2026 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's super-G

The season-opening race at Copper Mountain came down to a two-man battle, but defending discipline champion Marco Odermatt of Switzerland edged Austria's Vincent Kriechmayr by .08 seconds for the victory, in a race that was also noted for the return after almost two years (from a life-threatening injury suffered in January 2024) of former overall champion Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway, who is also the fiancé of American star Mikaela Shiffrin, and Shiffrin was present at the finish line to greet him.^[6] The super-G at Beaver Creek the next week battled high winds and fresh snow, and a crash by Switzerland's Franjo von Allmen, starting 14th, led to a delay, after which none of the later runners were able to crack the top ten, and the weather conditions led to the race being stopped after 31 racers had gone; the winner was Kriechmayr, who had started sixth and defeated the field (except for Fredrik Møller of Norway) by over a second, giving him the overall lead in the discipline.^[7] After this race, the super-G season continued in Europe, but an unusual late weather shift at Val Gardena/Gröden (in the Italian Dolomites) allowed the later racers to have clear visibility, while the earlier racers had dealt with overcast skies, and led to the first victory ever on the World Cup circuit for a male Czech skier – Jan Zabystřan, who started 29th.^[8] Odermatt, the only skier among the first ten starters to finish in the top ten, was second and regained the discipline lead over Kriechmayr, who started 13th and finished ninth.^[8] In the last race in the 2025 calendar year, which (as noted above) was the first World Cup race ever at Livigno (Italy), a potential all-Swiss podium (Alexis Monney, von Allmen, and Odermatt) was broken up by the first super-G victory ever from Austria's Marco Schwarz, an all-event competitor who had missed most of the prior two years due to a serious injury and a number of mishaps during recovery, but had won a giant slalom just six days prior at Alta Badia for his first victory in any discipline since his return.^[9]

The first super-G of 2026 was run at Wengen, Switzerland on 15 January, in bright sunshine, which led to melting snow, and the first racer down the course – Giovanni Franzoni of Italy – set the fastest time for his first World Cup win, with the other two podium finishers starting 4th (Stefan Babinsky of Austria, his first World Cup podium) and 8th (von Allmen) as the conditions continued to deteriorate.^[10] The following weekend at Kitzbühel, Austria, Odermatt barely edged his teammate von Allmen by 0.03 seconds for his 53rd career World Cup win, in what turned out to be a close race all the way down to Franzoni in 12th, just 0.66 seconds behind Odermatt.^[11] At the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics in Bormio (Italy), von Allman finally came out on top, winning the gold medal (his record-tying third), after three straight podiums in super-G without a victory, with discipline leader Odermatt picking up bronze and the 2022 silver medalist, Ryan Cochran-Siegle of the U.S., earning another silver.^[12]

After the Olympics, the race at Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) was cancelled due to persistent fog, which affected the course even after the start gate was lowered, and was rescheduled for 14 March at Courchevel (France), to precede the downhill and super-G already scheduled there on 14-15 March.^[13] However, the rescheduled race at Courchevel also had to be canceled due to continuing heavy snowfall and fog, and this time it was not rescheduled and thus canceled, leaving Odermatt with a 158-point lead with only 200 points remaining.^[14] The original super-G scheduled for Courchevel, which was to take place the next day, also had to be canceled after the snowfall continued overnight until after 6 AM, which left the course with a powder covering of dead snow that was unsuitable for racing, thus giving Odermatt the discipline title for the fourth straight season.^[15]

The World Cup finals in the discipline are scheduled to take place on Sunday, 22 March 2026 on the Olympiabakken course at Kvitfjell, near Lillehammer, Norway.^[1] Only the top 25 skiers in the World Cup super-G discipline and the winner of the 2026 FIS Junior World Championships in the discipline (Victor Haghighat of France), plus any skiers who have scored at least 500 points in the World Cup overall classification for the season, will be eligible to compete in the final, and only the top 15 will earn World Cup points. None of the 500-point skiers chose to enter, so the starting field was all 25 qualifiers plus Haghighat, or 26. Dominik Paris of Italy, who had won the downhill the day before, edged Kriechmayr by .07 seconds to capture the speed double at finals, although Kriechmayr finished second for the season behind Odermatt and his teammate Raphael Haaser, who was third on the day, was also third for the season.^[16]

• 2026 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's summary rankings
• 2026 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's overall
• 2026 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's downhill
• 2026 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's giant slalom
• 2026 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's slalom
• World Cup scoring system