Muir and Hall top Tignes slopestyle World Cup season finale as Tabanelli, Svancer win overall Crystal Globes
Mar 14, 2025·Freeski Park & Pipe)
Great Britain’s Kirsty Muir and U.S. skier Alex Hall have capped off the 2024/25 FIS Freeski World Cup season with slopestyle wins at the Tignes Mountain Shaker as Flora Tabanelli and Matej Svancer claimed the overall Crystal Globes.
Scottish skier Kirsty Muir was the first to claim victory at Tignes (FRA) on Friday after topping the 10-woman final thanks to her first run score of 77.98.
The 20-year-old took to the slopestyle course with ease in the first run to put down a switch left bio 900 blunt, then a right 720 safety, then a left 270 continuing 270 on rail one, then a switch left 270 to forward, a right slide to frontside 450 off, followed by a left cork 900 tailgrab on the final booter.
Australia’s Abi Harrigan was runner-up on 75.41 to claim her first World Cup top-three finish, while 20-year-old Ruby Star Andrews (NZL) was third on 72.75, marking her third World Cup career podium and the first since 2023.
“I’m just so hyped and so stoked for the other girls; Ruby and Abi absolutely smashing it,” said Muir.
Her victory on Friday marks a remarkable return to form, as the 20-year-old only returned to World Cup competition in February following more than a year away due to a knee injury.
The Scottish skier also topped qualifications on Wednesday and finished seventh in the women’s big air final on Thursday night.
Despite not qualifying for Friday’s final, France’s Tess Ledeux claimed the slopestyle Crystal Globe after topping the women’s standings on 218 points, and the 17-time World Cup winner was on hand to receive her trophy on Friday despite suffering a heavy fall in Thursday night’s big air competition.
Capping off a dominant World Cup season in which she earned seven podiums in 11 starts, Italian teenager Flora Tabanelli took the overall women’s Park & Pipe Crystal Globe on Friday with 540 points across big air and slopestyle.
On Thursday night the 17-year-old won her maiden Crystal Globe in big air after an impressive win in the discipline’s last contest of the World Cup season. With her older brother Miro, 20, wnining Thursday’s men’s event, the Tabanelli siblings became the first sister-brother duo to stand atop a FIS Freeski World Cup podium at the same competition.
In men’s slopestyle, the USA’s Alex Hall was best of the men’s field in Friday’s final after posting a second run score of 90.10.
The U.S. skier took the win following a high-risk second run that began with a left double cork 1620 leading Japan, followed by a switch right tail butter 540 bring back to 360 mute, then a switch right side back swap to 270 out, a right 270 Tokyo drift to right slide backside 450 out, a switch left Tokyo drift 270 on backside 810 out, before finishing with a switch left double cork 1440 mute.
Hall’s performance pushed Switzerland’s Andri Ragettli to second place on 84.43, while Norway’s Sebastian Schjerve was third on 83.48.
“I was really stoked on those rails. Those were some of the hardest rails I’ve ever done in competition,” said Hall.
“I was stoked that I just risked it all and it worked out.”
The 26-year-old admitted that luck and weather was on his side compared to the other finalists, who sometimes mistook the snow for the sky as they spun out of their tricks due to the flat light conditions.
“We weren’t quite sure if we were going to get it in the good weather,” said Hall.
“I got really lucky on my second run, I dropped it when it was still sunny and I was about the last one when it was sunny, so all the boys got the flat light, which is a bummer.”
With Friday's win, Hall ends the slopestyle World Cup season on a total of 282 points, giving him the slopestyle Crystal Globe.
Austria’s Matej Svancer did not compete in Tignes due to a bruised heel but won the overall men’s Park & Pipe Crystal Globe after finishing the season with 472 points, just ahead of New Zealander Luca Harrington’s 470 points.
While Harrington finished 10th in Friday’s 16-man final, on Thursday night the New Zealander was third on the Tignes big air podium and won the big air Globe with a season total of four podiums.
With Friday’s finals wrapping up the 2024/25 FIS Freeski World Cup season, athletes will now turn their attention to the upcoming FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeki World Championships in Engadin (SUI) between 17 and 30 March.
QUICK LINKS
Tignes Slopestyle World Cup data page (start lists, live scoring, results)
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