FIS Snowboard World Cup – Big Air Kreischberg 2025: Preview, schedule, and how to watch live

Athletes to watch at the FIS Snowboard Big Air World Cup Kreischberg

Women

Fukada Mari (JPN): 18-year-old Fukada Mari continues to stake her claim as the preeminent talent in women’s snowboarding as she leads the World Cup standings with 260 points. The Japanese has racked up three podium finishes from three events, including a superb victory in Chur in October. After finishing second overall in 2023-24, Fukada controls her own destiny heading into the final two events of the season—but she’ll need to be on top of her game to ward off Mia Brookes (GBR), who is right on her tail with 245 points.

Regardless of her final position, Fukada has already shown why she’s one of Japan’s medal favourites for the Big Air competition at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games.

Mia Brookes (GBR): For those unacquainted with Great Britain’s snowboarding phenom Mia Brookes, in 2023, she became the youngest world champion in snowboarding history when she earned slopestyle gold in Georgia, aged just 16. But the Cheshire native is equally adept in Big Air and has piled the pressure on Fukada with back-to-back World Cup wins; her final trick in Klagenfurt last week (a cab 1440 melon) scored her a massive 95.75 to finish ahead of the Japanese and close the gap in the women’s standings to just 15 points.

And while she trails Fukada in Big Air, Brookes is second in the slopestyle competition and first in the Overall Park&Pipe category. If she can maintain her form in the closing stages of the World Cup, Brookes will be in line to receive a considerable amount of silverware.