LAAX OPEN 2025 – Olympic champs Eileen Gu (CHN) & Birk Ruud (NOR) win Freeski Slopestyle contest | FIS World Cup
The LAAX OPEN 2025 presented by Zalando takes place from January 14th to 18th. World and Olympic Champions, X-Games winners and former LAAX OPEN champions battle it out for the coveted titles. This year marks the 10th consecutive edition of this world-renowned freestyle event.
Friday was a perfect bluebird day with perfect conditions for the Freeski Slopestyle finals. 24-years old Birk Ruud (NOR), current Big Air Olympic champion and 2023 Slopestyle World Champion, put down a perfect second run in the Finals and was able to defend his 2024 LAAX OPEN title. In the women’s Slopestyle Freeski competition, 21-years old Eileen Gu (CHN), two-times gold medal winner at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, secured her first ever LAAX OPEN win!
Results:
| Slopestyle Freeski Men | Slopestyle Freeski Women |
| 1| Birk Ruud (NOR) – 85.54 points | 1| Eileen Gu (CHN) – 81.22 points |
| 2| Mac Forehand (USA) – 83.69 points | 2| Megan Oldham (CAN) – 72.80 points |
| 3| Alex Hall (USA) – 81.62 points | 3| Mathilde Gremaud (SUI) – 72.59 points |
The LAAX OPEN 2025 presented by Zalando (official FIS World Cup) hosts two sport disciplines: snowboarding (Slopestyle & Halfpipe) and freesking (Slopestyle).
Europe’s most important snowboard freestyle event takes place for the 10th time in a row on the Crap Sogn Gion mountain at 2,252 metres above sea level – on which the mountain station is emblazoned like a galactic spaceship, the GALAAXY.
CHF 210,000 in prize money is up for grabs for the best of the best but who will win out of Olympic champions, world champions, newcomers – about 300 riders from 25 countries are keen to finish at the top at the tour’s most favourite event.
