# 2025 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's downhill

The women's downhill in the 2025 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup is scheduled to consist of seven events, including the final. An eighth scheduled downhill at La Thuile in mid-March was cancelled due to excessive snowfall, which forced both training runs to be cancelled, thus preventing the race from taking place. After the elimination of the two downhills scheduled in November on the "Gran Becca" course on the Matterhorn from the 2025 schedule, the first race of the season in this discipline did not take place on 14 December in Beaver Creek, Colorado, United States. Austria's Conny Hütter won the season discipline championship (her first) in the final race last season; this season; Hütter came to the finals in a three-way battle for the title with two Italians, Federica Brignone and Sofia Goggia.
The season was interrupted for the Alpine Skiing World Championships, this time in Saalbach, Austria during 4–16 February 2025. The championship in women's downhill took place on Saturday, 8 February, and was won by American Breezy Johnson, who had returned from a suspension in December 2024 but was only ranked tenth so far this season.

## Season summary

The first downhill of the 2025 season was held on the very steep Birds of Prey course at Beaver Creek, Colorado, United States, the first time the women World Cup racers had ever held a competitive event on the course (although the men have been running the course for decades), and defending discipline champion Cornelia Hütter of Austria (who commented, "”I've never skied that steep before.") edged past both Sofia Goggia of Italy, the four-time discipline champion in her first race back from a season-ending injury in February, and defending overall champion Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland. The next downhill, one month later in St Anton, Austria, produced several surprises: a victory by Federica Brignone, at 34 the oldest winner ever on the women's World Cup circuit, winning her 30th World Cup race . . . but her first downhill ever; a second place by rising Swiss star Malorie Blanc in her second-ever World Cup race; and a sixth place by 40-year-old Lindsey Vonn, an 8-time downhill discipline champion now returning to the circuit after six years in retirement and a complete knee replacement with titanium. Goggia returned to the winner's circle back in her home country in the next race at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, with her countrywoman Brignone, who finished third, taking over both the lead in the discipline and the overall lead.
In the last downhill before the World Championships, Brignone won the downhill at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany by 1/100 of a second over Goggia, enabling her to expand her lead in the discipline over Goggia to 29 points, with defending champion Hütter 81 points back. But in the World Championships, American Breezy Johnson, who had never won a World Cup race despite seven top-three finishes, surprisingly turned in the winning time as the first skier on the course. In the first of two downhills at Kvitfjell after the worlds, Hütter recovered from failing to podium before home fans at Saalbach and won her second downhill of the season, edging out (by .05 seconds) Germany's Emma Aicher, a 21-year-old all-events skier reaching her first World Cup podium ever, with Johnson third for her first World Cup podium of the season. In the second race, Aicher edged out 22-year-old American Lauren Macuga by .03 seconds for her first World Cup win, with Hütter finishing third and closing to 16 points behind Brignone for the season lead (with Goggia another 18 points back and two races to go). The snowout at La Thuile then delayed the three-woman showdown for the discipline championship until finals.

## Finals

The World Cup finals in the discipline are scheduled to take place on Saturday, 22 March 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho, United States. Only the top 25 skiers in the World Cup slalom discipline and the winner of the Junior World Championship in the discipline (Stefanie Grob of Switzerland), plus any skiers who have scored at least 500 points in the World Cup overall classification for the season, are eligible to compete in the final, and only the top 15 earn World Cup points.

## Standings

| | Venue | 14 Dec 2024 Beaver Creek | 11 Jan 2025 St Anton | 18 Jan 2025 Cortina d'Ampezzo | 25 Jan 2025 Garmisch | 8 Feb 2025 Saalbach WC | 28 Feb 2025 Kvitfjell | 1 Mar 2025 Kvitfjell | 14 Mar 2025 La Thuile | 22 Mar 2025 Sun Valley | |
| # | Skier | | | | | | | | | | Total |
| 1 | Federica Brignone | 29 | 100 | 60 | 100 | ⑩ | 45 | 50 | x | | 384 |
| 2 | Cornelia Hütter | 100 | 36 | 40 | 32 | ④ | 100 | 60 | x | | 368 |
| 3 | Sofia Goggia | 80 | DNF | 100 | 80 | ⑯ | 50 | 40 | x | | 350 |
| 4 | Lauren Macuga | 50 | 29 | 15 | 40 | ⑤ | 16 | 80 | x | | 230 |
| 5 | Lara Gut-Behrami | 60 | 20 | 50 | 45 | DNF | 22 | 32 | x | | 229 |
| 6 | Laura Pirovano | 24 | 50 | 24 | 26 | ⑬ | 40 | 45 | x | | 209 |
| 7 | Breezy Johnson | 20 | 24 | 9 | 50 | ① | 60 | 26 | x | | 189 |
| 8 | Ester Ledecká | 40 | 60 | 32 | DNS | ③ | 29 | 22 | x | | 183 |
| 9 | Emma Aicher | 0 | DNF | 0 | DNS | ⑥ | 80 | 100 | x | | 180 |
| 10 | Corinne Suter | 10 | 16 | 45 | 60 | ⑦ | 18 | 29 | x | | 178 |
| 11 | Kajsa Vickhoff Lie | 22 | 18 | 80 | 22 | ⑭ | 15 | 11 | x | | 168 |
| 12 | Ilka Štuhec | 26 | 14 | 29 | 9 | ⑪ | 36 | 20 | x | | 134 |
| 13 | Jacqueline Wiles | 2 | DNF | 36 | 24 | DNF | 32 | 18 | x | | 112 |
| 14 | Mirjam Puchner | 16 | 13 | 26 | 15 | ② | 24 | 13 | x | | 107 |
| 15 | Ariane Rädler | 8 | 26 | 18 | 36 | ⑰ | 13 | 5 | x | | 106 |
| 16 | Stephanie Venier | 14 | 45 | 22 | 11 | ⑨ | 5 | DNS | x | | 97 |
| 17 | Kira Weidle-Winkelmann | DNS | 22 | 14 | 29 | ⑫ | 26 | DNF | x | | 91 |
| 18 | Malorie Blanc | DNS | 80 | 7 | DNS | ⑲ | 2 | 0 | x | | 89 |
| 19 | Lindsey Vonn | DNS | 40 | 11 | DNF | ⑮ | 20 | 15 | x | | 86 |
| 20 | Marte Monsen | 6 | 8 | 0 | 14 | ⑰ | 11 | 36 | x | | 75 |
| 21 | Marta Bassino | 36 | DNS | 13 | 22 | DNS | 0 | 0 | x | | 71 |
| 22 | Michelle Gisin | 32 | 10 | 0 | 14 | DNS | 4 | 6 | x | | 66 |
| 23 | Nicol Delago | 0 | 3 | 8 | 18 | ⑧ | 14 | 14 | x | | 57 |
| 24 | Laura Gauché | 3 | 15 | 22 | 10 | ⑳ | 0 | 5 | x | | 55 |
| 25 | Nadia Delago | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | DNS | 12 | 24 | x | | 54 |
| | Christina Ager | 11 | 7 | 16 | 7 | DNS | 3 | 10 | x | | 54 |
| 27 | Ricarda Haaser | 45 | 6 | 2 | DNF | DNS | DNS | DNS | x | NE | 53 |
| 28 | Priska Ming-Nufer | 18 | DSQ | 1 | 8 | ㉑ | 7 | 16 | x | NE | 50 |
| 29 | Elena Curtoni | 7 | 12 | DNF | 16 | DNS | 9 | 2 | x | NE | 46 |
| 30 | Nina Ortlieb | 9 | 32 | 4 | DNF | DNS | DNS | DNS | x | NE | 45 |
| 31 | Romane Miradoli | 12 | 9 | 5 | 6 | ㉓ | 1 | 3 | x | NE | 36 |
| | Delia Durrer | 1 | 0 | 12 | 3 | DNS | 11 | 9 | x | NE | 36 |
| 33 | Magdalena Egger | DNS | 0 | 6 | 5 | DNS | 0 | 13 | x | NE | 24 |
| 34 | Janine Schmitt | DNS | 12 | 0 | 0 | DNS | 0 | 8 | x | NE | 20 |
| 35 | Nadine Fest | DNS | 5 | DNS | 0 | DNS | 6 | 8 | x | NE | 19 |
| 36 | Jasmina Suter | 15 | 0 | 0 | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | x | NE | 15 |
| 37 | Roberta Melesi | 13 | DNF | 0 | 0 | DNS | 0 | DNS | x | NE | 13 |
| 38 | Valérie Grenier | DNS | 0 | 10 | DNS | DNS | 0 | 0 | x | NE | 10 |
| 39 | Isabella Wright | 0 | 0 | 0 | DNF | DNS | 8 | DNF | x | NE | 8 |
| 40 | Elvedina Muzaferija | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ㉓ | 0 | 0 | x | NE | 6 |
| 41 | Karen Clément | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ㉒ | 0 | 0 | x | NE | 4 |
| | Alice Robinson | DNS | 0 | DNS | 4 | DNS | 0 | DNS | x | | 4 |
| 43 | Keely Cashman | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | DNS | DNF | 0 | x | NE | 3 |
| 44 | Vicky Bernardi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | DNS | 0 | 0 | x | NE | 2 |
| 45 | Sara Thaler | 0 | 1 | DNF | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | x | NE | 1 |
| | Joana Hählen | DNF | 0 | DNF | 1 | DNS | 0 | DNS | x | NE | 1 |
| | Haley Cutler | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | DNS | 0 | 1 | x | NE | 1 |
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### Legend

* Winner (100 points)
* 2nd place (80 points)
* 3rd place (60 points)
* DNF = Did not finish
* DSQ = Disqualified
* Did not start (DNS)
* Not eligible for finals (NE)
* Race canceled (x)
* FIS non-World Cup race (World Championships)
* Updated on 14 March 2025, after 6 of 7 events plus 1 cancellation and worlds.