Historic Alpine World Cup event to make debut at Copper next season

The Stifel U.S. Alpine ski team and Copper Mountain Resort on Tuesday announced that men’s and women’s World Cup ski racing will be hosted at Copper for the first time.

Taking place from Nov. 27-30, 2025, the Stifel Copper Cup, an Audi FIS Ski World Cup, will showcase women’s giant slalom and slalom events alongside men’s super-G and giant slalom races.

For the past eight years, Vermont’s Killington Resort has hosted the women’s World Cup. However, due to the replacement of the resort’s Superstar lift, which services the venue, next season’s event will take place at Copper. The women’s race is expected to return to Killington in 2026.

The series of races at Copper will be the first stop of the men’s World Cup season in North America and will be the sole women’s World Cup race in the U.S. for the 2024-25 season.

Additionally, the competition holds particular significance as athletes build momentum toward the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics, which will take place two months after the races.

“Although I’ll miss racing at Killington this Thanksgiving, I am so excited that World Cup ski racing is coming to Copper Mountain for men and women,” two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin said in a statement provided by U.S. Ski and Snowboard. “It’s so exciting to see Copper as a true World Cup race venue, and I’m particularly excited because it’s so close to home (that) I can sleep in my own bed and my community can come and experience it.”

The event marks the first year that Copper has been designated as the primary venue for an Alpine World Cup. Copper previously stepped in to host three World Cup races in 1976, 1999, and 2001 when the original venues chosen could not fulfill their role as hosts due to snow conditions.