2024-2025 Men's Alpine Ski World Cup Downhill Season Review

Marco Odermatt won the Downhill title with a total of 605 points. Teammates Franjo Von Allmen (522) and Alexis Monney (327) finished second and third place in the Downhill standings.

Switzerland has dominated the Men's Downhill, securing 17 out of the 24 podium spots available. Odermatt and his teammates triumphed in six of the eight Downhill races this season. In the initial four races, Swiss skiers secured the top two positions. In Crans-Montana and during the second Downhill event in Kvitfjell, they achieved a clean sweep of the podium.

The speed season kicked off on December 6, 2024, at the Birds of Prey racetrack, with a big surprise in store. Justin Murisier secured his first Alpine Ski World Cup victory by winning the World Cup Downhill at Beaver Creek. Starting with bib number 3, Murisier skied a very solid run from top to bottom with hardly any mistakes. The 32-year-old Swiss skier previously achieved his only podium finish in the Giant Slalom in Alta Badia in 2020. His best Downhill result was 4th place in Bormio last season.

Swiss Teammate, Marco Odermatt, finished in second place, just 0.20 seconds behind.

Slovenian Miha Hrobat secured the third spot on the podium. This marked his first podium finish in the World Cup, with his previous best being seventh place in the Kitzbühel Downhill in 2023.

The 57th Saslong Classic in Val Gardena, the second Downhill of the season, closed with a big bang for the Swiss Team. Marco Odermatt led a 1-2 Swiss podium ahead of teammate Franjo von Allmen. Odermatt won the Downhill race thanks to a superb performance in the Ciaslat sector. It's the first victory for Switzerland on the Saslong racecourse in Val Gardena since Silvan Zurbriggen's victory in 2010.

Franjo Von Allmen finished in second place 0.45 seconds behind the winner. With his second place in Val Gardena, Von Allmen celebrated his first World Cup podium in the Downhill. In the 2023-2024 season, the 23-year-old talent achieved his first World Cup podium in the Super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Ryan Cochran-Siegle finished in third place 0.46 seconds behind Odematt, completing a perfect speed weekend for the US Team after Jared Goldberg's podium in the Super-G. It's Cochran-Siegle's third podium in the World Cup, the first one in almost four years, and the second one in Val Gardena after finishing in second place in the Downhill in 2020.

The third Downhill of the season ended with the third Swiss double podium. 24-year-old Alexis Monney with start number 19 won the Alpine Ski World Cup Downhill in Bormio. He finished 0.24 hundredths ahead of teammate Franjo von Allmen. Canadian Alexander Cameron rounded up the podium in third place 0.79 seconds behind the Swiss. His previous best World Cup result was 8th place in kitzbühel in 2024. He achieved his first podium and victory in Bormio.

The fourth Downhill event of the 2024-2025 winter season marked the Swiss team's fourth double victory. The Swiss Downhill skiers confirmed in Wengen their current dominance in the discipline on home turf. Marco Odermatt not only claimed his second victory of the season in the Downhill after his win in Val Gardena, but also gave the Swiss their fourth win in the fourth race of the Alpine Ski World Cup season.

He finished ahead of his teammate and Wengen's Super-G winner Franjo Von Allmen. Miha Hrobat from Slovenia rounded up the podium in third place 0.57 seconds behind Odermatt.

Odermatt smashes the course record. With a final time of 2:22.58, he is over a second faster than the Italian Kristian Ghedina, who set the previous record when he won in 1997 (2:24.34).

The 27-year-old broke another record and joined Franz Klammer and Beat Feuz as the only three to have triumphed on the Lauberhorn three times.

James Crawford secures his first Alpine Ski World Cup victory by winning the World Cup Downhill at the Streif in Kitzbühel. It's the fifth time a Canadian has won on the Streif and the first victory for the Canadian team in the Kitzbühel Downhill since Todd Brooker's victory in 1983.

This marked his fifth podium in the Alpine Ski World Cup and his first since securing second place in the Downhill event in Aspen in 2023.

It's the greatest win for 27-year-old Crawford after winning the Super-G gold at the 47th Alpine World Ski Championships in Courchevel-Méribel.

Alexis Monney secured second place, trailing by 0.08 seconds. Cameron Alexander, Crawford's teammate, completed the podium in third place, 0.22 seconds behind the winner. The last time two Canadians stood on the podium was in February 2012 when Jan Hudec won the Chamonix Downhill ahead of Romed Baumann and teammate Erik Guay.

Franjo Von Allmen, Downhill World Champion in Saalbach 2025, led a sweep of the podium in the Downhill event at Crans Montana, with Marco Odermatt and Alexis Monney finishing in second and third place, respectively.

The 23-year-old emerging talent achieved his first Downhill win in the Alpine Ski World Cup in the Swiss ski resort. 

He emerged as a notable contender among the favorites in Downhill for the upcoming seasons.

In the first of two Downhill events held in Kvitfjell, Dominik Paris celebrated his first victory of the season in the Downhill on one of his favorite courses in the Alpine Ski World Cup, with a lead of 32 hundredths of a second over Marco Odermatt. Paris won a Downhill on the Olympiabakken for the fourth time (2016, 2019, 2022, and 2025). Behind Odermatt, Stefan Rogentin, world champion Franjo von Allmen, and Alexis Monney confirmed the Swiss dominance in the Downhill with third to fifth places.

After Kvitfjell's win, the 35-year-old speed specialist joined Peter Müller in second place on the all-time Downhill winners list with 19 World Cup wins. Franz Klammer remains ahead with 25 victories.

Switzerland secures a podium clean sweep at the second Downhill Alpine Ski World Cup held in Kvitfjell, with Franjo Von Allmen claiming the top spot, Marco Odermatt finishing second, and Stefan Rogentin coming in third in the battle for victory. This marked the Swiss Team's second triple podium of the season, following Crans-Montana two weeks prior. Before this season, the Swiss Men’s ski team had only celebrated 13 triple victories.

Von Allmen won his third race of a breakout World Cup season.