2025/26 FIS Freeski Big Air World Cup – Beijing Big Air Statistics Sheet
● Beijing is the second of 4 Big Air World Cup occasions within the 2025/26 season: Secret Backyard (CHN); Beijing (CHN); Steamboat (USA); and Tignes (FRA). The primary three occasions function qualifiers for the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Video games.
● Beijing was added to the Freeski World Cup calendar within the 2019/20 season and thus far has hosted three editions of the Big Air World Cup (2019/20, 2023/24, 2024/25).
Beijing Big Air World Cup – Males
● Troy Podmilsak (USA) gained the 2025/26 Big Air World Cup season opener in Secret Backyard (CHN) final weekend. Dylan Deschamps (CAN) was runner-up, Luca Harrington (NZL) completed in third place.
● Secret Backyard was Podmilsak’s first World Cup win. Earlier than Secret Backyard, his finest World Cup end was third in Chur in 2022/23, and extra just lately he was fourth in Tignes (FRA) in 2024/25. Nonetheless, Podmilsak claimed gold on the Bakuriani 2023 Big Air World Championships and X Video games massive air gold earlier than his first World Cup win in Secret Backyard. Podmilsak will not be competing in Beijing.
● Second place in Secret Backyard was Dylan Deschamps’ fourth Big Air World Cup podium, equalling Teal Harle as probably the most profitable Canadian Freeski Big Air athlete at World Cup degree.
● Luca Harrington (NZL) claimed his fifth consecutive podium in Secret Backyard. The streak began with Harrington’s win in Klagenfurt in January 2025, which was additionally his first Big Air World Cup top-three end. That is the longest streak of podium finishes in Big Air World Cup historical past.
● If Luca Harrington achieves one other podium end in Beijing, he’ll be part of Matej Svancer (AUT) and Alex Corridor (USA) in equal third place on the all-time Big Air podiums checklist with six World Cup top-three finishes apiece.
● Seventeen-year-old Lucas Ball (NZL) achieved his first World Cup top-10 end result by ending sixth in Secret Backyard. He was the youngest athlete on the occasion’s begin checklist.
● So far, no Freeski athlete has gained the Beijing Big Air World Cup occasion twice. Tormod Frostad (NOR) gained final 12 months’s version, with Miro Tabanelli (ITA) in second place and Dylan Deschamps (CAN) in third.
● Each earlier Beijing Big Air World Cup occasion has featured a Canadian skier on the rostrum: Teal Harle was second in 2019; Edouard Therriault was second in 2023; and Dylan Deschamps was third in 2024. Crew Norway has recorded two wins in Beijing: Birk Ruud in 2019 and Tormod Frostad in 2024. No different nations have achieved a couple of podium in Beijing.
Beijing Big Air World Cup – Girls
● Kirsty Muir (GBR) gained the 2025/26 Big Air World Cup season opener in Secret Backyard (CHN). Naomi Urness (CAN) was second, Liu Mengting (CHN) was third.
● After Secret Backyard and the Stubai Slopestyle World Cup in November, Anni Karava (FIN) leads the ladies’s total Freeski Park & Pipe standings with 110 factors, forward of Mathilde Gremaud (SUI) on 107 and Kirsty Muir on 100.
● Secret Backyard was Kirsty Muir’s (GBR) first Big Air World Cup victory. She additionally has a Slopestyle World Cup win from the 2024/25 season finale in Tignes (FRA). Muir is the primary British athlete to assert a win in each disciplines.
● Kirsty Muir (GBR) had a breakout season in 2023/24 when she secured two World Cup podiums. After ending third at Copper Mountain (USA) in December 2023, Muir missed the remainder of the season and many of the 2024/25 season as a consequence of a knee harm.
● Together with her third place end Liu Mengting (CHN) recorded Crew China’s finest end in a house Big Air World Cup occasion final weekend. Beforehand, China’s finest end result was Liu’s sixth place in Beijing in December 2024.
● Naomi Urness (CAN) was runner-up in Secret Backyard in her maiden Big Air World Cup occasion. That is the primary time a Canadian athlete has claimed the second spot on a Big Air podium. In Canada’s 10 earlier podiums, the nation claimed 4 wins and three third-place finishes.
● Sarah Hoefflin (SUI) was eighth in Secret Backyard, placing her on prime of the all-time checklist of top-10 Big Air World Cup outcomes with a complete of 18. Mathilde Gremaud (SUI) and Silvia Bertagna (ITA) at the moment are in joint second place with 17 top-10 World Cup outcomes.
● No athlete has gained the Beijing Big Air World Cup occasion twice. Tess Ledeux (FRA) claimed final 12 months’s version, forward of Sarah Hoefflin (SUI) and Flora Tabanelli (ITA) in third.
● Each earlier Beijing Big Air World Cup occasion has featured Swiss and Italian skiers on the rostrum. It was Sarah Hoefflin (SUI) and Flora Tabanelli (ITA) final season; in 2023/24 Mathilde Gremaud (SUI) was first and Flora Tabanelli (ITA) third; in 2019/20 Giulia Tanno (SUI) was second and Silvia Bertagna (ITA) was third.
● Chinese language athletes have by no means recorded a top-five end in Beijing. China’s finest end in Beijing was Liu Mengting’s sixth place in December 2024.
