.

• Niek van der Velden (NED, 29) will become the third rider to start in at least 30 Slopestyle World Cup events, after Lyon Farrell (NZL, 33) and Francis Jobin (CAN, 30). Van der Velden made his Slopestyle World Cup debut on Austrian snow in Kreischberg in 2016/17.

• Caleb Dhawornvej (USA) is set to start at his first World Cup event outside of the United States. His sister Lily Dhawornvej (USA) became Slopestyle Junior World Champion in Calgary (CAN) on 28 February 2026.

Flachau Slopestyle World Cup – Women

• None of the three Milano Cortina 2026 Slopestyle medalists (Mari Fukada (JPN, gold), Zoi Sadowski Synnott (NZL, silver) and Kokomo Murase (JPN, bronze) will compete at Flachau.

• Lily Dhawornvej (USA) became Slopestyle Junior World champion in Calgary ahead of Suzuka Ishimoto (JPN) and third-placed Jessica Perlmutter (USA).

• Lily Dhawornvej (USA) can take the lead in the 2025/26 FIS Slopestyle standings with a podium finish in Flachau. Her 109 points trail women’s Slopestyle standings leader Kokomo Murase (JPN, 160) by 51 points. The last U.S. rider to lead the women’s Slopestyle standings was Julia Marino (USA) when she won the 2023/24 season opener.

• Anna Gasser (AUT) finished third in her only Slopestyle World Cup start of the season in Laax in January. Gasser has recorded a top-five finish in each of her last 12 Slopestyle World Cup starts.

• Anna Gasser (AUT, 12) is equal first on the all-time women’s Slopestyle World Cup podium finishes alongside Jamie Anderson (USA, 12) and Kokomo Murase (JPN, 12).

• Anna Gasser (AUT) has competed in two Slopestyle World Cup events on home snow, both in Kreischberg. She recorded a first place in 2016/17 and second place in 2018/19. At her first senior Slopestyle competition in Austria, Gasser recorded a second-place finish at the 2015 World Championships in Kreischberg (AUT).

• Annika Morgan (GER) has recorded five Slopestyle World Cup podium finishes and is yet to claim a World Cup victory. Only Brooke Voigt (CAN) has reached more World Cup Slopestyle podiums without winning, with six top-three finishes. Morgan finished second at the previous Slopestyle World Cup in Flachau in 2025, which also marks her most recent podium finish. She can record multiple podiums at a single resort for the second time after Laax (SUI) if she finishes within the top-three in Flachau. 

• Jessica Perlmutter (USA) made her international senior debut during the 2025/26 season with a seventh-place finish at the Snowmass Slopestyle World Cup and sixth place in the Milano Cortina 2026 women’s Slopestyle final. Perlmutter secured bronze in Slopestyle at the Junior World Championships in Calgary (CAN).

• Sky Remans (BEL) finished fourth in Slopestyle at the Junior World Championships in Calgary and won gold in Big Air. She can become the first Belgian woman to reach a Slopestyle World Cup podium.

• No Japanese woman will compete in Flachau this week, which means Japan’s streak of eight consecutive Slopestyle World Cup podiums will come to an end.