The women's giant slalom in the 2025 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup is scheduled to include ten events, including the final.[1] The season opened in Sölden, Austria on 26 October 2024.
The season will be interrupted for the Alpine Skiing World Championships, this time in Saalbach, Austria during 4-16 February 2025.[2] The championship in women's giant slalom is scheduled for Thursday, 13 February.
The first giant slalom of the season, scheduled as usual on the Rettenbach glacier in Sölden, Austria in October, was won by 2024 discipline runner-up (and 2020 discipline champion) Federica Brignone, who rallied from third place after the opening run with the seventh-fastest time in the second run to overtake both of the racers ahead of her.[3] With the victory, Brignone, who is 34, became the oldest woman ever to win a World Cup race, surpassing Elizabeth Görgl of Austria, who won her last race on the World Cup circuit in December 2014 at 33, two months before turning 34. Because this was the first race of the season, neither defending champion Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland nor perennial contender Petra Vlhová of Slovakia had recovered from prior-season surgeries sufficiently to be able to compete, although Gut-Behrami entered the race but did not start. Before the end of November, the third and fourth giant slaloms of the season, scheduled at Tremblant, Quebec, Canada, were cancelled due to lack of snow, pending rescheduling.[4]
In the second giant slalom of the year at Mikaela Shiffrin's "home" course in Killington, Vermont, USA, Shiffrin was trying for her 100th World Cup victory, having won number 99 in her last race. As in Sölden, she held the lead going into the second run. However, while still in the lead shortly after the midpoint of the course, she suffered a hard crash into the fencing, which resulted in her being stretchered off the course; the crash handed the win to Sara Hector of Sweden, who thus took over the overall lead in the discipline for the season.[5]
The World Cup finals in the discipline are scheduled to take place on Tuesday, 25 March 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho, USA.[6] Only the top 25 skiers in the World Cup giant slalom discipline and the winner of the Junior World Championship in the discipline, plus any skiers who have scored at least 500 points in the World Cup overall classification for the season, are eligible to compete in the final, and only the top 15 earn World Cup points.
| Venue | WC | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skier |  |  |  | | |  | | |  | | Total | ||
| 1 | Sara Hector | 16 | 100 | xx | 116 | ||||||||
| 2 | Federica Brignone | 100 | DNF2 | xx | 100 | ||||||||
| 3 | Zrinka Ljutić | 13 | 80 | xx | 93 | ||||||||
| 4 |  Thea Louise Stjernesund | 40 | 50 | xx | 90 | ||||||||
| 5 | Camille Rast | 22 | 60 | xx | 82 | ||||||||
| 6 |  Alice Robinson | 80 | DNF1 | xx | 80 | ||||||||
| 7 | 36 | 40 | xx | 76 | |||||||||
| 8 | Katie Hensien | 50 | 20 | xx | 70 | ||||||||
| 9 | Paula Moltzan | 24 | 45 | xx | 69 | ||||||||
| 10 | Julia Scheib | 60 | DNF1 | xx | 60 | ||||||||
| 11 | Mikaela Shiffrin | 45 | DNF2 | xx | 45 | ||||||||
| 12 |  Lara Colturi | 15 | 29 | xx | 44 | ||||||||
| 13 | Neja Dvornik | DNQ | 36 | xx | 36 | ||||||||
| 14 | Ricarda Haaser | DNF2 | 32 | xx | 32 | ||||||||
| 32 | DNF1 | xx | 32 | ||||||||||
| 16 | 6 | 24 | xx | 30 | |||||||||
| 17 | DNS | 29 | xx | 29 | |||||||||
| Mina Fürst Holtmann | 29 | DNF1 | xx | 29 | |||||||||
| 19 | Wendy Holdener | 6 | 22 | xx | 28 | ||||||||
| 20 | Lena Dürr | 26 | DNQ | xx | 26 | ||||||||
| 21 | Estelle Alphand | 8 | 16 | xx | 24 | ||||||||
| Ana Bucik Jogan | 10 | 14 | xx | 24 | |||||||||
| 11 | 13 | xx | 24 | ||||||||||
| 24 | Lara Gut-Behrami | DNS | 20 | xx | 20 | ||||||||
| 20 | DNQ | xx | 20 | ||||||||||
| 26 | Britt Richardson | 14 | 4 | xx | 18 | ||||||||
| Stephanie Brunner | 18 | DNF1 | xx | 18 | |||||||||
| 28 |  Clarisse Brèche | DNS | 15 | xx | 15 | ||||||||
| 9 | 7 | xx | 16 | ||||||||||
| 30 | Emma Aicher | DNQ | 12 | xx | 12 | ||||||||
| Giorgia Collomb | DNQ | 12 | xx | 12 | |||||||||
| Simone Wild | 3 | 9 | xx | 12 | |||||||||
| Clara Direz | 12 | DNF2 | xx | 12 | |||||||||
| 34 | Ilaria Ghisalberti | DNQ | 10 | xx | 10 | ||||||||
| 35 | Elisabeth Bocock | DNS | 8 | xx | 8 | ||||||||
| 36 | Kristin Lysdahl | DNQ | 7 | xx | 7 | ||||||||
| Fabiana Dorigo | 7 | DNQ | xx | 7 | |||||||||
| 38 | Lara Della Mea | DNS | 5 | xx | 5 | ||||||||
| 39 | 4 | DNQ | xx | 4 | |||||||||
| 40 | Cassidy Gray | DNF2 | DNQ | xx | 0 | ||||||||
| DNS | DNQ | xx | 0 | ||||||||||
| Roberta Melesi | DNQ | DNQ | xx | 0 | |||||||||
| Elisa Platino | DNQ | DNQ | xx | 0 | |||||||||
 Magdalena Luczak | DNS | DNF1 | xx | 0 | |||||||||
| Mélanie Meillard | DNQ | DNQ | xx | 0 | |||||||||
| Lisa Nyberg | DNQ | DNQ | xx | 0 | |||||||||
| DNQ | DNS | xx | 0 | ||||||||||
| Hilma Lövblom | DNQ | DNF1 | xx | 0 | |||||||||
| Jasmina Suter | DNQ | DNS | xx | 0 | |||||||||
 Adriana Jelinkova | DNQ | DNF1 | xx | 0 | |||||||||
| Caitlin McFarlane | DNQ | DNQ | xx | 0 | |||||||||
| Marte Monsen | DNF1 | DNS | xx | 0 | |||||||||
 Erika Pykalainen | DNQ | DNF1 | xx | 0 | |||||||||
| DNS | xx | 0 | |||||||||||
| Sofia Goggia | DNS | xx | 0 | ||||||||||
| AJ Hurt | DNS | xx | 0 | ||||||||||
| Kajsa Vickhoff Lie | DNS | xx | 0 | ||||||||||
| References | [7] | [8] |