# 2025 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's giant slalom

The men's giant slalom in the 2025 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup is scheduled to consist of nine events, including the final. The season opened in Sölden, Austria on 27 October 2024. Through the first four events of this season, the discipline has had four different leaders; however, the last of that group, three-time defending champion Marco Odermatt of Switzerland, kept the lead after taking it and wrapped up the discipline title the week before finals.
The season was interrupted for the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2025, this time in Saalbach, Austria during 4–16 February 2025. The championship in men's giant slalom took place on Friday, 14 February, and was won in a huge upset by Raphael Haaser of Austria, who had never won a top-level race in his career (although he had previously won a silver and a bronze medal in the World Championships).

## Season summary

The first giant slalom of the season, scheduled as usual on the Rettenbach glacier in Sölden, Austria in October, resulted in a Norwegian podium sweep, with Alexander Steen Olsen leading the pack. In their returns from retirement, former Norwegian star Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, now of Brazil after one year away, finished fourth, and former Austrian superstar Marcel Hirscher, now of the Netherlands after five years away, finished 23rd. Pinheiro Braathen then assumed the overall lead by one point over Steen Olsen in the second race of the season at Beaver Creek, Colorado (United States), when he narrowly finished second (for Brazil's first-ever World Cup podium finish) behind only Thomas Tumler of Switzerland in Tumler's first World Cup victory (at the same site where he had his first podium finish in 2018).
Back in Europe, at Val d'Isére (France), three-time defending discipline champion Marco Odermatt of Switzerland scored his first points of the season with a narrow victory during dark and snowy conditions, but current Norwegian star Henrik Kristoffersen took over the discipline lead from Braathen with a fifth-pace finish. The very next week, Odermatt won the giant slalom in Alta Badia and took over first place in the discipline from Kristoffersen by one point (200 to 199). Then, in the first giant slalom of 2025, Odermatt's come-from-behind effort in the second run gave him his fourth consecutive victory in the race in Adelboden, Switzerland, tying Ingmar Stenmark's consecutive-victory record, and also giving him a commanding lead in the discipline over Kristoffersen, who was in second after the first run but failed to complete the second. In the last race before the world championships, a night giant slalom in Schlamding, Austria, Alexander Steen Olsen and Kristofferson managed to pull off a Norwegian 1-2, moving each of them within 100 points of Odermatt for the discipline lead.
At the World Championships in Saalbach, Austria, the host country's Raphael Haaser, better known as a super-G racer (in which he had already won silver) and the final selection to the Austrian team for the race, came from fifth on the second run to upset the favored Swiss and win the gold medal, with Swiss skiers placing second (Tumler), third (Loïc Meillard), and fourth (Odermatt). In the first giant slalom after the worlds, Kristoffersen grabbed his first victory of the season over Braathen, with Odermatt third, leaving Kristoffersen 41 points behind in the discipline with two races to go. But the next race, in Hafjell, Norway, ended the battle, as Loïc Meillard won the race with Odermatt second, while Kristoffersen only managed to finish 16th, giving Odermatt both the discipline and overall titles for the season.

## Finals

The World Cup finals in the discipline are scheduled to take place on Wednesday, 26 March 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho, United States. Only the top 25 skiers in the World Cup giant slalom discipline and the winner of the Junior World Championship in the discipline (Flavio Vitale of France), 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 | 27 Oct 2024 Sölden | 8 Dec 2024 Beaver Creek | 14 Dec 2024 Val d'Isère | 22 Dec 2024 Alta Badia | 12 Jan 2025 Adelboden | 28 Jan 2025 Schladming | 14 Feb 2025 Saalbach WC | 1 Mar 2025 Kranjska Gora | 15 Mar 2025 Hafjell | 26 Mar 2025 Sun Valley | |
| # | Skier | | | | | | | | | | | Total |
| | Marco Odermatt | DNF1 | DNF2 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 60 | ④ | 60 | 80 | | 500 |
| 2 | Henrik Kristoffersen | 80 | 45 | 45 | 29 | DNF2 | 80 | ⑧ | 100 | 15 | | 394 |
| 3 | Alexander Steen Olsen | 100 | 29 | DNS | 60 | DNF2 | 100 | DNF2 | 12 | 45 | | 346 |
| 4 | Loïc Meillard | DNS | 20 | 29 | 15 | 80 | 50 | ③ | 40 | 100 | | 334 |
| 5 | Lucas Pinheiro Braathen | 50 | 80 | DNF2 | 9 | DNF1 | 22 | ⑭ | 80 | 50 | | 291 |
| 6 | Thomas Tumler | 18 | 100 | 6 | DNF2 | 50 | 12 | ② | 32 | 60 | | 278 |
| 7 | Filip Zubčić | DNF2 | 40 | 26 | 50 | 45 | 29 | ⑬ | 22 | 32 | | 244 |
| 8 | Žan Kranjec | 40 | 60 | 32 | 36 | 18 | 36 | ⑪ | 15 | 4 | | 241 |
| 9 | Stefan Brennsteiner | DNF1 | 26 | 60 | 18 | DNF1 | 45 | DNF1 | 50 | 40 | | 239 |
| 10 | Luca De Aliprandini | 26 | 32 | 40 | 20 | 60 | 18 | ⑨ | DNF2 | 12 | | 208 |
| 11 | River Radamus | 24 | 36 | 14 | 16 | 26 | 22 | ⑰ | 22 | 36 | | 196 |
| 12 | Atle Lie McGrath | 60 | 50 | 10 | 40 | DNF2 | 26 | ⑩ | DNQ | 8 | | 194 |
| 13 | Patrick Feurstein | 32 | DNQ | 80 | 12 | 10 | 11 | ⑯ | 14 | 22 | | 181 |
| 14 | Timon Haugan | 22 | 5 | 22 | 45 | 40 | 15 | ⑦ | 18 | 13 | | 180 |
| 15 | Thibaut Favrot | 16 | 24 | 9 | 26 | 20 | 32 | ⑥ | 24 | 11 | | 162 |
| 16 | Joan Verdú | DNS | 16 | 36 | DNF1 | 32 | 40 | DNF2 | 29 | DNF1 | | 153 |
| 17 | Léo Anguenot | 7 | 18 | 6 | 80 | DNF1 | 16 | ⑮ | DNF1 | 16 | | 143 |
| 18 | Marco Schwarz | DNS | DNS | DNS | 5 | 29 | 24 | ⑤ | 45 | 18 | | 121 |
| | Sam Maes | 22 | 13 | 4 | DNF1 | 13 | 14 | ㉕ | 26 | 29 | | 121 |
| 20 | Luca Aerni | DNS | DNS | 50 | 14 | 36 | 9 | DNF1 | 11 | DNF2 | | 120 |
| 21 | Alex Vinatzer | 45 | 8 | DNF1 | 32 | 13 | DNQ | ㉑ | DNQ | DNF2 | | 98 |
| 22 | Raphael Haaser | 36 | 11 | DNF1 | DNS | DNS | 11 | ① | 36 | DNF2 | | 94 |
| 23 | Gino Caviezel | 29 | 14 | 24 | 22 | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | | 89 |
| 24 | Anton Grammel | DNQ | DNF1 | DNQ | 24 | 15 | DNQ | ⑫ | 16 | 26 | | 81 |
| 25 | Alexander Schmid | 15 | 22 | 16 | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | | 53 |
| 26 | Alexis Pinturault | DNS | 15 | 3 | 8 | 22 | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | NE | 48 |
| 27 | Rasmus Windingstad | 11 | DNQ | 15 | 7 | DNF1 | 4 | DNS | DNF1 | 10 | NE | 47 |
| 28 | Filippo Della Vite | DNQ | DNF2 | DNQ | DNF1 | 24 | 8 | ㉔ | 13 | DNF2 | NE | 45 |
| 29 | Tormis Laine | DNQ | DNQ | 18 | 11 | 6 | 5 | DNF1 | 4 | DNQ | NE | 44 |
| 30 | Fabian Gratz | DNQ | 12 | 12 | DNF1 | 7 | 0 | ⑱ | 6 | 6 | NE | 43 |
| 31 | Jonas Stockinger | 6 | 7 | 11 | DNQ | 13 | DNF1 | ㉖ | DNQ | DNQ | NE | 37 |
| 32 | Giovanni Borsotti | 12 | DNF1 | 20 | DNF1 | DNF2 | 3 | DNS | DNQ | DNQ | NE | 35 |
| 33 | Manuel Feller | DNF1 | DNS | DNF2 | DNQ | 16 | 13 | DNS | DNF2 | 5 | NE | 34 |
| 34 | Lukas Feurstein | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNS | 14 | 8 | DNS | 10 | DNQ | NE | 32 |
| | Alban Elezi Cannaferina | DNS | DNS | 8 | DNQ | DNQ | DNF1 | DNS | DNQ | 24 | NE | 32 |
| 36 | Tommy Ford | 10 | DNF1 | 13 | DNF1 | DNF2 | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | NE | 23 |
| 37 | William Hansson | 13 | 6 | DNF1 | 3 | DNQ | DNF1 | DNF2 | DNF1 | DNQ | NE | 22 |
| 38 | Flavio Vitale | DNQ | DNS | DNF1 | DNF1 | DNQ | DNS | DNS | DNQ | 20 | | 20 |
| 39 | Stefan Luitz | DNS | 9 | DNQ | DNQ | DNF1 | 2 | DNS | 8 | DNQ | NE | 19 |
| 40 | Noel Zwischenbrugger | DNS | DNS | DNQ | DNQ | 9 | DNQ | DNS | DNQ | 9 | NE | 18 |
| 41 | Patrick Kenney | DNQ | DNF2 | DNF1 | DNQ | 8 | DNQ | ㉜ | 9 | DNQ | NE | 17 |
| 42 | Fadri Janutin | DNF2 | 10 | DNQ | 6 | DNF1 | DNQ | DNS | DNQ | DNQ | NE | 16 |
| 43 | Justin Murisier | 14 | DNQ | DNS | DNQ | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | NE | 14 |
| | Rasmus Bakkevig | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNF1 | 14 | NE | 14 |
| 45 | Andreas Žampa | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | 13 | DNQ | DNQ | ㉘ | DNF1 | DNQ | NE | 13 |
| 46 | Loévan Parand | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNQ | DNQ | DNS | 5 | 7 | NE | 12 |
| 47 | Erik Read | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | 11 | DNQ | DNQ | ㉒ | DNQ | DNQ | NE | 11 |
| 48 | Diego Orecchioni | DNQ | DNQ | DNF1 | 4 | DNF1 | 6 | DNS | DNS | DNS | NE | 10 |
| 49 | Linus Straßer | 9 | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | NE | 9 |
| 50 | Marcel Hirscher | 8 | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | NE | 8 |
| 51 | Hannes Zingerle | DNQ | DNQ | 7 | DNQ | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | NE | 7 |
| | Bridger Gile | DNF1 | DNF1 | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | ⑲ | 7 | DNQ | NE | 7 |
| 53 | Victor Muffat-Jeandet | 5 | DNQ | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | NE | 5 |
| 54 | Livio Simonet | 4 | DNQ | DNF1 | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNS | DNQ | DNQ | NE | 4 |
| 55 | Cyprien Sarrazin | 3 | DNF2 | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | DNS | NE | 3 |
| | Jesper Wahlqvist | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNS | DNQ | 3 | NE | 3 |
| 57 | Mattias Rönngren | DNQ | DNS | DNQ | 2 | DNQ | DNQ | DNS | DNS | DNS | NE | 2 |
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### Legend

* Winner (100 points)
* 2nd place (80 points)
* 3rd place (60 points)
* DNQ = Did not qualify for run 2
* DNF1 = Did not finish run 1
* DSQ1 = Disqualified run 1
* DNF2 = Did not finish run 2
* DSQ2 = Disqualified run 2
* DNS2 = Did not start run 2
* Did not start (DNS)
* Not eligible for finals (NE)
* Race canceled (x)
* FIS non-World Cup race (World Championships)
* Updated at 15 March 2025, after 8 of 9 events plus worlds.