Tabanelli siblings top Tignes big air World Cup season finale, younger Tabanelli and Harrington claim Crystal Globe
Mar 13, 2025·Freeski Park & Pipe)
Italian teenager Flora Tabanelli took home the women’s freeski big air Crystal Globe on Thursday after winning the discipline’s season finale in Tignes alongside older brother Miro Tabanelli.
Seventeen-year-old Flora was on track to claim her first Crystal Globe regardless of her performance in the women’s big air final in Tignes (FRA) on Thursday; however, the teenager put an exclamation mark on her season by topping the field with a combined score of 187.75
The Italian was in second place behind French skier Tess Ledeux after the first run until Tabanelli put down her own left double cork 1260 mute and received a score of 95.00 from the judges, moving her into first place.
“I’m stoked to have landed my last two tricks.”
Twenty-three-year-old Ledeux finished six points behind Flora in second place on 181.25 after crashing heavily at the end of her third and final attempt. The skier required medical attention and was unable to attend the awards ceremony.
Third place went to Anni Karava of Finland, who posted a combined score of 175.25 to claim her third podium of the 2024/25 FIS Freeski World Cup season.
Seventeen-year-old Flora is the youngest freeskier in FIS history to claim a Crystal Globe.
The Italian ended the big air World Cup season with six top-three finishes out of six starts, including two outright victories and three as runner-up.
In the men’s competition, 20-year-old Miro Tabanelli scored the first World Cup victory of his career with a standout performance, earning a score of 94.75 for his first run left double cork 2160 stalefish, then followed it up in run two with a switch left double cork 1980 tailgrab to post a combined score of 188.25.
“I just went for the switch 2160 and I really wanted it," said Miro.
U.S. skier Mac Forehand was runner-up on 187.50 points, while Luca Harrington (NZL) finished less than a point behind with 187.00 to take third place and the men’s big air Crystal Globe.
Going into Tignes, the New Zealander was second overall in the men’s big air World Cup standings before Thursday’s result gave him the historic Crystal Globe win – the first in FIS Freeski history for New Zealand.
Harrington was absent from the big air season-opener in Chur (SUI) in October but went on to claim a total of four podiums, including back-to-back wins in Klagenfurt and Kreischberg in January.
For Miro Tabanelli, Thursday’s result is his second World Cup podium finish this season after he was runner-up in Beijing (CHN). With his first place finish on Thursday, Tabanelli moved himself into third place on the 2024/25 Big Air World Cup overall rankings behind Harrington and second overall finisher Matej Svancer (AUT), who was forced to sit out competition in Tignes due to a bruised heel.
At the 2025 X Games in Aspen in January, Miro claimed big air gold ahead of Harrington. Flora also won X Games gold there in Aspen, while Ledeux took bronze.
At just 17 and 20 years old respectively, and with the upcoming Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games on home snow, Flora and Miro Tabanelli have shown they will be the ones to watch when the Games begin in less than a year’s time in Italy.
With 540 points across all competitions this season, Flora is also set to claim the FIS Freeski overall Crystal Globe by week’s end in Tignes.
On the men’s side of things the Globe battle is significantly tighter, as just two points separate overall Park & Pipe leader Matej Svancer (AUT) and Harrington, on 472 and 470 points respectively.
However, with Svancer not competing in the slopestyle finals on Friday and Harrington a finalist in reach of the points needed to surpass his Austrian counterpart, the New Zealander has an excellent chance of claiming the overall Globe by the end of slopestyle competition in Tignes on Friday.
The slopestyle finals in Tignes on Friday will wrap up competition for the 2024/25 FIS Freeski World Cup season.
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Tignes Big Air World Cup data page (start lists, live scoring, results)
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