Looking ahead to the 2023/24 SBX World Cup calendar
Jun 05, 2023·Snowboard Cross
Today we’re looking ahead at the final calendar to be revealed ahead of the 2023/24 FIS Snowboard World Cup season, and with 13 individual races and two mixed team events hitting 10 venues in nine countries on three continents - including four brand-new venues in Switzerland, Georgia, Turkey and Lithuania - next winter’s Snowboard Cross World Cup is shaping up to be an epic one, indeed.
We’ll kick things off once again next season at Les Deux Alpes, the French resort that made its SBX World Cup debut in 2022/23 with a snowy but exciting first showing. We’ll be keeping our fingers crossed for some sunny weather for our return next season, where action will be taking place from 01-02 December.
After that it’s a quick hop east through the Alps to Cervinia, where the legendary Italian resort will host SBX World Cup action for the sixth time in the past seven seasons, with competition slated to take place under the Matterhorn from 15-16 December.
With Cervinia in the books we’ll take a holiday break until late January, when we return with the first SBX World Cup of 2024 in one of the most highly anticipated new venues on tour, as from the 25th to the 26th we’ll be on site in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
The St. Moritz competition will be the first World Cup competition at the future Engadine St. Moritz 2025 FIS Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships cross venue, and excitement is high for what one of the world’s premier snowsport resorts will bring to the table ahead of their turn as World Champs hosts in 2025.
From there we continue with on with the new World Cup venues in a return to Georgia, where the 2023 World Championships host nation will showcase another gem of their epic mountain ranges with back-to-back races hitting Gudauri from 02-04 February.
After that it’s a trip across the continental divide to Asia, where Turkey’s Kayseri resort is slated to host both individual and mixed team competitions from 09-10 February. This one is currently listed as “to be confirmed,” so stay tuned for more updates closer to the season.
Finally, the fourth of four new venues set to make their World Cup debut in 2023/24 is Lithuania’s Vilnius, with competition scheduled for 17-18 February. While this one is also listed as “to be confirmed” for the time-being, hopes are high and progress is moving well towards locking in what would be the first-ever FIS Snowboard World Cup event hosting turn for the country of Lithuania.
With Vilnius closing out an exciting January and February of new venues, it’s on to a jam-packed month of March, where we’ll hit the homestretch of the 2023/24 season with visits to three legendary European resorts and one Canadian newcomer that has already taken its place amongst the finest snowboard cross venues on the planet.
To start the final month of the season we’ll return to the highest peak in Spain for the Sierra Nevada World Cup, which will once again feature back-to-back races from 01-03 March.
Then it’s on to Italy and the future home of snowboard cross competition at the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, with Cortina d’Ampezzo set to play host to SBX World Cup action for the third-straight season from 08-09 March.
Following the Cortina competition we’ll make a hotly anticipated return to Austria, with the hosts in Montafon stoked to remind everyone of why they’re one of the longest-running SBX World Cup hosts on the planet after a 2022/23 season where competition there had to be cancelled due to weather circumstances. We’ll see both individual and mixed-team competitions at the future home of the 2027 World Championships taking place from 15-16 March.
After that it’s on to the final competition of the season and our lone North American stop of the winter, as we’ll once again be closing things out at Canada’s Mont St. Anne from 22-24 March with back-to-back races.
This past season Mont St. Anne thrilled athletes and fans alike with a standout course and some of the most exciting races of the season in their World Cup debut. With so much to build off after that first showing, expectations for this years races is already sky-high. Quite simply, we can’t wait to be back in Quebec.
Needless to say, there’s a whole lot to look forward to for the 2023/24 FIS Snowboard Cross World Cup season, and even though summer 2023 is just kicking into gear we are more than ready to get back into it.
Six months to go!
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