Levi slalom: Aicher wins her first World Cup slalom, 1–2 for Head skis

The north slope of Levi fell in Lapland, Finland, with race gates and the chairlift, in January 2023. Photo: DanielMichaelPerry via Wikimedia Commons, CC0

Emma Aicher of Germany won the first World Cup slalom of the 2026-27 season in Levi, Finland, on Saturday 14 November 2026. It was her first World Cup win in slalom. Lara Colturi of Albania finished second, 0.43 seconds behind, and Katharina Truppe of Austria third, 0.50 seconds behind. Aicher and Colturi both race on Head skis. For the first time since the 2014/15 season, the Levi slalom winner is not Mikaela Shiffrin or Petra Vlhova.

• Aicher led after both runs and won in 1:52.62, the day after her 23rd birthday.
• It is her sixth World Cup win; the first five were downhill and super-G races.
• Colturi was second on Head skis, in her first season on the brand after Blizzard.
• Truppe moved from fifth to third with the fastest second run, 56.33 seconds.
• Head skis carried 12 of the 27 finishers, Rossignol 9.

Aicher set the fastest first run in 55.74 seconds and started the second run 0.36 seconds ahead of Colturi. She kept the lead to the finish and won by 0.43 seconds, according to the official FIS result list. The first run started at 10:00 CET and the second at 13:00 CET.

The FIS database lists five earlier World Cup wins for Aicher: two downhills and three super-G races, from Kvitfjell in March 2025 to Soldeu in February 2026. In the 2025-26 season she finished on the slalom podium five times without a win, starting with third place in Levi on 15 November 2025. Aicher turned 23 on Friday 13 November. Colturi turns 20 on Sunday 15 November, SciareMag noted.

Truppe, 30, was fifth after the first run. Her second run was the fastest of the day and gave her the eighth World Cup podium of her career, ORF reported. Zrinka Ljutic of Croatia was third after the first run and finished fourth.

Madison Hoffman of Australia started with bib 57 and finished eighth, the best result of her career according to SciareMag. Camille Rast of Switzerland, fourth after the first run, made a mistake in the second and fell back to eleventh.

The FIS result list names the ski brand of every racer. Of the 27 skiers who finished both runs, 12 raced on Head, 9 on Rossignol, 3 on Atomic, 2 on Völkl and 1 on Fischer.

Two brand switches from the summer were part of the story. Colturi raced on Blizzard skis last season and is on Head this season; second place in Levi is her second podium of the season after second place in the Sölden giant slalom on 24 October, SportNews.bz wrote. Paula Moltzan of the USA, who won that Sölden race on her new Van Deer skis, did not finish the first run in Levi.

Shiffrin did not start. She skips the first two slalom weekends of this season and returns at Killington on 28–29 November. Before this race, Shiffrin or Vlhova had won the last 14 women's slaloms in Levi, according to the FIS statistics for the race. The last other winner was Tina Maze of Slovenia in the 2014/15 season. skinews.ch counts the same 14 races since 2016.

Vlhova, who has won six times in Levi, finished sixteenth on Rossignol skis in her first World Cup slalom after a long injury break. The next women's slalom is in Gurgl, Austria, on the weekend of 21–22 November 2026.

The skis in Levi are race skis, built to the FIS rules for World Cup slalom. All four brands on the top-10 list also make a slalom ski for groomed runs, with a short radius of about 12–13 m. It suits skiers who want quick short turns on groomed, hard snow.

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