Freeride World Tour

The Freeride World Tour, also referred to as the FWT Pro or simply the FWT, is an annual series of events in which freeride skiers and snowboarders compete for individual event wins, as well as the overall title of Freeride World Champion in their respective genders and disciplines. The events take place on off-piste terrain – ungroomed snow on steep slopes, often featuring areas of high exposure.

Freeride World Tour
Genre	Freeride skiing and snowboarding
Location(s)	Europe; occasionally in North America and Asia
Inaugurated	1996 (snowboard only) 2004 (ski and snowboard)
Founder	Nicolas Hale-Woods
Current champions	Marcus Goguen (ski men) Victor de le Rue (snowboard men) Justine Dufour-Lapointe (ski women) Noémie Equy (snowboard women)
Organized by	International Ski Federation (FIS)
Sponsors	Peak Performance
Website	www.freerideworldtour.com

The Freeride World Tour was founded in 1996 as the Verbier Extreme, and was a snowboard only contest until 2004. The first event series under the Freeride World Tour name took place in 2008. For the 2013 season, the Freeride World Tour merged with the Freeskiing World Tour and The North Face Masters of Snowboarding, combining all three tours under one global championship series.^[1]

A separate class of FWT Qualifier competitions provides the Tour with new rookies each season, with a small number of athletes from each division and region being selected to compete in FWT Challenger events. The top finishers after each Challenger circuit are invited to join the following season's Freeride World Tour.^[2] Limited wild card spots have historically been offered to established riders.^[3]

The FWT Junior circuit has had many competitions all over the world, as well as an invite-only FWT Junior World Championships held annually since 2012.

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation bought the Freeride World Tour in 2022.^[4]

Tour results

2025 Season

Location	Dates	Event Winners
		Ski Men	Snowboard Men	Ski Women	Snowboard Women
Baqueira Beret[5]	Jan 17	Ross Tester	Victor de Le Rue	Justine Dufour-Lapointe	Noémie Equy
Val Thorens[6]	Jan 29	Martin Bender	Enzo Nilo	Astrid Cheylus	Marion Haerty
Kicking Horse[7]	Feb 07	Marcus Goguen	Victor de Le Rue	Molly Armanino	Michaela Davis-Meehan
Georgia[8]	Mar 01	Marcus Goguen	Cody Bramwell	Zuzanna Witych	Noémie Equy
Fieberbrunn[9]	Mar 07	Cancelled[10]	Liam Rivera	Lily Bradley	Noémie Equy
Verbier[11]	Mar 20	WeiTien Ho	Cody Bramwell	Jenna Keller	Noémie Equy

Final Rankings[12]
Place	Ski Men	Snowboard Men	Ski Women	Snowboard Women
1st	Marcus Goguen	Victor de Le Rue	Justine Dufour-Lapointe	Noémie Equy
2nd	Martin Bender	Cody Bramwell	Jenna Keller	Michaela Davis-Meehan
3rd	Toby Rafford	Liam Rivera	Astrid Cheylus	Núria Castan Baron

2024 Season

Location	Dates	Event Winners
		Ski Men	Snowboard Men	Ski Women	Snowboard Women
Baqueira Beret	Cancelled due to insufficient snow[13]
Verbier[14]	Jan 27 - 28	Max Hitzig	Victor de Le Rue	Zuzanna Witych	Núria Castan Baron
Ordino Arcalís	Cancelled due to insufficient snow[15]
Kicking Horse[16]	Feb 14 - 20	Max Hitzig	Victor de Le Rue	Astrid Cheylus	Anna Martinez
Georgia	Mar 01 - 07	Marcus Goguen	Victor de Le Rue	Sybille Blanjean	Núria Castan Baron
Fieberbrunn[17]	Mar 12 - 18	Ben Richards	Victor de Le Rue	Astrid Cheylus	Erin Sauve
Verbier[18]	Mar 23 - 31	Marcus Goguen	Jonathan Penfield	Hedvig Wessel	Erin Sauve

Final Rankings[19]
Place	Ski Men	Snowboard Men	Ski Women	Snowboard Women
1st	Max Hitzig	Victor de Le Rue	Hedvig Wessel	Erin Sauve
2nd	Marcus Goguen	Jonathan Penfield	Astrid Cheylus	Núria Castan Baron
3rd	Ben Richards	Liam Rivera	Zuzanna Witych	Anna Martinez

2023 Season

Location	Dates	Event Winners
		Ski Men	Snowboard Men	Ski Women	Snowboard Women
Baqueira Beret[20]	Jan 27 - Feb 1	Max Palm	Michael Mawn	Addison Rafford	Katie Anderson
Ordino Arcalís[21]	Feb 1	Valentin Rainer	Ludovic Guillot-Diat	Justine Dufour-Lapointe	Katie Anderson
Kicking Horse[22]	Feb 16 - 21	Max Hitzig	Liam Rivera	Megane Betend	Michaela Davis-Meehan
Fieberbrunn[23]	Mar 10 - 16	Andrew Pollard	Jonathan Penfield	Justine Dufour-Lapointe	Katie Anderson
Verbier	Cancelled due to unsafe snow conditions[24]

Final Rankings[25]
Place	Ski Men	Snowboard Men	Ski Women	Snowboard Women
1st	Valentin Rainer	Ludovic Guillot-Diat	Justine Dufour-Lapointe	Katie Anderson
2nd	Maxime Chabloz	Jonathan Penfield	Molly Armanino	Anna Orlova
3rd	Andrew Pollard	Liam Rivera	Megane Betend	Estelle Rizzolio

2022 Season

Location	Dates	Event Winners
		Ski Men	Snowboard Men	Ski Women	Snowboard Women
Baqueira Beret[26]	Jan 21 - 27	Max Palm	Michael Mawn	Olivia McNeill	Erika Vikander
Ordino Arcalís[27]	Jan 29 - Feb 4	Maxime Chabloz	Blake Moller	Jessica Hotter	Tiphanie Perrotin
Kicking Horse[28]	Feb 11 - 16	Maxime Chabloz	Camille Armand	Lily Bradley	Erika Vikander
Fieberbrunn[29]	Mar 13 - 19	Carl Regnér Eriksson	Blake Moller	Jessica Hotter	Tiphanie Perrotin
Verbier[30]	Mar 25 - Apr 2	Maxime Chabloz	Blake Moller	Sybille Blanjean	Manuela Mandl

Final Rankings[31]
Place	Ski Men	Snowboard Men	Ski Women	Snowboard Women
1st	Maxime Chabloz	Blake Moller	Jessica Hotter	Tiphanie Perrotin
2nd	Carl Regnér Eriksson	Camille Armand	Hedvig Wessel	Erika Vikander
3rd	Ross Tester	Cody Bramwell	Olivia McNeill	Manuela Mandl

Tour locations

Key: X – Event Staged. C – Event cancelled. M – Event moved.

Location	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013[32]	2014[33]	2015[34]	2016[35]	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Baqueira Beret															X	X	C	X
Chamonix			X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Courmayeur					X	X	X
Crested Butte		X
Fieberbrunn		X		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Georgia																	X	X
Haines								X	X	X
Hakuba											M[N 1]	X	X	C
Kicking Horse											X	X	X	C	X	X	X	X
Kirkwood				X		X	X
Mammoth Mountain	X
Ordino Arcalís								X	X	X	X	X[N 2]	X	X	X	X	C
Revelstoke					X	X	X
Røldal					X
Snowbird		X
Sochi	X	X	X	X
Palisades Tahoe		X	X
St. Moritz				X
Tignes	X	X
Verbier	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	C	X	X	C	X[N 3]	X

Notes

1. Postponed due to weather and restaged in Kicking Horse.
2. 2 competitions staged due to COVID-19 pandemic calendar impacts.
3. 2 competitions (season opener, season finale) staged due to cancellation of season opener in Baqueira Beret.

Tour champions

By season

Season	Men		Women
	Ski	Snowboard	Ski	Snowboard
2008[36]	Henrik Windstedt	Xavier de Le Rue	Elyse Saugstad	Ruth Leisibach
2009[37]	Aurélien Ducroz	Xavier de Le Rue	Ane Enderud	Susan Mol
2010[38]	Candide Thovex	Xavier de Le Rue	Ane Enderud	Aline Bock
2011[39]	Aurélien Ducroz	Mitch Tölderer	Janette Hargin	Anne-Flore Marxer
2012[40]	Reine Barkered	Jonathan Charlet	Christine Hargin	Maria DeBari
2013[41]	Drew Tabke	Ralph Backstrom	Nadine Wallner	Élodie Mouthon
2014[42]	Loïc Collomb-Patton	Émilien Badoux	Nadine Wallner	Shannan Yates
2015[43]	George Rodney	Jonathan Charlet	Eva Walkner	Estelle Balet
2016[44]	Loïc Collomb-Patton	Sammy Luebke	Eva Walkner	Estelle Balet
2017[45]	Léo Slemett	Sammy Luebke	Lorraine Huber	Marion Haerty
2018	Kristofer Turdell	Sammy Luebke	Arianna Tricomi	Manuela Mandl
2019	Markus Eder	Victor de Le Rue	Arianna Tricomi	Marion Haerty
2020	Isaac Freeland	Nils Mindnich	Arianna Tricomi	Marion Haerty
2021	Kristofer Turdell	Victor de Le Rue	Elisabeth Gerritzen	Marion Haerty
2022[46]	Maxime Chabloz	Blake Moller	Jess Hotter	Tiphanie Perrotin
2023[47]	Valentin Rainer	Ludovic Guillot-Diat	Justine Dufour-Lapointe	Katie Anderson
2024	Max Hitzig	Victor de Le Rue	Hedvig Wessel	Erin Sauve
2025	Marcus Goguen	Victor de Le Rue	Justine Dufour-Lapointe	Noémie Equy

By nationality (2008-2025)

Nation	Championships
France	24
United States	13
Austria	8
Sweden	6
Switzerland	6
Canada	5
Italy	4
Norway	3
Germany	2
New Zealand	1

See also

• Extreme skiing