NZ Alpine Ski Racing

10/24/2026

Solid first race for Alice! 👏🙏
Next race- Killington 🇺🇸 November 28. 💪

10/22/2026

Saturday night action.
Get ready.
Let’s go Alice. 🇳🇿🌟💪

Alice Robinson is kicking off the Northern Hemisphere season overnight tomorrow in Sölden! 🇦🇹

After a great Southern season of training for Alice we are excited to see her back between the gates especially back where she won her first ever World Cup! 🏆

Live links below!

Run 1 at 9pm NZT
https://www.youtube.com/live/E4Pd4AbPxpA?si=LgcyCMnAcWKk4CJ1

Run 2 at 12am NZT
https://www.youtube.com/live/AgFYdWSirOw?si=jrejPUoFltM-t1H8

09/08/2026

And it’s a wrap for FIS ANCs 2027.

With the Australian races cancelled due to lack of snow at Thredbo it was up to NZSki to run the series.

Challenging weather and variable surfaces limited races to a total of 3 GS for men and 2 for women and 3 slaloms for each gender( two at Hutt, one Coronet).

In this week’s series Coronet Peak competed hard with Hutt to see who could provide the widest range of weather, with Coronet conditions ranging from sleet and poor vis and gusts causing wind- hold, to intense sunshine and double degree temps!

Kudos to the ROC, NZSki and volunteers with the final day of racing featuring 2 Men’s GS races down Hurdle in one day, with over 60 competitors in each,showing what can be achieved with planning and collaboration.

Huge Congratulations to the ANC yellow bib winners- a huge achievement in a highly competitive field!

Slalom
Molly Butler 🇬🇧
Christoph Meissl 🇦🇹

Giant Slalom
Arianne Forget 🇨🇦
Andrej Drukarov 🇱🇹

And to the Australasian Yellow bib winners

Slalom
Madison Hoffman 🇦🇺
Henry Heaydon 🇦🇺

Giant Slalom
Alaska Speedy 🇳🇿
Hugh McAdam 🇦🇺

Fantastic to see a Kiwi in the mix!
Alaska also almost making the GS podium with a sixth place finish at Coronet👏🤩🌟
Other notable New Zealand results at Coronet Peak - Toby Jackson 8th place and Mathilda Watterson 14th in slalom.

10 Kiwi athletes gained valuable ANC points - well done to Mikayla Smyth, Alaska Speedy, Mathilda Watterson, Charlotte Wiggins,Ruby Fullerton, Isabel Watterson, Alec Jackson,Toby Jackson, Sam Hadley, and Calder Bain. 🎉👍🥳👏🤩🌟

A special thanks to the many volunteers spending long hours on the hill, often in fairly atrocious conditions- legendary start ref Julia Bentley and finish ref Graham Saunders as standouts! 🙏

Thanks also to Nigel and team at NZ Ski, the ROC, Brenner and his crew and to all coaches athletes and supporters for coming! We hope to see you all back next year! 💪🤞

Photo- Christoff Meissl and Molly Butler-

09/02/2026

Massive congratulations to our new 2026 NZ Slalom Champions 🥇🏆🌟well done to
Mikayla Smyth and Jesse Mutton 😍🤩👏

Both fought hard in tough conditions with wind gusts strong enough to put the lift on hold, a spring- like surface, and challenging courses that got the better of many.

Fantastic to see Mikayla making a strong comeback after missing last years NZ winter due injury, and Jesse clearly loving the return to his race boots after spending much of the winter coaching. 🤩👏💪🥳

Congratulations also to our Overall NZ National Champions ( combined results from NC GS and SL) : Mathilda Watterson and Calder Bain 🏅🎉💪🏆😁

And to Great Britain’s outstanding Carrick- Smith boys for making the men’s SL podium a family affair. 👏👏👏🥇🥈🥉

Luca impressively set the pace from bib 1 run 1 with a blisteringly fast first run and charged hard run 2 maintaining his pace despite starting 30th, still achieving the fastest run 2 time. 🤩👏🏆🥇🌟wow!

Women’s Slalom podium
🥇Aline Danioth- Switzerland
🥈Molly Butler- Great Britain
🥉Phoebe Heaydon- Australia

Men’s Slalom podium
🥇Luca Carrick- Smith Great Britain
🥈Zak Carrick- Smith Great Britain
🥉Freddy Carrick- Smith Great Britain

NZ National Championship Slalom Podium- women
🥇Mikayla Smyth
🥈Mathilda Watterson
🥉Charlotte Wiggins and Isabel Watterson

NZ National Championship Slalom Podium- men
🥇Jesse Mutton
🥈Calder Bain
🥉Flynn O’Reilly

Overall National Champions
- Mathilda Watterson and Calder Bain

Photos-
SL women’s podium
NZ women’s SL podium
SL men’s podium
NZ men’s SL podium
NZ overall champions

09/01/2026

Huge congratulations to our 2026 New Zealand GS National Champions -

Alaska Speedy and Toby Jackson

and National Junior ( U21) GS Champions- Also Alaska and Toby 🏆🏅🤩🥳🎉💪😊🏆👏🏅

Also to Overall ( Combined SL and GS) National Junior Champions- Mathilda Watterson and Roman Orlowski.🏆🏅👏👍

After a day’s delay for high winds, the weather gods held it together for Coronet Peak to hold the NZ National Championships GS and National Junior ( U21) Championships events.

Colder temps and wind helped the surface firm up for fantastic slope conditions.
Kiwi course setters Willis Feasey and Angus Rose’s courses held up really well for the 120 competitors.
Thanks to Brenner and team for a well run day. 👍

Congratulations to overall podium winners

Women’s-
🥇Ariane Forget- Canada
🥈Faye Buff- Switzerland
🥉Victoria Palla- Great Britain

Men’s-
🥇Storm Hagen- Norway
🥈Andre Drukarov- Lithuania
🥉Adam Zampa- Slovakia

And to NZ podiums
National Champions and NJC women’s
🥇Alaska Speedy
🥈Mathilda Watterson
🥉Charlotte Wiggins

National Champions NZ men’s
🥇Toby Jackson
🥈Sam Hadley
🥉Calder Bain

NJC NZ men’s
🥇Toby Jackson
🥈Oscar Chesterman
🥉Roman Orlowski

Best of luck to all for the National SL championships tomorrow!

Photos- NZ women’s NC/ NJC GS podium, NZ men’s NC and NJC podium, overall NJC podium.

08/24/2026

ANCs and FIS races cancelled due to lack of quality snow.

08/21/2026

First round of the FIS ANCS at Mt Hutt saw a world class field of international competitors toughing it out with spring- like surfaces and variable conditions.
Mt Hutt behaved very reasonably with no closed days, but only one GS race for each gender was possible with delays, visibility and snow conditions sadly forcing cancellations

Congrats to all race winners-
Elizabeth Bocock USA GS 🏆
Storm Hagen NOR GS 🌟
Christoph Meissl AUS Slalom 👏
Jonas Skabar FRA Slalom 🏅
Liv Moritz USA Slalom 🏆
Molly Butler GBR Slalom 🌟

Fantastic to see a Kiwi on the podium with Alec Jackson smashing out a blistering first run , finishing second, and holding his composure run two to finish in fourth overall. 🤩💪👏👍

And fabulous to see a total of 27 New Zealand racers competing - 14 women and 13 men. 👍👏😍.

Tough conditions for the junior FIS racers, with the 2010s competing in their first ever FIS GS with a daunting yet inspiring field of competitors. The slalom proved challenging with the corrugated surface and course set getting the better of some despite a tenacious fight!

Unfortunately the Thredbo series is now off due lack of snow there- so next round is Coronet Peak kicking off September 4.

Meantime good luck to everyone competing in the upcoming NZ GS NJCs at Cardrona and at the National Champs. ☃️

Photo- podium men’s slalom day 1.

08/11/2026

First FIS race for the season completed!Congrats to our new NJC Champions
Izzy and Roman! 😍🎉💪🥳🤩

08/07/2026

FIS Thredbo ANCs Entries also open

For NZ athletes these need to be submitted by Snow Sports - closing August 16.

Payment not needed until 22nd.

https://www.thredbo.com.au/events/2026/fis-australia-new-zealand-cup/

08/07/2026

Entries for FIS Mt HUTT ANCs are open-

Closing date AUGUST 10…

Entries to Kenzie : [email protected]

Payment link and info here: https://shop.mthutt.co.nz/shop/product/413