Courchevel World Cup Downhill Start List: Odermatt Nears Crystal Globe

Ryan Cochran-Siegle / GEPA footage

The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup males’s downhill in Courchevel, France, now scheduled for Friday, March 13, is the eighth downhill of the 2025-26 season and the ultimate regular-season downhill race earlier than the World Cup Finals discipline is finalized. The race will happen on L’Éclipse, one of many latest and most demanding tracks on the boys’s circuit.

This text supplies every thing followers want forward of the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup males’s downhill in Courchevel, France. Readers will discover how and when to observe the race, the official begin checklist, the every day program, and evaluation of the sphere, together with the present downhill standings, podium traits from the season, and a take a look at the skiers most certainly to problem for the rostrum on the L’Éclipse course.

With solely two downhill races remaining this season, the stakes are excessive throughout the standings. Marco Odermatt leads the self-discipline standings by a large margin and will successfully lock up the downhill crystal globe with one other sturdy end in Courchevel.

What does the 2025-26 downhill season seem like up to now?

Season podium snapshot (by Garmisch-Partenkirchen)

• 4 totally different race winners
• 10 totally different skiers have reached the rostrum
• 6 nations represented on the rostrum

Podium totals by nation

• 🇨🇭 Switzerland — 10
  🇮🇹 Italy — 6
  🇦🇹 Austria — 2
  🇺🇸 United States — 2
  🇳🇴 Norway — 1
  🇫🇷 France — 1

The numbers spotlight Switzerland’s dominance within the self-discipline this winter, capped by the Swiss podium sweep in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which prolonged the nation’s lead in whole podium appearances.

Who leads the downhill standings heading into Courchevel?

Prime 5 – World Cup Downhill Standings (7 of 9 races)

1st 🇨🇭 Marco Odermatt (SUI, 1997, Stöckli) — 610 pts
2nd 🇨🇭 Franjo von Allmen (SUI, 2001, Head) — −175
third 🇮🇹 Dominik Paris (ITA, 1989, Nordica) — −285
4th 🇮🇹 Giovanni Franzoni (ITA, 2001, Oakley) — −336
fifth 🇮🇹 Florian Schieder (ITA, 1995, Atomic) — −359

With two downhill races remaining — Courchevel and the World Cup Finals — the race for the downhill crystal globe closely favors Odermatt.

The Swiss star holds a commanding 175-point lead over Olympic downhill champion Franjo von Allmen, making it tough to see anybody else taking the season title. For von Allmen to overhaul him, Odermatt would primarily need to collapse over the ultimate two races whereas von Allmen produces near-perfect outcomes.

Given Odermatt’s consistency this season, the downhill globe is firmly in his management heading into Courchevel.

Which skiers are most certainly to struggle for the rostrum?

The rostrum contenders in Courchevel are most certainly to come back from the group of skiers presently holding the prime ten positions on the World Cup Downhill Start Record (WCSL). Their bib numbers point out when the strongest racers will begin, giving viewers a transparent sense of when the most certainly podium contenders will push the restrict on L’Éclipse.

Prime 10 – WCSL Downhill (ordered by bib)

• Bib 15 🇮🇹 Dominik Paris (ITA, 1989, Nordica) — WCSL DH Rank 3
• Bib 6 🇮🇹 Giovanni Franzoni (ITA, 2001, Oakley) — WCSL DH Rank 4
• Bib 7 🇨🇭 Alexis Monney (SUI, 2000, Stöckli) — WCSL DH Rank 5
• Bib 8 🇫🇷 Nils Allegre (FRA, 1994) — WCSL DH Rank 8
• Bib 9 🇦🇹 Vincent Kriechmayr (AUT, 1991, Head) — WCSL DH Rank 6
• Bib 10 🇮🇹 Mattia Casse (ITA, 1990) — WCSL DH Rank 10
• Bib 11 🇮🇹 Florian Schieder (ITA, 1995, Atomic) — WCSL DH Rank 7
• Bib 12 🇨🇭 Franjo von Allmen (SUI, 2001, Head) — WCSL DH Rank 2
• Bib 13 🇺🇸 Ryan Cochran-Siegle (USA, 1992, Head) — WCSL DH Rank 9
• Bib 14 🇨🇭 Marco Odermatt (SUI, 1997, Stöckli) — WCSL DH Rank 1

What does the North American image seem like earlier than the Finals?

The standings additionally create an vital subplot for a number of North American racers heading into Courchevel. It’s shocking to see 2025 Kitzbühel Champion James Crawford presently exterior the projected World Cup Finals downhill discipline; he would want one thing spectacular in Courchevel to maneuver into the prime 25 and earn an invite.

Two North Individuals, nevertheless, have already secured their locations within the Finals. Cameron Alexander of Alpine Canada and Ryan Cochran-Siegle of the Stifel U.S. Ski Workforce each have sufficient factors to qualify no matter how they ski in Courchevel.

For a number of others, the margin is extraordinarily tight. A number of racers might nonetheless transfer into the highest 25 with an distinctive efficiency and a few assist from athletes instantly forward of them within the standings. That actuality means Friday’s race would be the closing World Cup downhill of the season for a lot of skiers.

Stifel U.S. Ski Workforce

• Bib 13 🇺🇸 Ryan Cochran-Siegle (USA, 1992, Head) — Stifel U.S. Ski Workforce, Mt. Mansfield Ski Academy / Cochran’s Ski Membership — World Cup DH Rank 8, 192 DH pts
• Bib 25 🇺🇸 Bryce Bennett (USA, 1992) — Stifel U.S. Ski Workforce — World Cup DH Rank 37, 32 DH pts
• Bib 30 🇺🇸 Kyle Negomir (USA, 1998, Atomic) — Stifel U.S. Ski Workforce, Ski & Snowboard Club Vail / Vail Ski & Snowboard Academy — World Cup DH Rank 30, 39 DH pts
• Bib 37 🇺🇸 Wiley Maple (USA, 1990, Atomic) — USA Unbiased — World Cup DH Rank 46, 20 DH pts
• Bib 41 🇺🇸 Jared Goldberg (USA, 1991) — Stifel U.S. Ski Workforce
• Bib 42 🇺🇸 Erik Arvidsson (USA, 1996, Head) — Stifel U.S. Ski Workforce / Middlebury School — World Cup DH Rank 33, 36 DH pts
• Bib 46 🇺🇸 Sam Morse (USA, 1996) — Stifel U.S. Ski Workforce, Carrabassett Valley Academy — World Cup DH Rank 52, 7 DH pts
• Bib 58 🇺🇸 Isaiah Nelson (USA, 2001) — Stifel U.S. Ski Workforce

Alpine Canada

• Bib 16 🇨🇦 Cameron Alexander (CAN, 1997) — Alpine Canada — World Cup DH Rank 13, 122 DH pts
• Bib 17 🇨🇦 James Crawford (CAN, 1997, Head) — Alpine Canada — World Cup DH Rank 39, 28 DH pts
• Bib 32 🇨🇦 Brodie Seger (CAN, 1995, Atomic) — Alpine Canada — World Cup DH Rank 47, 18 DH pts
• Bib 38 🇨🇦 Jeffrey Learn (CAN, 1997, Atomic) — Alpine Canada — World Cup DH Rank 55, 4 DH pts

GB Snowsport

• Bib 56 🇬🇧 Owen Vinter (GBR, 2001)

Friday’s downhill takes place on March thirteenth and begins at 6:00 a.m. EDT / 3:00 a.m. PDT. Followers in Nice Britain can watch the race at 10:00

The right way to Watch

Every day Program

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Males’s Start Record