Franjo von Allmen / GEPA footage
The lads’s World Cup downhill in Crans-Montana brings collectively excess of a begin checklist. This preview contains how and when to watch, the total official begin checklist, and the every day program, together with in-depth context on each main contender, the present downhill standings, and the highest World Cup Start Record (WCSL) seeds. Full nation rosters for the USA, Canada, and Nice Britain are verified straight in opposition to the beginning checklist, as this race doubles as the ultimate World Cup occasion earlier than the Olympic Video games and the final alternative to assess the 2027 World Championship downhill observe.
The story nearly at all times begins with Marco Odermatt. Any time the Swiss star places on a race bib, he’s the favourite — dominant throughout venues, relentlessly constant, and nonetheless the benchmark for the self-discipline. However the stress behind him is rising quick. Giovanni Franzoni, 23, is the most recent and arguably hottest risk in males’s pace, and Franjo von Allmen is as quick as anybody on earth — when he places collectively a clear run.
Sunday’s race carries further weight past the traditional World Cup stakes.
Race particulars
- Occasion: sixth Men’s Downhill — Crans-Montana (SUI)
- Course: Piste Nationale
- Area: 60 opponents / 16 nations
Present males’s DH podiums this season (2025–26)
| Venue | 1st | 2nd | third |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaver Creek (USA) | 🇨🇭 Marco Odermatt (SUI) | 🇺🇸 Ryan Cochran-Siegle (USA) | 🇳🇴 Adrian Smiseth Sejersted (NOR) |
| Val Gardena / Gröden DH1 (ITA) | 🇨🇭 Marco Odermatt (SUI) | 🇨🇭 Franjo von Allmen (SUI) | 🇮🇹 Dominik Paris (ITA) |
| Val Gardena / Gröden DH2 (ITA) | 🇨🇭 Franjo von Allmen (SUI) | 🇨🇭 Marco Odermatt (SUI) | 🇮🇹 Florian Schieder (ITA) |
| Wengen (SUI) | 🇨🇭 Marco Odermatt (SUI) | 🇦🇹 Vincent Kriechmayr (AUT) | 🇮🇹 Giovanni Franzoni (ITA) |
| Kitzbühel (AUT) | 🇮🇹 Giovanni Franzoni (ITA) | 🇨🇭 Marco Odermatt (SUI) | 🇫🇷 Maxence Muzaton (FRA) |
TOP FIVE — Men’s Downhill Standings (after Kitzbühel, 2025–26)
- 1st 🇨🇭 Marco Odermatt (SUI, 1997, Stöckli) — 460 pts
- 2nd 🇨🇭 Franjo von Allmen (SUI, 2001, Head) — −165
- third 🇮🇹 Giovanni Franzoni (ITA, 2001) — −244
- third 🇮🇹 Dominik Paris (ITA, 1989, Nordica / Marker) — −244
- fifth 🇮🇹 Florian Schieder (ITA, 1995, Atomic) — −270
TOP SEVEN — WCSL Downhill
Word: Vincent Kriechmayr, AUT, who’s coaching in Saalbach for the Olympics, just isn’t on the Crans-Montana begin checklist, so the “top-seven entered” set shifts.
- Bib 7 🇮🇹 Florian Schieder (ITA, 1995, Atomic) — WCSL DH Rank: 5
- Bib 8 🇮🇹 Dominik Paris (ITA, 1989, Nordica / Marker) — WCSL DH Rank: 3
- Bib 9 🇫🇷 Nils Allègre (FRA, 1994) — WCSL DH Rank: 7
- Bib 10 🇨🇭 Marco Odermatt (SUI, 1997, Stöckli) — WCSL DH Rank: 1
- Bib 12 🇮🇹 Giovanni Franzoni (ITA, 2001) — WCSL DH Rank: 3
- Bib 15 🇨🇭 Franjo von Allmen (SUI, 2001, Head) — WCSL DH Rank: 2
- Bib 16 🇫🇷 Maxence Muzaton (FRA, 1990) — WCSL DH Rank: 8
🇺🇸 United States (USA) — Men’s Downhill begin checklist (bib order)
The massive U.S. notice coming in is Kitzbühel: Erik Arvidsson (tied nineteenth) and Wiley Maple (tied nineteenth) (unbiased) have been the very best U.S. outcomes, and neither is headed to the Olympics — robust outcomes, sadly, one race too late to change the Bormio choices.
- Bib 4 🇺🇸 Bryce Bennett (USA, 1992, Oakley) — DH Rank: 41
- Bib 14 🇺🇸 Ryan Cochran-Siegle (USA, 1992, Head) — DH Rank: 12
- Bib 36 🇺🇸 Wiley Maple (USA, 1997, Atomic) — DH Rank: 46 — skis independently (not Stifel U.S. Ski Crew)
- Bib 41 🇺🇸 Kyle Negomir (USA, 1998, Atomic) — DH Rank: 25
- Bib 42 🇺🇸 Jared Goldberg (USA, 1991) — (no DH factors this season)
- Bib 44 🇺🇸 Erik Arvidsson (USA, 1996, Head) — DH Rank: 46
- Bib 51 🇺🇸 Sam Morse (USA, 1996) — DH Rank: 49
- Bib 59 🇺🇸 Isaiah Nelson (USA, 2001, SHRED)
🇨🇦 Canada (CAN) — Men’s Downhill begin checklist (bib order)
For Canada, it’s two diverging arcs: Cameron Alexander continues a return to kind, whereas the season has introduced a puzzling lack of top-end pace from James Crawford. The hope is that Alexander retains constructing towards Bormio, and Crawford finds his conventional tempo in time.
- Bib 2 🇨🇦 Cameron Alexander (CAN, 1997) — DH Rank: 15
- Bib 3 🇨🇦 James Crawford (CAN, 1997, Head) — DH Rank: 36
- Bib 25 🇨🇦 Brodie Seger (CAN, 1995, Atomic) — DH Rank: 42
- Bib 37 🇨🇦 Jeffrey Learn (CAN, 1997, Atomic) — DH Rank: 53
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🇬🇧 Nice Britain (GBR) — Men’s Downhill begin checklist
This might be a World Cup debut for Owen Vinter, who’s making his first-ever World Cup begin in Crans-Montana.
- Bib 58 🇬🇧 Owen Vinter (GBR, 2001) — World Cup rookie; first profession WC begin
Sunday’s downhill takes place on February 1st and begins at 5:00 a.m. ET / 2:00 a.m. PT. Followers in Nice Britain can watch the race at 10:00
How to Watch
Day by day Program
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Men’s Start Record
